Help My Pekin duck is bleeding from her vent. Corid doesn’t seem to work.

[Miss Lydia]

Def give the calcium it won’t hurt her to have it. You have everything you need to tube feed?

 

[ThreeHappyDucks]

Def give the calcium it won’t hurt her to have it. You have everything you need to tube feed?

Yes! We gave her a calcium tablet this morning. We just now fed her a watery mix of pellets in a syringe+plastic tubing. We also stopped giving her the vitamin supplements which contained thiamine and possibly could negate the effects of Corid.

 

[Quatie]

Do you have any antibiotics? If you don't, I would consider getting one to just have on hand. If she doesn't improve, that might be worth trying. Depending on where you live you may be able to get antibiotics at TSC or a pet store still. Otherwise, you can get it online.

https://allbirdproducts.com/products/enrofloxacin-10

 

[ThreeHappyDucks]

Do you have any antibiotics? If you don't, I would consider getting one to just have on hand. If she doesn't improve, that might be worth trying. Depending on where you live you may be able to get antibiotics at TSC or a pet store still. Otherwise, you can get it online.

https://allbirdproducts.com/products/enrofloxacin-10

Hi again sorry for the late update. Cheeseballs condition improved significantly. She is able to walk, drink and eat vegetables. This morning she laid a crushed egg with clump of blood stuck within it. We are continuing the calcium supplements and discontinuing the Corid but not sure if any shell fragments in there will still hurt her. This comes as a surprise to us although we feed them crushed oyster shells and coral freely on a daily basis. We also sometimes crush oyster shells by hand for them as a treat.

Attaching some photos of the crushed egg she laid this morning..

 

[Miss Lydia]

Great to hear she has improved. Hopefully keeping up with the calcium will help her lay anything else in there. Are you using Calcium gluconate it’s suppose to help them contract and push the egg out.

 

[ThreeHappyDucks]

Great to hear she has improved. Hopefully keeping up with the calcium will help her lay anything else in there. Are you using Calcium gluconate it’s suppose to help them contract and push the egg out.

We are currently using calcium citrate in pill form (400mg of calcium). We also leave the crushed shells in with her drinking water while shes recovering.

 

[Quatie]

That is great that she is doing better.

This comes as a surprise to us although we feed them crushed oyster shells and coral freely on a daily basis. We also sometimes crush oyster shells by hand for them as a treat.

I offer my ducks oyster shells, but not everyone does a good job eating them. My Pekin especially doesn't eat the oyster shells on her own. I tend to get thinned shelled eggs from her. We feed ours some layer feed on the side and have been administering her extra calcium everyday. Our Pekin is a big extreme because she never took a break from laying and never molted this winter. Even with this extra calcium her eggs are sometimes a bit thin still. Some ducks just require a bit of extra care even when you already doing all the right things.

 

[Quatie]

@ThreeHappyDucks how is your girl doing?

 

[ThreeHappyDucks]

@ThreeHappyDucks how is your girl doing?

She’s doing just fine now! We were very surprised how fast she picked up her appetite. While we treated her indoors we also noticed her bumblefoot was starting to scab off so we peeled off the rest of it, wrapped her up with some Neosporin and isolated her outdoors in the dog pen for a few days before joining her with the rest of the flock. Now shes back to quacking again. Thanks so much for all your helpful tips!

Also, I attached some photos so you can see how well shes doing

 

[Quatie]

That is so great to hear! She looks like a pretty happy duck.