Help! Ducks attacked by mink!

[duluthralphie]

Birds have pretty elastic crops. I think DUX are birds..but some of us have them classified as predators, so I am not 100% sure...

I am glad your Dux is doing okay. I have a nephew with w pet rattlesnake so I understand people liking weird animals...

We can't all be 100% normal like me....

 

[casportpony]

I feel like I can up the dose maybe to 50mL of food. I had been doing 35-40 for the last couple. Do duck crops and stomachs shrink the way mammal stomachs do after a while without food?

I'm not sure, maybe?, but what I know is that sick birds are more likely to vomit than non-sick birds, which is why I start by tubing 2-3% of their body weight (2-3 ml per 100 grams of body weight) and gradually increase as they can tolerate. Tubing Carmella was complicated by her inability to hold her head up, which is why I suggested you hold her after tubing, which would allow the food/fluids time to clear the crop rather than siphon back out from her holding her head too low.

 

[Lukemjm]

I'm not sure, maybe?, but what I know is that sick birds are more likely to vomit than non-sick birds, which is why I start by tubing 2-3% of their body weight (2-3 ml per 100 grams of body weight) and gradually increase as they can tolerate. Tubing Carmella was complicated by her inability to hold her head up, which is why I suggested you hold her after tubing which would allow the food/fluids time to clear the crop rather than siphon back out from her hold her head too low.

Ok thanks. She's been doing well with increased volume of fluids (~45mL), and she has been holding her head up by herself almost all day. Her next dose of food, I'll try to make a little bigger than the last few.

 

[Lukemjm]

Gregory ate some of his favorite treats all by himelf! (Dried mealworms)
So glad to see him eat something, even though they have almost no nutritional value lol.
And Carmella tried to eat some! She still has pretty bad aim, but she was splashing around in the water and drinking some even!

 

[casportpony]

Gregory ate some of his favorite treats all by himelf! (Dried mealworms)
So glad to see him eat something, even though they have almost no nutritional value lol.
And Carmella tried to eat some! She still has pretty bad aim, but she was splashing around in the water and drinking some even!

That is great excellent news!

 

[duluthralphie]

Gregory ate some of his favorite treats all by himelf! (Dried mealworms)
So glad to see him eat something, even though they have almost no nutritional value lol.
And Carmella tried to eat some! She still has pretty bad aim, but she was splashing around in the water and drinking some even!

Did you happen to "get" the mink?

I might have missed it if you did.

 

[Lukemjm]

Did you happen to "get" the mink?

I might have missed it if you did.

Nope, no luck yet.

 

[Lukemjm]

Gregory ate some of his favorite treats all by himelf! (Dried mealworms)
So glad to see him eat something, even though they have almost no nutritional value lol.
And Carmella tried to eat some! She still has pretty bad aim, but she was splashing around in the water and drinking some even!

Carmella ate a couple! She is still very tired and rediculously clumsy(more so than ducks already are) and it's hard for her to chew, but she swallowed a couple mealworms. Going to offer them more treats soon. Veggies and things!

 

[CrystaBub]

That is the greatest news!

 

[Miss Lydia]

Awesome to hear!!!