Is this wry neck? Came on suddenly. 4 week old runner duckling. Possible injury.

[Waddlewoods]

I posted in the emergency section last night with no luck.

Last night I found my 4 week old runner ducklings had escaped from their enclosure and had been exploring the basement. Upon putting them back I noticed one of them acting funny. Neck bent funny when standing, dazed, sitting a lot, head trembling when sitting and his neck looks swollen. See pic and video.
I took him for a bath and he wasn't very interested. Just floated there somewhat lopsided and stared at the wall. Then cuddled him until 2:30am. He's eating and drinking. I add a vitamin mix to their water and nutritional yeast to their food.
Seems to be the same this morning.

Could he have hurt his neck or possibly ate something when exploring the basement?

 

[Waddlewoods]

Coop is done. My older ducks live in it when they aren't free ranging. I'm in Canada and it's getting down to single digits at night so I was waiting until they were fully feathered to start the introductions.

 

[Kiki]

What exactly have you been feeding it?

 

[Miss Lydia]

It's not wry neck but something is def going on. Have you checked around the basement to see what he may have gotten into?

 

[Waddlewoods]

What exactly have you been feeding it?

They eat a duckling grower with added nutritional yeast. That's it.

 

[Kiki]

They eat a duckling grower with added nutritional yeast. That's it.

Then is is probably not wry neck.

 

[Waddlewoods]

It's not wry neck but something is def going on. Have you checked around the basement to see what he may have gotten into?

There aren't any chemicals or anything but there's lots of potential things it could have swallowed. I found them in an area of the basement that my hubby uses to work so maybe a nail/screw. Could even be a mouse. Who knows.

 

[Waddlewoods]

If you have open stairs he could have reached in to try to get at something and then turned its head wrong and injured his neck trying to get back out.

It's possible. He's actually doing much better now. Standing straight and not sitting anywhere near as often. I suspect maybe he hurt his neck somehow but he's feeling better. Hopefully that's all it is.

 

[Miss Lydia]

You could put some Epsom salt wraps on his neck. Might help with soreness. Take a wash cloth put it into warm water and Epsom salt wring it out so it isn't dripping then place it around his neck.
Great news to hear he is doing better.

 

[Waddlewoods]

Just an update. Stormy is totally fine! After about 24 hrs or so he snapped right out of it.
I've since updated their enclosure so they will not be escaping again and we'll hopefully be moving them to the coop in a week or so.