Sick duckling!!! Please help. really worried UPDATE

[Amiga]

Keep watching her, make sure she gets plenty of fresh water, keep looking for anything else out of the ordinary. If she needs a nap, maybe she just needs a nap. I'm hoping that's the case - that her swim just pooped her out big-time. The vomiting doesn't sound good, though.

Maybe you could pm Duck_feeder.

 

[featherfinder]

ok thank you. She just ate a couple bites of the mash and is walking alittle better now. im really hoping all she needs is a nap and so homemade food.

 

[ChristineR]

I would worry about the stall pellets. Those things are so dry and just soak up moisture. I could see them causing a problem if ingested. Is she pooping OK?

 

[Miss Lydia]

featherfinder, could she have eaten any of the horse stall pellets? do they have an unusual smell, the reason i am asking is a BYC member posted on the N.C. thread that she lost some chickens after changing their bedding to horse stall pellets but it wasn't from them eating them but from somekind of chemical that was in them. I hope she is okay...

 

[DUCKGIRL89]

If I were you I would charge those pellets right away! But I hope sue os ok?

 

[featherfinder]

horse stall pellets are gone. I have never seen her eat them and i have used them for all my ducks and they have been fine. She threw up again. Im really worried about her. Would poly-v-sol help? I can go out and buy some now if that will help.

 

[Amiga]

If this is an infection she may need antibiotics. Do you have a vet, or know a wildlife (waterfowl) rehabilitator?

 

[featherfinder]

Yes i do but i do not have the money to take her. I have tetracycline would that help? im getting ready to go buy the charcoal things now to flush her system. Anything else i should get? what about the poly-v-sol?

 

[featherfinder]

What should i buy? and would that help? would any of that help?

 

[Amiga]

You wrote that you're already putting vitamins in her water. I'm wondering if it's too much of a good thing. These are just some ideas, I don't feel like I know how much she's been getting. But toxicity or infection keep coming to mind as possibilities. I wish I could think of a way to narrow down the culprit. This can be so frustrating and scary.

The charcoal, I am told, binds to toxins and helps as they pass out of the body.

I think just regular clean water will help most.

Vomiting may indicate there's blockage in her digestive system.

Some people recommend epsom salts in water as a laxative. Be very, very careful if you decide to try that. If she did (some ducks surprise me with the odd ways they have to get into trouble) ingest a sawdust pellet, I suppose it could have swollen up in her little tummy and be causing some blockage. So charcoal water might possibly help with that.