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I think that if you will use some Human concentrate nutrition powder, like Ensure diluted in some water and forced feed with a syringe, rt will do the work.
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Don't have that....
I'm sure it's uncomfortable for her and painful, but since she's drinking, I would think that internally everything's ok, and if it was more than soft tissue injury (extensive though it is), meaning skeletal/spinal cord, she would not have survived. Meaning that she may not be doing it because it hurts, but you might need to, as Dax says, force the issue and straighten her neck - I may be reading this completely wrong, but she's GOT to eat or she won't heal (including enough to straighten her neck), and (don't know another way to say it), maybe you need to see if you can get her neck closer to the right position even if she doesn't want to or it hurts her.![]()
While trying to figure that out, any thoughts about a higher concentration sugar solution as a brief stop gap while you look at the tubing options? (Since there has been very little to no calorie input for several days now while her body is in a stressful situation that if anything would call for higher calorie needs.) There's not enough in Sav-a-Chick to be significant calorie input for an adult bird, I'm thinking...
Just tossing out ideas, you've probably thought about all of that, and you're the one looking at her/with her. Did you get other input from the duck folks on BYC?
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I've been bugging Ravyn non-stop, lol..... Thanks. I'll think more about it.
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yesss: time to candle!), and Ocap.