Hi All,
I have been researching this for more than 4 days which is when I first noticed her behavior and now I would love your feedback. Maybe there is something I am missing. The duck in question is a 5 month old Aylesbury/Pekin mix (a TSC mutt duck) who is eating and drinking fine and seems relatively normal until she preens herself. Then she seem s to loose her sense of balance almost as if she was drunk. I've spent hours watching her to see if there is any other symptoms and the only other thing I see is that she contracts her wings (for air movement) more than my other ducks. We have been in a heat wave here with temps 90+ for over 4 days and before that we have had a very wet summer. Other than the above symptoms she does not seem to be getting worse but does not seem to be improving either.
What I've done so far: I'm making sure there is no stagnant water anywhere in my yard. I am also changing their water every 2 hours. I've been giving all of my ducks additional frozen and fresh peas to monitor her appetite. I've also added brewers yeast to their layer feed for more niacin. I've checked her for being egg bound, checked for mites, worms and injuries. I made sure she was swallowing and eating properly. I just read today that Aylesbury ducks could suffer from a vitamin e deficiency so I just started giving her a vitamin e supplement. To make sure their feed wasn't the problem I completely replaced it with a new bag of layena Lay pellets. I have three other ducks who are symptom free.
I am trying to find a vet in my area but have not been successful. I'm thinking it could be a bacterial or fungus infection such as botulism but everything I've read gave a symptom of not being able to swallow which she has no problem doing. She does not have labored breathing although all of my ducks are panting from the heat.
I'd appreciate any feed back. I'd hate to find out that I missed something.
Thank you for reading and sorry for my long windedness.
Jay
I have been researching this for more than 4 days which is when I first noticed her behavior and now I would love your feedback. Maybe there is something I am missing. The duck in question is a 5 month old Aylesbury/Pekin mix (a TSC mutt duck) who is eating and drinking fine and seems relatively normal until she preens herself. Then she seem s to loose her sense of balance almost as if she was drunk. I've spent hours watching her to see if there is any other symptoms and the only other thing I see is that she contracts her wings (for air movement) more than my other ducks. We have been in a heat wave here with temps 90+ for over 4 days and before that we have had a very wet summer. Other than the above symptoms she does not seem to be getting worse but does not seem to be improving either.
What I've done so far: I'm making sure there is no stagnant water anywhere in my yard. I am also changing their water every 2 hours. I've been giving all of my ducks additional frozen and fresh peas to monitor her appetite. I've also added brewers yeast to their layer feed for more niacin. I've checked her for being egg bound, checked for mites, worms and injuries. I made sure she was swallowing and eating properly. I just read today that Aylesbury ducks could suffer from a vitamin e deficiency so I just started giving her a vitamin e supplement. To make sure their feed wasn't the problem I completely replaced it with a new bag of layena Lay pellets. I have three other ducks who are symptom free.
I am trying to find a vet in my area but have not been successful. I'm thinking it could be a bacterial or fungus infection such as botulism but everything I've read gave a symptom of not being able to swallow which she has no problem doing. She does not have labored breathing although all of my ducks are panting from the heat.
I'd appreciate any feed back. I'd hate to find out that I missed something.
Thank you for reading and sorry for my long windedness.
Jay