OMG! I think i killed all my ducks! HELP!

[WannaBeHillBilly]

I wondered about that myself, but they got sick immediately upon ingesting them?

They were just stuffing the hoppers in, like kids in a candy-store, then with little warning everything came back out…

 

[WannaBeHillBilly]

This is the first time I've heard of activated charcoal and just looked it up. (After following various posts on her I feel like I should get a medicine cabinet together for my chickens.) I'm curious how you give this to the chickens. Do you put it in their water or food?

Easy with ducks:

• Grab duck and ignore loud protest
• Take pill into your left hand
• Take bill into your right hand and force it open
• Slide pill along the upper bill at the right side (seen from your perspective!) down to the throat and push it down.
• Count your fingers before releasing the duck.
• Let the duck drink some water, you need something stronger…

 

[ValerieJ]

Easy with ducks:

• Grab duck and ignore loud protest
• Take pill into your left hand
• Take bill into your right hand and force it open
• Slide pill along the upper bill at the right side (seen from your perspective!) down to the throat and push it down.
• Count your fingers before releasing the duck.
• Let the duck drink some water, you need something stronger…

Thanks for the answer. I only have chickens. Is this something I can use for them?

 

[ValerieJ]

you need something stronger…

I just saw this.

 

[WannaBeHillBilly]

I just saw this.

Hey i'm in HillBilly MoonShine county! - Neighbors asked me what i'm planning to do with my empty barn…

 

[Cryss]

Following with positive vibes being sent your way.

 

[WannaBeHillBilly]

Following with positive vibes being sent your way.

Thank you very much.

 

[Aunt Angus]

Good grief, HillBilly - you do get into some... interesting situations! Poor duckies! I hope everything "comes out" okay....


ETA: A quick internet search shows that there are toxic grasshoppers out in the world, apparently.

 

[WannaBeHillBilly]

Late night update: Just came out of the shower when the ducks started screaming out of the top of their lungs! - Limpy! - He was cramping and flapping his wings violently. I held him and he vomited again! Charcoal and grashoppers…
Then he looked at me, rasped and wanted down, walked to the waterer and drank as if he just walked through a desert, rasped at me again and went straight to bed.
And Blanca Duck pooped and it smelled so bad, i swear i saw flies dying in mid air!
Everybody seems to do better, they all quacked at me, moved around a bit got up and drank some water.
Looks like the revenge of the grashopper is postponed for now.

 

[RhodeIslandRed5]

Grasshoppers must taste candy to birds. They must be to them what french fries are to me. My girls LOOOOOVVVVE them to no end! As a matter of fact, my sweet baby hasn't shown near as much interest in mealworms like she used to. I think she prefers hoppers now. Sounds like your ducks ate too much at once.