My Peking duck as a large mass on her chest. Any thoughts?

[Joey8]

That’s great!

Thanks for your feed back. I’m a new duck owner

 

[Joey8]

 

[Isaac 0]

If she appears to be choking or the food doesnt seem to be moving you can try to give her a little olive oil to help loosen things up, or massage her throat a little and see if she vomits (search for threads on "impacted crop" and be mindful of doing this as it can cause her to aspirate (inhale her vomit) and then you've got more problems)

try this first, this is all really good advice! My ducks do get that big with water though, especially if they just happened to be super thirsty at that point in time it doesn’t happen often but it does happen to mine on occasion.

For clarification, birds should rarely if ever be induced to vomit, there is a high chance they will end up aspirating the fluids, also, giving birds oil orally is dangerous as well, they can aspirate easily on the oil and end up getting lipoid pneumonia which is usually fatal. Both are very dangerous procedures.

Sometimes birds crop can get a little full, but in the case that it does, they should be left alone as more handling can do more damage. If the crop isn't clear in the morning, consideration of crop stasis needs to be done.

 

[Joey8]

For clarification, birds should rarely if ever be induced to vomit, there is a high chance they will end up aspirating the fluids, also, giving birds oil orally is dangerous as well, they can aspirate easily on the oil and end up getting lipoid pneumonia which is usually fatal. Both are very dangerous procedures.

Sometimes birds crop can get a little full, but in the case that it does, they should be left alone as more handling can do more damage. If the crop isn't clear in the morning, consideration of crop stasis needs to be done.

Thank you