Sunny is very quiet...

I wish someone here could give you a definitive answer, but there's no way we can do that.
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All we can do is share what we have read and learned. You're the only who is there with Sunny, and you're only one who can make a decision on how to treat her. Hopefully it is gapeworm and the treatment will work. Did you look over any of the other articles that are located in the link I shared with you? There is another one that sort of fits also. I hate to make you worry, but it's good to read all this stuff, I think.

Found here: http://www.shagbarkbantams.com/page11.htm
Upper Respiratory Fungal Infections

Following damp weather or after drying out damp coop conditions, the molds that were once actively growing lose the dampness they need to live. When they do, they 'sporulate' into mold spores in order to survive for later reproduction. In their mold spore state, they become airborne or stay in litter or sand dust and can be inhaled by our birds. Once inhaled, the spores find a new damp environment in the lungs and trachea of a bird where their growth creates an upper respiratory fungal infection.

Birds that are otherwise strong and healthy can usually fight off a mild infection and recover nicely, although the fungus can remain in the bird and reappear during future events of stress. However, when birds are at their weakest - due to youth, old age, or stressed in some other way - they can die quickly and without noticeable symptoms. Noticeable symptoms include gaping (stretching their neck forward and opening their mouth), coughing, sneezing, sniffling, 'chirping', and gasping for air. Sometimes a bird with no noticeable symptoms can be held to your ear to hear crackling, rattling, and gurgling from inside their lungs when they breathe. (Symptoms are more noticeable in waterfowl than in poultry.) The bird can simply suffocate from the fungus in their trachea, or die from the excess fluid created in their lungs as their bodies try to fight off the invaders.
 
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Awww I'm sorry! Maybe do the steam thing like someone else mentioned. Or take a warm washcloth to her nostrils.

http://www.runnerduck.net/diseases.htm

Respiratory problems
Symptoms: the bird sits hunched up and bobs its tail up and down to assist in breathing.
Cause: bacterial infection, especially in spells of intensely wet weather. Bear in mind that the symptoms of Aspergillosis are similar, but this will not respond to antibiotic treatment.
Treatment: a long course of antibiotic in the case of a bacterial infection. Consult your vet. Birds' lungs are complicated, because of adaptations for flight, so an infection is difficult to resolve.


Ask that feed store if they have Duramycin. That is an antibiotic, but I'm not sure if it will help...
 
Gahh....so many possibilities....
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I wonder if it is that too, I clean her cage 2-3 times a day. Not enough time for mold to establish I believe....but it's possible. When she does sneeze/cough/yawn it's usually in fits. Like she'll do it a lot at once in a matter of seconds. Other than that she doesn't sneeze or make any other strange noise very much. Thanks for the help though guys.
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Be careful feeding ivermectin to a duck. Those tubes are based on a 1200lb horse, and your duck weighs less than 10lb. It is possible to kill them by giving too much wormer. That is why I suggested getting wormer made for ducks and chickens. It's more diluted, so the margin of error is much bigger. That means that you would be much less likely to kill Sunny by giving her the product meant for her.

Wormers are drugs just like antibiotics, tylenol, vicodin, etc. You can give too much, and with an animal that small and a dosage concentrated for a horse, you need to be VERY careful.
 
Sigh.....so then what?
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Keeping a duck is harder than I thought...I wish my parents would be more supportive.
 
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Start with worming, when you get it come back here and we'll figure out how to dilute it, okay? You are doing right by your duck. If you keep her area clean and you know she eats earthworms, it's as good a guess as any, yes?
 
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Ivermectin is similar to this. Take a BB sized blob of ivermectin and mix it with 3 tablepoons of water. Give like 4 drops of this down her throat. You have to re-administer after 1 week to make sure you get any worms that hatch after the first dose. We do it x2 a year after the first double dose.
 
I bought a bottle of duck wormer from TSC, and they carry it at other local feed stores. It's the one mentioned in the article quoted above.
 

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