Treating weak runt duckling

[Miss Lydia]

I think this is a great article.

 

[Jpat]

Thank you @MysteryChicken

 

[Isaac 0]

Great Article!

 

[Jpat]

Too bad i cant edit this thread anymore

 

[Jpat]

Too bad i cant edit this thread anymore

I asked a mod to put the link in the bottom of my first post

 

[Ratchnick]

I'm late to the party but i want to say nice job, great writeup! I just want to point out some errors in your niacin dosing.

"He needs 50mg of niacin a day. iam using pharmacy isle B vitamins. its fruit flavored and easy to get for me. it is 30MG per ml. So he will need 1 syringe full in the morning, 1 in the afternoon then half of one in the evening."

Well, you read the box wrong and its only 20 mg/ml. That sounded like a lot of niacin so i looked it up on metzer farms blog. Turns out they dose in ppm, and if your duck eats .35 lbs of food a day they only need 10mg of niacin in that amount of food. So you were advocating 5x what an ADULT duck needs. A baby duck may need higher concentration, but they eat much less food as well. Info gets passed around byc like a game of telephone and its good to ground information on professional basis if possible. obviously your duck turned out ok i just want to point this out because so often i see posts recomending enough niacin to treat a steer!


https://metzerfarms.blogspot.com/2018/02/determining-how-to-supplement-your.html?m=1

 

[MysteryChicken]

Thank you @MysteryChicken

For what?

 

[Jpat]

For what?

finding that artical

 

[Miss Lydia]

Yes thank you!

 

[MysteryChicken]

finding that artical

Oh, okay. You're Welcome.