Help! Has anyone ever seen their duck behave this way?

[Duckalicious]

Good morning! My Welsh harlequin duck is acting very peculiar. It might just be something I've never seen before, but I'm almost afraid she might have eaten something and it got stuck. I'm going to try to post a video short clip, but a description and brief is she is fanning her tail out and it's , I don't believe she's in heat. It looks like she's trying to push something out. She did lay an egg about 5 minutes ago. But she's just standing on one leg and staring and trembling. It's definitely not her usual behavior. If anybody can advise that would be tremendously helpful thank you.

 

[EvaRay1525]

Getting a video will help. I have Muscovy ducks and they fan out their tail a lot but I haven't seen them stand on one leg while doing it. It might be normal but I am not sure... new to ducks lol

 

[HomesteaderWife]

I will second that a video will be a great help in understanding the behavior.

 

[Duckalicious]

https://photos.app.goo.gl/PpUiq6LhDLEGosXK8

 

[Duckalicious]

I will second that a video will be a great help in understanding the behavior.

https://photos.app.goo.gl/PpUiq6LhDLEGosXK8

Are you able to view it through this link?

 

[fatty and friends]

she’s egg bound, fill a tub with warm water and epsom salt and let her sit in it for awhile

 

[Duckalicious]

she’s egg bound, fill a tub with warm water and epsom salt and let her sit in it for awhile

Really? 5 minutes or less than I shot that clip, she laid a perfectly good egg.

 

[Bigtom Turkey]

If she just laid then she is not egg bound.

 

[SolarDuck]

she could still be trying to push out another soft shelled egg or something, when my girl Pigeon was having egg laying issues she would push out one then immediately start struggling to push out another.

 

[Duckalicious]

I was wondering the same thing, if maybe there was another one in there she was struggling with. I put her in the pond by herself for a while and she seems to be right back to her normal self again. Looks like I need to put out an extra bowl of oyster shells. Thank you everyone for your feedback, it was so helpful!