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[Fancychooklady]

I just read some reviews for the Dumor starter and it looks like someone else had problems with their ducklings as well, it sounds like it could be a niacin deficiency, which can cause neurological problems (like seizures, which seems like what your ducks are having) I would get some plain (not no-flush or timed-release, just plain niacin) niacin capsules or brewers yeast, which you can find at natural food stores. it's recommended to give them 100-150 mg of niacin per gallon of water, if using brewers yeast I believe it's about a tablespoon per duck on their feed everyday, I'm not positive, though as I use the capsules.

I have a mallard that was having seizures but hers wasn't a deficiency, I think it was some weird disorder, that she grew out of. But since you are having multiple ducks doing it, I'd say it's more likely to be a deficiency. I hope your ducklings better soon, it's very disturbing to watch them having these "episodes"!

I think you are confusing niacin B3 with thiamine, B1.

 

[enola]

I don't like to knock any products....... But I have had problems every single time I have used Dumor feeds. My hens do not lay well when I feed it to them. And chicks just don't grow when eating it either.

 

[Fancychooklady]

I have ten 6 week old ducks. Today i found one, neck arched backwards and legs stiff in the brooder. Helped him up and he trembled for a minute and walked off like nothing happened.

I just walked back a a DIFFERENT duck did the same thing.

What is going on?! They are eating and drinking (dumor starter/grower) . Poop is really liquid today. Had some salad greens yesterday.

I literally just culled four chicks an hour ago because of poor development. Please tell me i can fix this and nit have to cull my ducks.

Read the section on botulism. As miss Lydia said I would get the activated charcoal or Epsom salts ( magnesium sulphate ) and flesh them out. Mouldy feed can be toxic.

edis.ifas.ufl.edu /ps044

 

[Fancychooklady]

http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/ps044
Sorry try this.

 

[Miss Lydia]

I don't like to knock any products....... But I have had problems every single time I have used Dumor feeds. My hens do not lay well when I feed it to them. And chicks just don't grow when eating it either.

If I'm not mistaken someone posted a while back that Dumor had a recall, anyone else hear this?

 

[Fancychooklady]

This one explains the effects on poultry with vitamin deficiency.

http://www.merckmanuals.com/vet/pou..._poultry/vitamin_deficiencies_in_poultry.html

 

[Troll]

I have 19 chickens eating from the same bag with absokutely no issue-its not moldy feed.

 

[Fancychooklady]

I have 19 chickens eating from the same bag with absokutely no issue-its not moldy feed.

I wasn't implying that the feed is mouldy, just using that as an example of possible cause of botulism.

 

[Fancychooklady]

If I'm not mistaken someone posted a while back that Dumor had a recall, anyone else hear this? 

I don't know, but it seems like they had quite a few issues in 2012.