PLEASE HELP!!! WHAT IS WRONG WITH MY DUCK??!

[FarmLife1321]

Could the male have injured her at all? I know male ducks are relentless when it comes to mating and they can mate the females to death.

I really don't know. I've had him for over a year and haven't had any problems with him. She's a lot bigger than he is which I know probably doesn't matter because he could still hurt her but, I was thinking maybe this could be some kind of deficiency maybe?

 

[FarmLife1321]

Also I spoke too soon. She just had another episode I guess you could call it where she was standing in a very upright position and put her head down towards the ground. I've got vitamins & electrolytes in her water but I don't know if this will help her.

I'm also going to put a video of her breathing on here because she is definitley having trouble breathing.

 

[SolarDuck]

I was thinking maybe this could be some kind of deficiency maybe?

What do you feed them?

 

[FarmLife1321]

What do you feed them?

They were getting flock raiser mixed with layer crumbles just in case she did try to lay an egg you know, she would have the proper calcium to do so (I've had problems in the past with her not eating oyster shells and then she would lay rubber eggs, so then I mixed in laying feed and the very few times she did lay they were hard after I added the laying feed). I did recently however, like a few days ago, cut the laying feed out because I didn't think she would need it anymore, so she's just eating the flock raiser crumbles now.

 

[Isaac 0]

Now that you have her warmed up, it would be a good next step to perform a full physical examination and check over her body for any abnormalities that may help further narrow down her problem.

A lot of the time it's easier and more efficient to check head moving to toe. Check her eyes, inside her mouth with a flashlight for any lesions, tackiness, plaques, mucous, etc - pull each wing out and see if she retracts both quickly with little effort. Feel her keel bone, and use the scoring graph below as a guide (a Pekin should be around a four). Palpate her abdominal area, and note whether it feels distended, and if so, if it feels hard, soft, or like liquid. Check around her vent, and look over her integument for any sign of ectoparasites. Fill free to use a similar sized duck as a guide to what "normal" looks like.

https://www.merckvetmanual.com/exot...ltry/physical-examination-of-backyard-poultry

Is the duck eating, or drinking much at all? Do you have any pictures of her droppings, if so, could you post them?

I would try to get a weight on this duck using a large gram scale. If you have some electrolytes, such as Sav-A-Chick, try warming those up a little bit, and offering them to her. Some warm mashed scrambled eggs or warm soupy feed may be enticing for her as well.

 

[FarmLife1321]

Now that you have her warmed up, it would be a good next step to perform a full physical examination and check over her body for any abnormalities that may help further narrow down her problem.

A lot of the time it's easier and more efficient to check head moving to toe. Check her eyes, inside her mouth with a flashlight for any lesions, tackiness, plaques, mucous, etc - pull each wing out and see if she retracts both quickly with little effort. Feel her keel bone, and use the scoring graph below as a guide (a Pekin should be around a four). Palpate her abdominal area, and note whether it feels distended, and if so, if it feels hard, soft, or like liquid. Check around her vent, and look over her integument for any sign of ectoparasites. Fill free to use a similar sized duck as a guide to what "normal" looks like.

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https://www.merckvetmanual.com/exot...ltry/physical-examination-of-backyard-poultry

Is the duck eating, or drinking much at all? Do you have any pictures of her droppings, if so, could you post them?

I would try to get a weight on this duck using a large gram scale. If you have some electrolytes, such as Sav-A-Chick, try warming those up a little bit, and offering them to her. Some warm mashed scrambled eggs or warm soupy feed may be enticing for her as well.

I was not able to check inside her mouth I will have to get help and do that in the mroning but her bill is a little bit soft feeling--not hard like it should be. Her eyes are good but they look a bit red--no discharge though. When I pulled her wings out I was able to stretch them all the way out without her fighting it hardly any. Once they were stretched all the way out though she would pull them back in. She does have runny, clear, discharge coming out of her nostrils and had a little bit of crust around her nostrils earlier as well. I would say her keel bone is probably about a 3 maybe 4. You can feel it but not like feel it, feel it if you know what I mean. Her abdomen does not feel distended but is soft. No sign of any ectoparasites. She is drinking but I can not get her to eat. I think its because she's in the house and she is not a very tame duck so she's probably a little stressed out. She weighs 6.6lbs. She is also still having difficulty breathing. Sometimes her droppings are firm and other times they're really liquidy and runny. I noticed her bottom being poopy or messy a few weeks ago also--it is however clean right now though. Here is a picture of her droppings.