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Awwww, how's the baby now?
Everything eaten or drunk must be processed through the digestive tract. If there's a blockage anywhere or it wasn't fully formed, it would create or add to the blockage. Sausage effect, stuff it too much, it bursts.
This one wasn't quite right and couldn't stand until yesterday, but seems to be doing a little better today. Still shows no interest in drinking and eating, so I'm tubing fluids. Will start tubing baby bird food today. Four days old and I can see that it is dehydrated and will try to get a picture that shows what I can see.
Since it hasn't been able to walk properly I've had to keep it in the RCOM bator and I found that 95 is too warm, but 90 is too cool... seems to do best at 92-93. I'm not saying that this is what all duckings should be kept at, just that when they are ill like this one is, that sometimes they need something different than what you're used to using.
-Kathy
Hydration must *always* be corrected first, and the only way to do that is to give *just* fluids.
-Kathy