The Vengeance Of The Soft Shells

[PetDuck]

Hola familia! Miss me? I sure missed y'all!

Quackers has been doing fine by the way. She has been doing great actually, until last week that is. The soft shelled eggs have returned. She is eating DuMor poultry layer, oyster shells, and her prescribed B3, calcium, and phosphate supplement. But she still has soft shelled eggs. I'm terrified that she might get EYT again, and with only a 20% (with treatment) chance of survival, I'm afraid that she might not be able to cheat the infections for a second time.

I intend to call Dr. Whittington tomorrow morning to figure something out. I talked to him a couple weeks ago because I found a single softie, and he said to double the supplement. So, I did. And here are the softies again. Any ideas guys?

 

[PetDuck]

I called North State Animal Hospital (The vet that I took Quackers to) and they said, unfortunately, Dr. Whittington won't be in until Monday. I have to wait until then to talk to him. Any suggestions in the meantime?

 

[Miss Lydia]

I called North State Animal Hospital (The vet that I took Quackers to) and they said, unfortunately, Dr. Whittington won't be in until Monday. I have to wait until then to talk to him. Any suggestions in the meantime?

I had one doing that a while back and was getting worried since she is 10 yrs old but thankfully she went broody and since she has finally gotten over that after 40 days I haven't seen an egg yet. Other than what you are doing I don't know some have luck putting them into a dark room to stop them from laying but I couldn't imagine doing that to one. Just keep up with what your doing and hopefully it will rectify itself or you can talk to the vet again. We have missed you Pet Duck maybe add some chopped romaine lettuce to the mix of food.

 

[PetDuck]

Nice to see you as well Miss Lydia :3

Quackers has been laying two eggs a day for the past three days. One soft, one hard. Two days ago she started acting funny, slightly lethargic. I freaked out, knowing the possibility of a recurrence of EYT. I brought her inside and she slept in my room. She seams back to normal now. False alarm. I'm still keeping a close eyes on her though.

 

[Miss Lydia]

Nice to see you as well Miss Lydia :3

Quackers has been laying two eggs a day for the past three days. One soft, one hard. Two days ago she started acting funny, slightly lethargic. I freaked out, knowing the possibility of a recurrence of EYT. I brought her inside and she slept in my room. She seams back to normal now. False alarm. I'm still keeping a close eyes on her though.

I would for sure PD, after talking to you on here earlier I went out to collect eggs and found one of my EE;'s had laid a beautiful soft shell egg. I am so thankful it didn't bust inside of her. Hope Quackers is back to normal now.

 

[PetDuck]

I'm praying that it doesn't happen again. The shells on her softies are terribly thin, it's scary.

 

[PetDuck]

Good luck with your ducks as well, have any of yours had Peritonitis before? It's horrible.

 

[Miss Lydia]

Good luck with your ducks as well, have any of yours had Peritonitis before? It's horrible.

Not sure PD I lost one of my ducks a couple months ago she just acted slow one day and I brought her inside let her soak most of one saturday in the tub of warm water she laid a normal egg the next day but as the day went on she became worse by night she died, she did pass stuff that looked like whites and yolk. She went so fast. I am so happy for you that Quackers got over her infection.

 

[PetDuck]

I'm sorry about that. It's terrible to have to watch your babies go and not be able to stop it. I felt so helpless when Quackers was sick. It was miserable. Fingers crossed that all of our birdies feathers remain unruffled, so to speak.

 

[Miss Lydia]

I'm sorry about that. It's terrible to have to watch your babies go and not be able to stop it. I felt so helpless when Quackers was sick. It was miserable. Fingers crossed that all of our birdies feathers remain unruffled, so to speak.

Yep!!