URGENT Choking Duckling!!

[DuckWhisperer06]

What are you feeding them?

Do they always have water available?

Are they in a brooder or an outdoor pen?

 

[ANightPerson]

What are you feeding them?

Do they always have water available?

Are they in a brooder or an outdoor pen?

They are on nonmedicated starter crumble. Indoors in a brooder, they always have water

 

[casportpony]

I can't feel anything in her throat. I am afraid to try and stick anything down

If you can't feel anything down the right-hand side of her neck (esophagus and crop), then the problem is in her trachea, air sacs, or lungs. How long has she been breathing like this?

 

[DuckWhisperer06]

What I’ve done for mine any time they’re having issues like this (they take too much food and no water) is to take your thumb and index finger and start at the base of their head (under their jaw) and gently move my fingers down the front of their neck a few times. Then they take a few sips of water and are on their merry way.

 

[ANightPerson]

Are you on your way to.the avian vet?

I am too far away, I would be stuck in the city with no one to watch my animals at home. I'm not sure if she can make another hour, she's too tired to stand

 

[ANightPerson]

Are you on your way to.the avian vet?

They gave her oxygen & said she wasn't improving

 

[ANightPerson]

If you can't feel anything down the right-hand side of her neck (esophagus and crop), then the problem is in her trachea, air sacs, or lungs. How long has she been breathing like this?

An hour

 

[DuckWhisperer06]

Maybe she had a reaction to something and her throat is closing?

 

[Kiki]

She's having trouble breathing... obviously.

The regular vet...what did he say?
Did he look in her mouth?

 

[Kiki]

Any of your other ducks had respiratory infections?