Runner Duck labored/heavy breathing

[Beanfox]

This is the one I buy I just put it into a spray bottle. If I need to use it as a spray.

Thankyou! And I would just spray it onto the top of her bill, right? Not inside?

 

[Miss Lydia]

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When I use Oxine ah I spray a mist over their heads so it lays lightly on their faces I've never put it in their nares. @Jenbirdee? Don't want to say that's a good idea might just be best to add to Drinking water.

 

[Jenbirdee]

My husband makes our own colloidal silver . But one time I bought some I got the Sovereign Silver brand.
And that was because @New duck mommy 2021 had said it’s what she gets.

 

[Jenbirdee]

Don’t put anything directly into their nares please.
You can spray a fine mist of colloidal silver above their heads. Or you can put some colloidal silver in a nebulizer.

Colloidal silver also will not hurt them to drink a little bit of it in their water although I’m not recommending that - and please
never put OXINE AH mixture into their drinking water.
The OXINE AH -2 TBSP diluted with 22oz distilled water - can be sprayed over their heads also and to keep the straw dust down in their coop I spray it in the air above the straw.
The same OXINE AH DILUTION can be used in a nebulizer for 20-30 minutes every 8 hours. Use a crate, covered with towels and direct the nebulizer spray into the crate.
I’m waiting to see how your duck is doing when she finishes the 5 day course of Baytril. What day will that be?
If she is not showing signs of improvement after five days of that very strong antibiotic then what is your plan?
Have you weighed her? Do you have an ounce or gram scale?
Have you considered tube feeding?
I would also give her duck safe probiotics as soon as she is done with her antibiotics

 

[Miss Lydia]

Gosh I hope I didn't sound like you should put Oxine in the water I was referring to the silver, sorry.

 

[Jenbirdee]

Gosh I hope I didn't sound like you should put Oxine in the water I was referring to the silver, sorry.

I knew what you meant just wanted to make it extra clear for others

 

[Jenbirdee]

@Beanfox did you ask your vet to have the trachea sample cultured for aspergillosis yet?

 

[Beanfox]

Don’t put anything directly into their nares please.
You can spray a fine mist of colloidal silver above their heads. Or you can put some colloidal silver in a nebulizer.

Colloidal silver also will not hurt them to drink a little bit of it in their water although I’m not recommending that - and please
never put OXINE AH mixture into their drinking water.
The OXINE AH -2 TBSP diluted with 22oz distilled water - can be sprayed over their heads also and to keep the straw dust down in their coop I spray it in the air above the straw.
The same OXINE AH DILUTION can be used in a nebulizer for 20-30 minutes every 8 hours. Use a crate, covered with towels and direct the nebulizer spray into the crate.
I’m waiting to see how your duck is doing when she finishes the 5 day course of Baytril. What day will that be?
If she is not showing signs of improvement after five days of that very strong antibiotic then what is your plan?
Have you weighed her? Do you have an ounce or gram scale?
Have you considered tube feeding?
I would also give her duck safe probiotics as soon as she is done with her antibiotics

Thankyou for the info!

She weighs 2.2 pounds. Not sure what her weight was before this. We don’t weigh our birds

I don’t have a plan yet for what we’re going to do after the antibiotics are done. She has 8 doses. She got her third dose last night.

In my opinion she is showing a little improvement. Her only symptom was/is the breathing fast/hard, which does seem to be improving. So I don’t have a whole lot to go on in terms of improvement. But I can say with confidence she is not declining.

I’m not going to tube feed unless it’s absolutely necessary. I’ve never done it, have only watched videos. And the amount of stress that would cause her is not worth it to me at this time since she is still eating mealworms & I haven’t seen how she behaves back in her normal environment or with another duck around

I will get some probiotics if I don’t already! I’m pretty sure I have some but I’ll need to check when I get home

 

[Beanfox]

Gosh I hope I didn't sound like you should put Oxine in the water I was referring to the silver, sorry.

All good I knew what you meant! Thankyou!

 

[Jenbirdee]

OK, so you started her on the Baytril Friday night? Does that mean she’s only getting one dose of day? I’ve just never heard of that. I always read that it’s given twice a day.