Salixx
Songster
I need guidance ASAP.
All six of my 4 week khaki campbells have taken ill. I first noticed they were quieter than normal yesterday but we had storms rolling in and I figured it was that. It may have started earlier but I was nursing a sick dog and also just got my COVID vaccine and got sick from it myself.
Today they weren’t grazing at all, barely eating their feed and only interested in dried soldier fly larvae. Their poop doesn’t have much solid in it and seems whiter than normal. They are drinking but not really trying to clean their nares.
The worst of them was lying away from the others. I went out to get emergency supplies and either the other ducklings or the chickens pecked it’s eye which is bleeding. It is also very raspy and audibly coughs up what sounds like mucus.
I’ve been keeping them in a pen outside with a kiddy pool for the last 1.5 weeks or so. At night I keep them in a dog crate in my greenhouse.
Right now they are in my house in their crate. I have a hea I have a gallon water with ACV and a vitamin/electrolyte mix. I took some of it in a smaller bowl and added some maple syrup to give the sickest and also let all of them take a drink from it. I’ve had the sickest one in my lap because another one kept pecking its eye. I have opened a container of Vicks vapo rub to try to break up some of the congestion (not putting it on the duck).
I’m attaching some videos of them. I can’t afford a vet for all six or probably even one. I am looking for suggestions of what is wrong and what I should do. I’m afraid I’m going to lose them all.
All six of my 4 week khaki campbells have taken ill. I first noticed they were quieter than normal yesterday but we had storms rolling in and I figured it was that. It may have started earlier but I was nursing a sick dog and also just got my COVID vaccine and got sick from it myself.
Today they weren’t grazing at all, barely eating their feed and only interested in dried soldier fly larvae. Their poop doesn’t have much solid in it and seems whiter than normal. They are drinking but not really trying to clean their nares.
The worst of them was lying away from the others. I went out to get emergency supplies and either the other ducklings or the chickens pecked it’s eye which is bleeding. It is also very raspy and audibly coughs up what sounds like mucus.
I’ve been keeping them in a pen outside with a kiddy pool for the last 1.5 weeks or so. At night I keep them in a dog crate in my greenhouse.
Right now they are in my house in their crate. I have a hea I have a gallon water with ACV and a vitamin/electrolyte mix. I took some of it in a smaller bowl and added some maple syrup to give the sickest and also let all of them take a drink from it. I’ve had the sickest one in my lap because another one kept pecking its eye. I have opened a container of Vicks vapo rub to try to break up some of the congestion (not putting it on the duck).
I’m attaching some videos of them. I can’t afford a vet for all six or probably even one. I am looking for suggestions of what is wrong and what I should do. I’m afraid I’m going to lose them all.
. How are the others? Let me see if i can find info on giving Amoxocillin
