just hatched call duck with his head tilted back

[mlssas]

Ok, my last call duck just hatched today. The baby keeps it head tilted back all the time causing him to do back flips when he moves. If I try and hold him so his head is at the correct angel, he fights it and then sleeps for a second. is their anything i can do to retrain the neck? Please help.

 

[mlssas]

Any help, please

 

[DarkWolf]

See this post for someone else who had a duckling with wry neck.

https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?pid=5373573

May or may not help. Your holding his neck at the "right angle" may be causing pressure on his wind pipe and may be causing him to pass out due to lack of oxygen.

I'm sure others will chime in with more info and thoughts.

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[duckyfromoz]

I have been told that a thiamine deficiency will have these symptoms. Get the duckling some vitamins- a multivitamin is ok as you are unlikely to find any for poultry that is just thiamine or B group. Often it is the last one to hatch I find these kind of issues with when hatching Indian Runners.

 

[mlssas]

Thank you for your posts.

I've been dropper feeding it Save A Chick vitamin supplement since I found it this morning. She has gotten a little better, now she can run forward a little bit kinda like a runner duck. When she sits down her bill is still up in the air with her head resting on her back. she also continues to do back flips when she is excited or trying to drink from the dropper. I hope it makes it, it is quite a spunky little things. I'm just worried about it not being able to eat as it cannot put its head down properly.

 

[mlssas]

day two and no real changes. Does anyone else have any ideas? Please, It's heart breaking to watch it do back flips and flop around.

 

[binza1979]

My mallard duckling would flip her head back so hard that he would flip over. I got some brewers yeast and supplemented with that and vitamins in her water. It took a couple of weeks, but she stopped flipping. She still throws her head back more than my other ducks do when she drinks, but other than that, you'd never know that she had any issues as a small duckling.

Good luck!