I found my sweet duck, dead in there pool!

[littlehenny]

When I went to let the girls out this morning, I found Trina, my runner cross hen acting a little odd. I watched her for a while, she got in the pool and stayed there until I got it filled. This was unusual, they usually wait until I get it half way filled anyway. The others acted fine went about the business of drinking and eating, and snooping around for bugs and such. Trina wouldn't leave the pool. Trina was drinking large amounts of water. Sami, my other runner cross acted odd the other morning she stayed in the pool acting like she was trying to maybe pass an egg or something. Well, she squirted real big, and then went to the nest box. I left and went back later, Sami acted fine, and I gathered 2 eggs out of the nest box. I don't think they were both from Sami. Anyway, do you think Trina could have been egg bound? I have found an egg in the pool before, is this common? I am really worried, any suggestions or ideas!

 

[bock]

She may have been egg bound, I am VERY sorry for your loss.

 

[chickboss]

I am sorry for your loss.

 

[newchickmom09]

Could have been. Do you have oyster shell available at all times for your girls?

 

[duckyfromoz]

So sorry for your loss. So unexpected- and sudden.

 

[chickensioux]

Without a necropsy you will never know. So, so sorry for your loss.

 

[PlumTuckered]

I am so very sorry that you lost your Gal :-( I'm afraid I have no idea what may have been wrong with her.
I have one Jumbo Pekin Hen who will act funny every couple of months, she'll not come out of the pond at supper time, just float there drinking as much as she can. When she does this I coax her out with frozen peas (she can't resist them), carry her to the Pen and feed her a bowl of scrambled eggs with brewers yeast tablets crushed on top. She loves them almost as much as her peas and usually within an hour she's her normal bouncy self. I have no idea why this happens only to her, my ducks get fresh greens every day along with their floating fish food and free access to oyster shells and layer pellets. I find it very puzzling.

Michelle

 

[lovesduckies]

omg i am VERY sorry for your loss

 

[J.R. Pigman]

Oh I'm sorry, thats terrible. Do you poison mice around your house? Ducks will eat mice, given the opportunity, and the drinking large amounts of water part is consistent with mouse and rat poison.