Not again 😣

[BelovedBirds]

She's still looking pretty good
Tail up, walking around, preening her feathers too

 

[Miss Lydia]

@DuckyDonna put calcium citrate over the oyster shells but they have to eat them to get the extra calcium

here is info on giving a pill to a duck it's not as easy as it sounds unless you know what you are doing.
https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/how-to-give-pills-to-ducks.1246505/

 

[Miss Lydia]

She's still looking pretty good
Tail up, walking around, preening her feathers too

Thats a relief!!

 

[BelovedBirds]

@DuckyDonna put calcium citrate over the oyster shells but they have to eat them to get the extra calcium

here is info on giving a pill to a duck it's not as easy as it sounds unless you know what you are doing.
https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/how-to-give-pills-to-ducks.1246505/

That does look tricky!
Could I not just slip it into a blueberry and get her to eat it? I'm fairly sure she would

 

[Isadora]

That does look tricky!
Could I not just slip it into a blueberry and get her to eat it? I'm fairly sure she would

That would work fine.

 

[DuckyDonna]

@DuckyDonna put calcium citrate over the oyster shells but they have to eat them to get the extra calcium

here is info on giving a pill to a duck it's not as easy as it sounds unless you know what you are doing.
https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/how-to-give-pills-to-ducks.1246505/

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.

 

[BelovedBirds]

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.

I think I'd have to give her the pill whole, just put into some fruit or something-
I use a calcium powder already but she hates the texture/taste of it. I kind of need a way to sneak it in

I think those pills work out 350mg each, would that be too much for one dose?

 

[DuckyDonna]

I think I'd have to give her the pill whole, just put into some fruit or something-
I use a calcium powder already but she hates the texture/taste of it. I kind of need a way to sneak it in

I think those pills work out 350mg each, would that be too much for one dose?

IDK about that. The pills I use are 600 mg but I've never tried giving them a pill whole. They are awfully big.

 

[BelovedBirds]

IDK about that. The pills I use are 600 mg but I've never tried giving them a pill whole. They are awfully big.

Did you use half ground up or?
I think I'll go ahead and order these, will have to see what I can do with them once they get here

 

[BelovedBirds]

I know I'm posting a lot of little updates, but she's behaving really well right now
I'm becoming a little hopeful that she's going to be okay