Missing feathers on stomach? WENT TO THE VET!!! Not good...

[DUCKGIRL89]

I hope she'll be ok?!

 

[mandelyn]

How is she acting that's out of character?

Eating and drinking ok?

 

[featherfinder]

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Sitting down alot and doesnt want to move. She seems really slugish. I have seen her eating but not drinking yet. I checked her legs and everything was fine and she walks normal when i bring her treats but othere than that she lays in the same spot all day long which is really not like her.

 

[featherfinder]

There is more then the last time I looked. I touched one and it was so brittle and broke in half like a twig.

 

[Big Dreamer]

For some reason my mussie ducklings had bladness on there tummies too, when they were compltet fluff balls like that not even close to getting feathers, i think it was because they lay in the same spot that is covered in poo and it got irrated, after i hosed that place down fuzz grew back in less than 3 days..is her cage have any really dirty spots?

 

[iajewel]

I don't see that as a bald tummy.. I think your fine

 

[jdywntr]

I think she is okay. My muscovy looked horrid before they got their feathers in.
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granted they are wet but still VERY bald. My runners NEVER looked like that. In the pic it looks like she still has alot of fuzz, maybe she's just maturing slow.

 

[GrannyCarol]

If she is lethargic and her feathers are poor (though that is an age babies molt into their first adult feathers in all sorts of weird - and sometimes bald - ways), you might look into the possibility of an external parasite. It's not common, but they can pick up bird lice (not transferable to people) from wild birds that pass through the yard, for instance. I'm not an expert on treating that, but look into the possibility, external parasites and really run a duck down and, from what I read, they aren't all that hard to treat.

 

[featherfinder]

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There is dirt spots and there is really grassy spots in their pen. It gets hosed down every couple of days unless it rains. Then the rain does it for me

 

[featherfinder]

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I know this is when she should be molting but she is a micro and is not even half the size she should be or fully feathered on her back yet. All her other feathers that are in look great and normal but these are brittle and dead. I will check for parasites and see if they are there. Everyone keeps saying molt but this doesnt look like a molt at all.