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Hi I have had a search through the threads and I can't find something specific, so I'm going to ask.
I have an old muscovy duck, she is 14 and has been completely lame for 7 years, but until this pint has always maintained good health and a steady weight.
Until last week when she stopped eating and was vomiting yellow bile like vomit for two days. She seemed to perk up on the Monday, and stopped vomiting and began eating and seeming normal again by the Monday night. I took her to the only avian vet I could find around here anyway, but couldn't get an appointment till Wednesday, by which time she seemed fine again and he couldn't find anything wrong with her. I wondered if she may have just had a bad reaction to some raw pet meat she had managed to snatch out of one of the dog bowls.
However yesterday it became very clear that she has fluid in her lungs, she doesn't have overtly gurgly breathing but she has a bit of a cough, I can hear the wheezyness, and when she tries to peep it sounds like she is underwater. She also coughs and has a little fluid in her nostrils when I tried to tip her up to see if it would help her to puke some of it out.
I actually don't know if holding her head down and letting it drain is a good thing to do, it just seemed to me it might help.
So I have called the vet's to try and get a script for something to help her, but they can't even reach the avian vet now, he doesn't work all the time.
I know from past experience that they can go downhill pretty fast with fluid in the lungs, so I want to know do any of you have experience treating an old duck with fluid in the lungs?
Would an antibiotic help?
If it would I can start treating her myself since the vets don't seem in any hurry.
Is tipping her up to let her lungs drain a good idea?
I really don't want to lose her, I have had her 14 years (since she was an egg)
I have an old muscovy duck, she is 14 and has been completely lame for 7 years, but until this pint has always maintained good health and a steady weight.
Until last week when she stopped eating and was vomiting yellow bile like vomit for two days. She seemed to perk up on the Monday, and stopped vomiting and began eating and seeming normal again by the Monday night. I took her to the only avian vet I could find around here anyway, but couldn't get an appointment till Wednesday, by which time she seemed fine again and he couldn't find anything wrong with her. I wondered if she may have just had a bad reaction to some raw pet meat she had managed to snatch out of one of the dog bowls.
However yesterday it became very clear that she has fluid in her lungs, she doesn't have overtly gurgly breathing but she has a bit of a cough, I can hear the wheezyness, and when she tries to peep it sounds like she is underwater. She also coughs and has a little fluid in her nostrils when I tried to tip her up to see if it would help her to puke some of it out.
I actually don't know if holding her head down and letting it drain is a good thing to do, it just seemed to me it might help.
So I have called the vet's to try and get a script for something to help her, but they can't even reach the avian vet now, he doesn't work all the time.
I know from past experience that they can go downhill pretty fast with fluid in the lungs, so I want to know do any of you have experience treating an old duck with fluid in the lungs?
Would an antibiotic help?
If it would I can start treating her myself since the vets don't seem in any hurry.
Is tipping her up to let her lungs drain a good idea?
I really don't want to lose her, I have had her 14 years (since she was an egg)