chickdaddy486
Hatching
- Dec 18, 2020
- 4
- 7
- 9
Hello everyone,
I am new to duck ownership and have been blessed with 2 of the sweetest ducklings on earth. They love being pet, playing around in the backyard during the day (we’ve been keeping them inside at night as it drops low here in the desert at night and is very warm during the day), and they pretty much never stop eating. We believe one of them may be a female and the other a male, as one of them started quacking about a week or two ago.
Everything has been great until recently. The one that we suspect to be the female started throwing her head back and letting it go completely limp. Before doing so she always lets out a gasp as if she were taking her last breath.... sometimes she will literally flip herself over like in the video I will link. It’s been really stressful dealing with this as a new duck owner just trying to figure it out, so I am considering driving 2hrs away to our nearest poultry vet if I can help her back to normal in the next few days, but in the meantime I was hoping to seek some advice here. Our other baby that we suspect may be the male (starting to make a loud high pitched squealing sound) has not shown any signs of this issue at all.
Here is a video of an episode that she just had a few minutes ago. I missed the part where she gasped and tumbled over but this is how she reacts almost every time it happens. After picking her and her head up she sits and walks around like normal, but her behaviors have changed and seem a little less happy over the past few days this has been going on.
Based on what I’ve read this could be a vitamin or niacin deficiency? Maybe someone else here will recognize this right away and be able to give me a more definitive answer though. We started giving them boiled duck eggs today and I ordered these two products on Amazon that will arrive tomorrow:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0042LA2PG/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_glc_fabc_u..4FbP2J86K6?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07PFQFK49/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_glc_fabc_PX.4FbPFZDED7
I am new to duck ownership and have been blessed with 2 of the sweetest ducklings on earth. They love being pet, playing around in the backyard during the day (we’ve been keeping them inside at night as it drops low here in the desert at night and is very warm during the day), and they pretty much never stop eating. We believe one of them may be a female and the other a male, as one of them started quacking about a week or two ago.
Everything has been great until recently. The one that we suspect to be the female started throwing her head back and letting it go completely limp. Before doing so she always lets out a gasp as if she were taking her last breath.... sometimes she will literally flip herself over like in the video I will link. It’s been really stressful dealing with this as a new duck owner just trying to figure it out, so I am considering driving 2hrs away to our nearest poultry vet if I can help her back to normal in the next few days, but in the meantime I was hoping to seek some advice here. Our other baby that we suspect may be the male (starting to make a loud high pitched squealing sound) has not shown any signs of this issue at all.
Here is a video of an episode that she just had a few minutes ago. I missed the part where she gasped and tumbled over but this is how she reacts almost every time it happens. After picking her and her head up she sits and walks around like normal, but her behaviors have changed and seem a little less happy over the past few days this has been going on.
Based on what I’ve read this could be a vitamin or niacin deficiency? Maybe someone else here will recognize this right away and be able to give me a more definitive answer though. We started giving them boiled duck eggs today and I ordered these two products on Amazon that will arrive tomorrow:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0042LA2PG/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_glc_fabc_u..4FbP2J86K6?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07PFQFK49/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_glc_fabc_PX.4FbPFZDED7
