DuckMamaNH
Chirping
Hi all. One of my Pekin girls, Bev, had a cough last month. I put her and the rest of the flock on VetRX and VermX. She isn't coughing as much now, BUT I recently found a dead worm in their droppings that looks a lot like a tapeworm.
Bev has also been losing a lot of feathers...at first I thought she was just a late molter (the others have already gone through their molt), but today when she flapped her wings, it was truly alarming how small and stumpy her wings look. It reminds me of my WH Nellie when she was very sick last year. Nellie eventually passed, even after antibiotics (we suspect she swallowed something)
I want to start Bev on a dewormer ASAP. I've combed through these threads but haven't found a conclusive answer on the best dewormer for a duck when one suspects tapeworm.
Advice, please?
Bev has also been losing a lot of feathers...at first I thought she was just a late molter (the others have already gone through their molt), but today when she flapped her wings, it was truly alarming how small and stumpy her wings look. It reminds me of my WH Nellie when she was very sick last year. Nellie eventually passed, even after antibiotics (we suspect she swallowed something)
I want to start Bev on a dewormer ASAP. I've combed through these threads but haven't found a conclusive answer on the best dewormer for a duck when one suspects tapeworm.
Advice, please?