My Love Affair With Ducks...

[WannaBeHillBilly]

Good morning Duck Lovers. My babies have a full belly (or crop) and down for a nap now.
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It is now time for my “Concern of the Day.”
Twinkle, the puny Saxony will not take her vitamin B. I let it slowly enter her mouth, but it just leaks right out the other side of her bill.

She is eating, drinking and pooping, but still spends more time under the heat than the others. She still looks 100% better than she did as far a balance, coordination, etc. I know, I should have weighed them when I received them, but...dang hindsight is 20/20.

However, I did weigh them all this morning, so today will be my starting point, so to speak.

Twinkle weighs the least (of course) at 1.92 oz. And again, the Saxony breed may be a smaller breed. IDK

Quinny, WH, comes in at 1.96 oz. To look at them the WH looks smaller than the Saxony.

Hershey, Choc Runner, 2.12 oz.
Latte, F/W Runner, 2.44 oz.
Peaches, BO, 2.97 oz.
Petey the Pig, White Layer, 3.15 oz.

They are 4 days old.

I have put the Vitamin B on boiled egg yolk and of course they all gobble it up, whereas the puny just nibbles it. Any ideas on how to successfully get the meds in her, or is she progressing okay enough to assume she is receiving enough?

Thoughts?
Hugs?
Slaps upside the head?


Thanks y’all!

You Americans with your Ounces, Gallons and feet!
No clue what 1.92oz means and i'm too busy to ask my friend google…
My Spring Ducklings had to sit in a bowl on the scale every single day and they hated it!
You can find the table with their incredible weight gain here:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet...Ma9PCzFAQx09eoTrtiOrZp1m4k/edit#gid=915667380But i used the world standard weight unit of gram, so you may have to do some math…

For the Vitamin B complex: I would just dissolve some into their drinking water. - Yes, a lot will be wasted this way, but everybody will get some this way.
Another way is sweet potato puree with Vitamin B complex. The sweet taste of the potatoes masks everything and even the colour matches.

 

[WannaBeHillBilly]

Looks like one.. I didn’t mean orally.


I have no idea of dosage. But a tad under the skin with thin needle is what I was implying.

I bet you'd something like this in your mind:

 

[duluthralphie]

I bet you'd something like this in your mind:
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That’s my doctors nurse... she always uses that size needle on me!

 

[Sapphire Sebright]

If you're injecting niacin, then that's presumably a pretty large dose. If one is injecting any vitamin... that's quite a lot, unless the solution is diluted.
Anyway, sorry about getting so riled -- I tend to worry about health-related stuff, and overdoses of vitamins can have some bad effects.
Sorry again. I'll let it go now.

 

[WannaBeHillBilly]

That’s my doctors nurse... she always uses that size needle on me!

I need a medication injected every two weeks, guess what: I can't get it now because every medical facility here is reserved for that stupid virus, so Wifie bought some syringes yesterday…

 

[duluthralphie]

Beings the niacin she bought is injectable it should have a dosage on it...

but for a bird weighing under two ounces it is most likely going to be a very minute amount.

I have the same bottle in my coop, I could go look, but I am waiting for my Johnny Cake to come out of the oven and kind of lazy so not in a walk to the coop mood.

 

[Sapphire Sebright]

Oh, she's injecting the bird with niacin? I thought that she was injecting herself with niacin... oops. I guess that I got confused. Heheh, silly stupid me.

 

[WannaBeHillBilly]

Oh, she's injecting the bird with niacin? I thought that she was injecting herself with niacin... oops. I guess that I got confused. Heheh, silly stupid me.

B4 i gave the Niacin to my Spring Ducklings last year i tried it myself: Took about ½ gram in a cup of tea - Niacin tastes like Vitamin C. About 30 Minutes later i was glowing and my skin was itching. Went outside half naked to cool off (February!) and the snow melted 5 meters around me…
Don't know if duckies have the same reaction, some nights there was a strange light over the brooder in my office…
As with Vitamin C, you (almost!) can't overdose using common sense.

 

[duluthralphie]

B4 i gave the Niacin to my Spring Ducklings last year i tried it myself: Took about ½ gram in a cup of tea - Niacin tastes like Vitamin C. About 30 Minutes later i was glowing and my skin was itching. Went outside half naked to cool off (February!) and the snow melted 5 meters around me…
Don't know if duckies have the same reaction, some nights there was a strange light over the brooder in my office…
As with Vitamin C, you (almost!) can't overdose using common sense.

I think you got your acids mixed up...

 

[Miss Lydia]

What is NY?

Nutritional yeast