Please help! Potential duck with bound egg!

[Scootchycat]

Hi everyone, so I have my 7/8month old call duck girl here. Shes been acting funny today. I first noticed she was a lot slower than her sister and taking long sitting breaks even when I had her favorite treats earth worms. She hasn’t been eating very much at all, she won’t eat her regular food but she will have some peas time to time. She is drinking. She is doing something odd with her tail, it’s like a light tail pumping, and her breathing is heavy. Her energy isn’t the greatest but shes not like super lethargic.
Here’s a little background. Yesterday I decided to separate the two boys from the two females because I realized thag boys cannot eat layer food. Their pens/runs are right uo against each other so the only thing separating them is a chicken wire fence. So they can see each other and at night in their coops they sleep together. It’s just during the day they are separated. So I was thinking maybe Shes depressed from being separated from the boys? Not only have they been separated but the two females now live with our 7 chickens during the day. The chickens and ducks do get along and they have no problems with each other but I can see that it may be a bit stressful being so outnumbered on top of not having their boys around. So thats just another option that could be causing her strange behavior but that doesn’t explain her breathing or tail pumping. I did feel her abdomen and look at her butt and I don’t think I feel anything off and I definitely don’t see anything off. Shes never laid an egg before so this would be her first one. And I wanted to add that one of our males is a black Swedish duck who is much larger than her. So if it was one of his eggs than it could be hard for her to pass if it’s larger than what she would usually lay.
So what I’ve done for her so far is I separated her from her sister, took her in the house in the bathroom and put her in a warm bath. I made it nice and warm in the bathroom and I was going to add epsom salt but I was super scared shed drink the water so I held off on that part until I got feedback from all y’all on here.
Thank you for taking the time to read this and any info or suggestions or ideas would be greatly appreciated and I’d be forever grateful! Thank you please help I don’t want to lose her, so early intervention would probably help her chances!

 

[nuthatched]

Can she poop?

 

[Scootchycat]

Can she poop?

Yes Shes been pooping

 

[Jenbirdee]

Hi everyone, so I have my 7/8month old call duck girl here. Shes been acting funny today. I first noticed she was a lot slower than her sister and taking long sitting breaks even when I had her favorite treats earth worms. She hasn’t been eating very much at all, she won’t eat her regular food but she will have some peas time to time. She is drinking. She is doing something odd with her tail, it’s like a light tail pumping, and her breathing is heavy. Her energy isn’t the greatest but shes not like super lethargic.
Here’s a little background. Yesterday I decided to separate the two boys from the two females because I realized thag boys cannot eat layer food. Their pens/runs are right uo against each other so the only thing separating them is a chicken wire fence. So they can see each other and at night in their coops they sleep together. It’s just during the day they are separated. So I was thinking maybe Shes depressed from being separated from the boys? Not only have they been separated but the two females now live with our 7 chickens during the day. The chickens and ducks do get along and they have no problems with each other but I can see that it may be a bit stressful being so outnumbered on top of not having their boys around. So thats just another option that could be causing her strange behavior but that doesn’t explain her breathing or tail pumping. I did feel her abdomen and look at her butt and I don’t think I feel anything off and I definitely don’t see anything off. Shes never laid an egg before so this would be her first one. And I wanted to add that one of our males is a black Swedish duck who is much larger than her. So if it was one of his eggs than it could be hard for her to pass if it’s larger than what she would usually lay.
So what I’ve done for her so far is I separated her from her sister, took her in the house in the bathroom and put her in a warm bath. I made it nice and warm in the bathroom and I was going to add epsom salt but I was super scared shed drink the water so I held off on that part until I got feedback from all y’all on here.
Thank you for taking the time to read this and any info or suggestions or ideas would be greatly appreciated and I’d be forever grateful! Thank you please help I don’t want to lose her, so early intervention would probably help her chances!

Just lukewarm water in the bathtub is fine. She doesn’t need Epson salt for egg bound. It would not hurt to give her calcium gluconate , that helps an egg get out.
For a regular size duck it’s one ML per day., just until the egg comes out. How much does your call weigh?

 

[Jenbirdee]

https://www.backyardchickens.com/ar...dications-to-all-poultry-and-waterfowl.73335/

This is how you give a liquid medicine.

And this is calcium gluconate

 

[Scootchycat]

Just lukewarm water in the bathtub is fine. She doesn’t need Epson salt for egg bound. It would not hurt to give her calcium gluconate , that helps an egg get out.
For a regular size duck it’s one ML per day., just until the egg comes out. How much does your call weigh?

I think Shes approx 1.5lbs maybe 2.

 

[Papaye]

Hi.

Yesterday I decided to separate the two boys from the two females because I realized thag boys cannot eat layer food.

Do you have the means to change your ducks' food...?

A mix of wheat and duck pellets (with oyster shell grit too in an individual, additional feeder) is sufficient for ducks, and you then won't have to bother separating your drakes from your hens...

Drakes (and even roosters) can, in fact, eat layer pellets... as long as they eat only a limited amount!
But if they do have an unlimited access to ducks pellets, wheat, and layer pellets...? They won't suffer from eating from each feeder every day - don't worry...

So thats just another option that could be causing her strange behavior but that doesn’t explain her breathing or tail pumping. I did feel her abdomen and look at her butt and I don’t think I feel anything off and I definitely don’t see anything off. Shes never laid an egg before so this would be her first one. And I wanted to add that one of our males is a black Swedish duck who is much larger than her.

I am not familiar with Call ducks...

...Is it normal for Call hens to start laying so late?
If not : are you sure your girl has still not laid her first egg?
(She could have hidden her eggs - what do you think...?)

How old are your drakes...?

From what you have stated here, it is possible that your girl is not eggbound, but has actually been hurt by your drake (while mating)...

IF SO, the best thing you could do is, for the time being : keeping her separated from the boys... but also from the chickens (in order to prevent any unnecessary stress)...!
(And if you see her girl friend mounting her, keep them separated from each other too...!!)

So what I’ve done for her so far is I separated her from her sister, took her in the house in the bathroom and put her in a warm bath.

You did GOOD!!

I made it nice and warm in the bathroom and I was going to add epsom salt but I was super scared shed drink the water so I held off on that part until I got feedback from all y’all on here.

Just use a small (dish) basin - around 10 liters.

► You fill the basin with warm water, then mix a glass of Epsom Salt with it...
...and next, your put your hen in it for about 30 minutes.

You stay with her - keep her in place yourself -, so you can physically prevent her from drinking the water if needed...!

 

[Jenbirdee]

Ok I just got This from @Miss Lydia
https://www.backyardchickens.com/th...bound-ducks-preliminary.959537/#post-14940303

Also how long has it been since she has stopped eating?

 

[Jenbirdee]

Also be watchful of so many drakes in with chickens . If they try mating with them , the chickens get injured and even can die. Drakes have equipment that roosters do not have.