Help! How to give pills

[Runner duck mom]

I don’t have small hands and that antibiotic my Runner was taking was pretty good size. I use the needless 1 ml syringes to give liquid meds. Is this one about that size? Only problem I’ve had so far was giving baby aspirin they are so tiny it’s Nerve wracking making sure my hand holds onto the pill long enough to get it in the right hole. So that might work great for those tiny baby aspirin.

Their little mouths are just so small. It's about the same diameter as the 1ml syringes, maybe a little bigger but not much. Longer than syringes too, about 6 or 8 inches long, baby asprin would probably fit perfectly

 

[Miss Lydia]

Thanks I think I’ll order a couple to put in my med chest. Appreciate the info. I need dental chews for my dogs too!

 

[Miss Lydia]

Well so much for that one it's not available. I'll have a look at the others they offer.

 

[Runner duck mom]

My duck was on antibiotics 2 pills, 2x a day for 2 weeks! I broke the pills up into 1/4s, the peas worked well for a bit, and worked best when they were slightly frozen and I would drop them into his water. But he became wise to the pills and got picky with that, so then I switched to grape tomatoes which was a real game changer! I cut them in 1/2 and then stuffed the pill in the little natural pocket of the tomato and he would gobble them up He was also on a liquid metacam, and I would squirt that into the tomatoes too which worked well.
My vet gave me a piller like shared above but I knew he would hate me if I constantly tried to stick him with the piller so I found an alternative that made med time fun! For him anyways, it was a huge pain for me

Two weeks sure does feel like forever when you're giving meds twice a day, I've been there as well. So glad you were able to make it easy and fun for your duck and hopefully he made a full recovery
I sure lost a bit of trust when we had to give liquid meds to our girl and worked hard to gain it back once she was better (thank goodness for tomatoes and peas!).
Just hang on to that handy little piller, our duck had stopped eating for a while and even her favorite treats wouldn't work. Good to have and hopefully you never need it

 

[aart]

I had an avian vet tech once tell me to lubricate tablets with edible oil, like olive or flax, to help it slide down easier. So I dab a small drop on the end of the tablet first

I usually just spit on them (when giving pills to dogs)
But, yeah, some lube definitely helps.

 

[AltonaAcres]

I'm not sure about ducks, but with chickens, I just break up the pill (they are actually more like tablets) and mix the pieces into a handful of scratch. The pieces of tablet look a lot like pieces of corn so my chickens eat it easily.

 

[DuckyDonna]

@Miss Lydia know how!

 

[katiebrock]

Good luck. I have not had to do this yet. I wonder if giving pills to ducks or children is harder!

 

[Miss Lydia]

It looks small to hold a pill or capsule but I guess it isn’t. Be worth ordering with how low the price is

 

[Runner duck mom]

The rubber bit at the end will hold a tiny pill well. Not a capsule or full size human pill.
We have clients who often have these for medicating their cats but find it easier to just give the pill by hand for cats...but its about the same size as the syringes we have used to give liquid meds to our ducks.
We've always had either liquid meds for our ducks or supplements powdered onto treats but have never had to give pills.
Their mouths are so tiny it may make it easier especially if you don't have small hands.