Ok great listen about the vitamin B complex. Yes, it does say injectable for cattle. However, we give it to ducks orally. We draw up one ML with a syringe with no needle. Then we squirted into a small dish of mealworms or some other treat. Yes yes that’s right. We know she will gobble up. If she doesn’t eat the treat with the vitamins, we can give it to her directly orally. There is a link on how to give medicine to ducks. I will paste it for you. You have to be very careful not to squirt it into their breathing tube.
Keep giving her one amount every day until the symptoms go away, and it may take months because she has had them for so long.
Agreed she’s a beauty. I have a male duck and a female duck. The chickens and ducks are together, but the chickens don’t mess with my ducks. Both the ducks considerably outweigh the chickens (about 30 chickens now -1 rooster). They all get along fairly well except the usual hen pecking hierarchy which can be stressful at times when someone decided they should move up the ladder. Hens are vicious at times.!But I love them all!
Plus 4 cats and 2 kittens. It’s always an adventure on our lil farm. Good luck, Stella!
I talked to you in January about my white peking duck, Stella. She had trouble walking and stopped laying eggs. You gave me the great advice to give her vitamin b complex for niacin deficiency. She seems much better and is now laying eggs again. Her feet are still turning in some, but she seems to walk better and not be in so much pain. She has been panting lately when not in her pool even though the temperature is only in the 70s. I was wondering if I should continue the vitamin b complex for a while longer. I am also wondering if she is a little overweight. It seems hard for her to get in and out of her pool even with a flat brick on the outside to step on. When I took her to the vet before, he didn't say either way. I usually give her all the grain she wants with two tablespoons of meal worms and about two tablespoons of scratch grain in the morning. In the afternoon she gets a little bit of lettuce, cabbage and 4 slices of banana. Sometimes I add bits of tomato. Is this too much? I read that lettuce has niacin in it. Thanks for all your help!