Not again 😣

[BelovedBirds]

I would give her 500 mg.

Okay, may be challenging to get her to take that much but I'll do my best.

With the calcium citrate tablets, would she be okay with a 350mg tablet, perhaps twice daily? Or would I need to break them up and try to get it more exact?

 

[BelovedBirds]

Weigh one teaspoon and let us know how many grams it is.

2g per tsp
So under-dosing her?

 

[BelovedBirds]

Keeping her in tonight for monitoring
She seems fine. But she hasn't laid today so incase she has trouble overnight.... I want her close by.

I have the baby monitor on them so I can wake up a few times and and just check they look okay. I'll check in person once more before I go to bed.
I want to make sure she's okay

 

[BelovedBirds]

I adore these birds. I didn't know they cuddled like this at night

 

[Miss Lydia]

I actually don't put the calcium citrate over the oyster shells.

I put the calcium citrate pills that I smash up over their food if I don't know which duck has the problem. If I do know which duck it is, I'll give that duck a special treat like watermelon or tomatoes with the pill sprinkled over it.

sorry I thought you said over your oyster shell.

 

[Miss Lydia]

That is such a sweet picture.

 

[New duck mommy 2021]

I adore these birds. I didn't know they cuddled like this at night

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Oh my word
How adorable

 

[fluffycrow]

I adore these birds. I didn't know they cuddled like this at night

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They're the CUTEST! And your love for them radiates, hoping she wakes up tomorrow and doesn't have any problems again

 

[Miss Lydia]

@BelovedBirds if you can find one of these to put on the end of a syringe it really helps to get the meds down into the crop. Maybe look online where they sell products for feeding wild baby animals.This is a US company but they may ship to the UK https://www.squirrelsandmore.com/

 

[BelovedBirds]

Well, they're both super happy and active and hungry this morning
One egg, looks like a Dougie egg and it was laid after 5 am as usual for her. So no egg from Sprightly yet... just gave her as much calcium as I could, almost 3 tsp, but she didn't finish it all. I'd say she got 2. I may go out in a little bit when she's hungry again to give her a little more.
But she is behaving normally so perhaps this is a well deserved little break.... we'll see.