Snowy Mallard Problem, PLEASE HELP QUICKLY!!!

[BaJa]

I sorry for your loss.
Best wishes. Maybe the people who you bought from will help you out?

Yea, he's arranging another drake now.
Another $100.
And probably not as nice as this one.
Oh well, shit happens.

 

[BaJa]

@BaJa, one thing my vet's taught me was to look for certain things in sick animals and it has helped me immensely. One of those things was "watch for open mouth breathing". This is different than panting, and I have found there are a few types of open mouth breathing, one comes when they are about to die, one comes from respiratory disease, one from pain, one from a disease like ascites. It's been my experience that they all look slightly different, but the average person probably thinks they look the same and this is why I wanted to see the video of your duck.

Ok. Well, the video was just like the picture except his back going up and down quickly. No open mouth breathing, just some hissing like a person with the cold coming from his nose.

 

[chickens really]

Yea, he's arranging another drake now.
Another $100.
And probably not as nice as this one.
Oh well, shit happens.

Oh I'm sure everything will be okay...I bet he will be a very pretty boy. Best wishes to you...

 

[casportpony]

Ok. Well, the video was just like the picture except his back going up and down quickly. No open mouth breathing, just some hissing like a person with the cold coming from his nose.

When the back moves up and down like that, or when they look like they are breathing using their abdomen, it is not a good sign, and this sort of breathing problem is always an emergency. And as I said in my last post, the differences in breathing problems and what they mean are can be very subtle and hard to differentiate.

I am very sorry for your loss and hope this doesn't happen again, but if it does, please create a youtube or Vimeo account and upload a video ASAP.

Going forward, be very careful when handling your ducks and when you pick them up, do not apply pressure to their crops in case they have food and or water in them.

Best of luck and please post pictures of your new boy when you get him!

 

[BaJa]

I'm trying to send you an email of his breathing right now. Not sure if it will work but I'll try.

 

[BaJa]

Check your email. just send

 

[BaJa]

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[casportpony]

Nothing came through.

 

[Magnolia Ducks]

You can get day old snowy mallards from Ideal for about $6 each. Don't know if they ship to Canada though.

 

[DuckyDonna]

You can get day old snowy mallards from Ideal for about $6 each. Don't know if they ship to Canada though.

no, they do not. YOu have to have a US postal code. Too bad!