Help my poor ducky wont eat

[jillywilly]

I really don't know what to do! I have an epileptic duck who was attacked by a rooster and I didn't know if that's what caused my duck to stop eating. I started feeding her mashed up pellets through a syringe. she won't even eat her favorite foods or with her siblings. I am also worried about her epilepsy with her not eating; I'm afraid she's getting weaker.If anyone can help me I'd greatly appreciate it.

 

[Sgtfirstwife]

Since I raise chickens, take this advice with a grain of salt. When my chickens are hurt, I separate them, try to keep them quiet. I also give them sugar water or poly vitamins. I worry more about hydration then I do food. I sure that someone else on here has better advice ducks info than me.hope it makes it.......

 

[CMV]

Give us the following information. The more you tell us, the better we will be able to help you.

1) What type of bird , age and weight (does the chicken seem or feel lighter or thinner than the others.)
2) What is the behavior, exactly.
3) How long has the bird been exhibiting symptoms?
4) Are other birds exhibiting the same symptoms?
5) Is there any bleeding, injury, broken bones or other sign of trauma.
6) What happened, if anything that you know of, that may have caused the situation.
7) What has the bird been eating and drinking, if at all.
8) How does the poop look? Normal? Bloody? Runny? etc.
9) What has been the treatment you have administered so far?
10 ) What is your intent as far as treatment? For example, do you want to treat completely yourself, or do you need help in stabilizing the bird til you can get to a vet?
11) If you have a picture of the wound or condition, please post it. It may help.
12) Describe the housing/bedding in use

I am thinking your duck is not eating because of bigger problems than just a roo attack. The epilepsy is indicative of larger overall issues.

 

[jillywilly]

The answers to your questions are in the following:
1. My bird is a female Pekin duck. She is about three months old and after the incident she has shown signs of weight loss but not traumatically, but she did use to be the second largest of my three ducks.
2. Her behavior is slowly returning back to normal by that I mean the way she acted before the incident and her first epilepsy attack. She does seem to be slower than the other ducks.
3. My bird has been expiating symptoms for about a week or so…
4. Absolutely none of the other birds are showing any of the symptoms.
5. The signs of trauma are scabs from under the wings from her epilepsy attacks, an eye she tends to keep close for some reason (I think that’s getting better though), and a messed up beak from the roo attacking her, it’s pretty much held though and it wasn’t that serious of an injury.
6. Like I said the only reasons I could think of that caused the situation is the attack and the epilepsy, which I think is the real issue, I’ve never had an epileptic duck.
7. My duck from what I have seen has been drinking normal amounts of water, as much as it should be no more no less, the only food that I’ve seen it eat is the mashed up pellets through a syringe but I can understand why she didn’t want to eat that, no duck likes being force fed.
8. The poop where to start…. Well at first it was dark green and really runny almost basically like water. Today the poop is still very runny but it was a light green color.
9. The only treatment administered so far is keeping it inside and out of the heat, until it was strong enough, it also missed its siblings, I’ve tried raw apple cider vinegar in the water; which it drank, and giving it food through a syringe. I didn’t know what else I could do to get her to eat other that try giving her, her favorite foods, which didn’t really work.
10. I’m pretty much trying to help my bird by myself but if need be I would take her to the vet.
11. I don’t currently have any pictures of the wound itself because it’s very hard to keep my bird calm enough to take a picture of under her wings.
12. The ducks sleep in a protected run usually under the coop because it was custom built on stilts. I also usually check on them at night before I go to sleep myself.

Thank you very much for responding to my post I only want the very best for my ducky I love it very much.

Ps. I think she is feeling better today because she put up more of a fight when being fed.

 

[CMV]

I would take her to the vet if that is an option for you. She is going to need to get those seizures under control. Only medication can do that. I think the roo attack is not the issue, but rather the epilepsy.

I hope you figure out what is going on with her. Good luck.