Sick baby duck!!! URGENT! NEED HELP!

[casportpony]

Thanks Kathy!

You're welcome!

-Kathy

 

[Orca5094]

Omg, this is great news!! So glad he/she is doing better now.

 

[kkbuggy]

NOOOOO!!!! Scooter was curled up in his sock this morning... I got him out, but then his head started to loll and he opened and closed his beak every five seconds. He IS ALIVE THOUGH.
I imeadietly put him on his heating pad and mixed up some sugar water and laced it on the edge of his beak. His opening and closing of the mouth made it easy for him to get some down... but what do I do?!
He has peeped a few times and moved.... BUT HELP!

 

[Miss Lydia]

NOOOOO!!!! Scooter was curled up in his sock this morning... I got him out, but then his head started to loll and he opened and closed his beak every five seconds. He IS ALIVE THOUGH.
I imeadietly put him on his heating pad and mixed up some sugar water and laced it on the edge of his beak. His opening and closing of the mouth made it easy for him to get some down... but what do I do?!
He has peeped a few times and moved.... BUT HELP!

Others that have had crested ducklings with health issues have used Poly Vi Sol with out iron a drop Morning and evening it's in the infant section at stores This lil duckling has alot going against him with having both parents that are crested. Right now supportive care and the poly may bring him around.

And please read some of these threads when you have time. https://www.backyardchickens.com/newsearch?search=The+truth+about+crested+ducks

 

[casportpony]

How is he now?

-Kathy

 

[cluck n quack]

Much better not tucked in with the neck and doing much better as far as eating and drinking and running around still has loose diarrhea but not the watercolor that I was seeing a couple days ago I think we're helping her out a lot thank you so much

 

[casportpony]

Any chance you could take it to a vet?

-Kathy

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[casportpony]

Avian vet search:
http://www.aav.org/search/custom.asp?id=1803

-Kathy

 

[kkbuggy]

Scooter died... I'm very sad... He was very important in my life and I loved him... I felt I was like the mother he needed. He was lovable and playful and only yesterday did he catch his first fire ant!
We think his body was so big because he spent more time developing that than his heart
and neck. We will bury him later. I miss him a lot........

But...
I'm a duck mother again! There was another duckling in need of help. Her beak was bleeding and she was sick and being ignored. The guinea hen pecked her, AND the goose BIT her! She couldn't really walk, but thankfully, didn't do the whole neck thing like scooter! She is in my house with me in lap. Only two healthy ducks left in the coop plus her.

 

[casportpony]

I am so sorry!

-Kathy