Karen feeling bad

[SolarDuck]

Just keep her hydrated. Is she drinking at all on her own?

It seemed the water bowl was lower this morning indicating she probably did, she sits directly in front of the water bowl but I haven't seen her drink yet I will keep hydrating with pedialyte until I see her take a drink.

 

[Miss Lydia]

I'm giving you this link because it has dose for Baytril on it Post #4
https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/another-bumblefoot-post.1492463/#post-24896429

Let us know tomorrow how she is.

 

[SolarDuck]

I am having trouble sleeping so I went to check on her. Her water bowl looks about 1 inch lower than it was this morning, and she was sitting in a big pile of very watery poop that I cleaned up for her so I think it's safe to assume she is drinking now, but I will continue to keep a close eye on her until I directly see her drinking

 

[Miss Lydia]

I have no doubt at all that you are doing everything you can to help her. Since your tube feeding how is her poop looking.
You may need to tube her more than once a day.

 

[SolarDuck]

I have no doubt at all that you are doing everything you can to help her. Since your tube feeding how is her poop looking.
You may need to tube her more than once a day.

So this morning I got up and her water was almost empty so she definitely was drinking some. The food bowl also looked a decent bit lower than it was when I put it in yesterday. She still would not take mealworms out of my hand, but I took her out of the cage and placed her outside and she got up and slowly waddled right over to the other ducks at the pool and immediately started drinking so she is definitely drinking!!

I'm gonna let her hang with them for a few hours and then try going out with the mealworns to see if she will eat them with the other ducks. I'll take her in again tonight for monitoring and this time I filled rhe food bowl to the brim so I'll definitely be able to tell how much she has eaten.

 

[Miss Lydia]

Very encouraging to hear. Hopefully, you are seeing a turning point.

 

[SolarDuck]

Decided to take a look at chewy for antibiotics just because that other website said it will take 10 days to ship. Are any of these good? A couple of them say bird but I assume fish antibiotics still have the same active ingredients.

 

[MROO]

Since Karen is drinking but you're not sure she's eating, have you tried giving her a slurry or a really thin gruel? That might jump-start her back into eating again, especially now that she's moving a bit.

 

[SolarDuck]

I went out with mealworms and she wouldn't take them from my hand like she usually does, but I threw some in the pool than threw her in the pool and she was happy to start gobbling them up. I'll keep an eye on her today without tube feeding.

 

[SolarDuck]

Since Karen is drinking but you're not sure she's eating, have you tried giving her a slurry or a really thin gruel? That might jump-start her back into eating again, especially now that she's moving a bit.

She already is eating so that is good I might try this out if she isn't eating later today