In my topic about an egg laying concern i wrote about how i was worried about my duckie... One of them has not been laying every day like the other. I was getting concerned about their well being... Well today i figured out what was up...
As i've said before, my ducks are spoiled. Their are more so pets than a utility animal. They have two pens in my art studio and they have a big pen in my sunroom/patio that's next to the sliding door to the outside. They move around the house often and get to wear diaper harnesses so they don't make messes on the floor.
Well, today i let the ducks down stairs in their harnesses while i watched the inaguration. When I went to take the harnesses off, i found a horrible discovery... There was busted up egg yoke/whites in the harness mixed with some poop. I freaked out thinking my poor duckie is egg bound. I had to call about 15 vets/animal clinics before i found one that treated ducks. I had to call my finance's law school so they could tell him to come home to take us to the vet. While i waited for him to come home, i used a turkey bastor to squirt some water up in the hole to wash out any extra egg yoke. We rushed our duckies over and had them looked at immediately. They were examined and we were given some antiboitics for Victor.
When we got home my fiance discovered that we got two eggs this morning and that one of them didn't have a shell... just the soft membrane and some specks of shell... I later came to find out my fiance forgot to mix oyster shell into the feed mix in our container.... that they've been eating out of for the past week and a half... ugh....
anyways, they are eating a huge heap of food/grit/oyster shell currently and seem okay. they weren't stressed, though they are currently very mad that they got a "physical exam". Yep the doctor stuck his fingers right on up there and felt around a bit. So i'm off to the store to buy applesause to mix the antiboitic in and they reccommended that they eat kale. I'll keep you guys updated...
Of course this comes two days before we are expecting our new baby duckies...
As i've said before, my ducks are spoiled. Their are more so pets than a utility animal. They have two pens in my art studio and they have a big pen in my sunroom/patio that's next to the sliding door to the outside. They move around the house often and get to wear diaper harnesses so they don't make messes on the floor.
Well, today i let the ducks down stairs in their harnesses while i watched the inaguration. When I went to take the harnesses off, i found a horrible discovery... There was busted up egg yoke/whites in the harness mixed with some poop. I freaked out thinking my poor duckie is egg bound. I had to call about 15 vets/animal clinics before i found one that treated ducks. I had to call my finance's law school so they could tell him to come home to take us to the vet. While i waited for him to come home, i used a turkey bastor to squirt some water up in the hole to wash out any extra egg yoke. We rushed our duckies over and had them looked at immediately. They were examined and we were given some antiboitics for Victor.
When we got home my fiance discovered that we got two eggs this morning and that one of them didn't have a shell... just the soft membrane and some specks of shell... I later came to find out my fiance forgot to mix oyster shell into the feed mix in our container.... that they've been eating out of for the past week and a half... ugh....
anyways, they are eating a huge heap of food/grit/oyster shell currently and seem okay. they weren't stressed, though they are currently very mad that they got a "physical exam". Yep the doctor stuck his fingers right on up there and felt around a bit. So i'm off to the store to buy applesause to mix the antiboitic in and they reccommended that they eat kale. I'll keep you guys updated...
Of course this comes two days before we are expecting our new baby duckies...
