Unwell duck... What's going on?

[Jlw0903]

How do you know it can’t be an egg because it’s too early in the year? Where are you located? Some of my ducks have started laying already this year. I’m in Maryland.
It certainly would not hurt her to give some calcium gluconate and if it is an egg it will help get it out. 1 ml per day for a few days is ok . Orally with syringe. This is what I use View attachment 4293368

I'm in South East Wisconsin. I've always written down when we get our first eggs of the year. As the ducks have gotten older they start laying later and later every year. Darla is 6. She may have laid 2 dozen eggs in total last year. She likely wouldn't start laying until March at the earliest.
My young ones will start any day though.

 

[Goosebaby]

I'm in South East Wisconsin. I've always written down when we get our first eggs of the year. As the ducks have gotten older they start laying later and later every year. Darla is 6. She may have laid 2 dozen eggs in total last year. She likely wouldn't start laying until March at the earliest.
My young ones will start any day though.

Ducks with ascites usually get an upright penguin like posture, just adding that because it’s something to look for.

 

[Jlw0903]

Ducks with ascites usually get an upright penguin like posture, just adding that because it’s something to look for.

Yea. I've been seeing her standing like that. I didn't initially put too much to it because she does have that spinal deformity so with the weight loss/being ill/under stress that it didn't trigger as odd to me. Especially since when she was a baby she'd have a very upright posture and I'd joke that she thought she was runner. That went away as she got older but she's always done weird things (like preferring to be in high places like on top of snow piles) also she was mostly doing that when she had herself tucked in the corner of the sick bay pen on top of the water catch pan behind the waterer so not a ton of space for her there anyways lol.

But more recently shes been walking oddly in that upright posture sometimes and like she's got something stuck between her legs which is what got me to notice that her abdomen feels a little hard and not right.



I will say she's been very interested in eating meal worms now which she wouldn't do before. She will eat peas too but only in water.Not that I'm fooled into thinking is a sign of her getting better....and she still doesn't seem to touch her regular food.
I called Madison after work and they won't take her after work hours essentially, no emergency vets I've called in my area have vets who will see poultry/birds. I was able to call my regular vet and pull on their heart strings so they are sliding me in for a vet visit tomorrow morning.
I've got my fingers crossed that she's not too far gone that we could at least try draining the fluid and just keep an eye on the condition but I'm also resigned to the fact that she might not be coming home. It's more important to me that shes not in pain or suffering than getting a few more months with her.