What else besides poison would make a duck vomit

[Isadora]

It's been my experience with a variery of animals that they regurgitate or throw up shortly before death, often during death throes. Seeing it was about a half hour before she actually passed away, that might not be the cause, but wanted to give you anther idea besides something toxic.
I'm so sorry for your loss.

 

[Ninjadawn]

It's been my experience with a variery of animals that they regurgitate or throw up shortly before death, often during death throes. Seeing it was about a half hour before she actually passed away, that might not be the cause, but wanted to give you anther idea besides something toxic.
I'm so sorry for your loss.

Thank you, I am heartbroken and don't know if I caused it.. I never gave her anything for worms never saw any either. I miss her quacking at the kitchen door for attention or snacks or to come in and take a nap. She knew what go to your spot meant. I can tell the chicken to go get on the perch and she will tun to it and hop on

 

[Luv Ducks]

Thank you, I am heartbroken and don't know if I caused it.. I never gave her anything for worms never saw any either. I miss her quacking at the kitchen door for attention or snacks or to come in and take a nap. She knew what go to your spot meant. I can tell the chicken to go get on the perch and she will tun to it and hop on

I am so sorry about your beloved Duck passing. I know that if tomatoes are not 100 percent ripe they will have tomatine in them which is highly toxic to ducks. Also the vines and leaves are toxic to them. Is there anyway possible that either of these things might have caused her death? I am just trying to help you figure it out as I know it has been a hard loss for you.

 

[Ninjadawn]

I am so sorry about your beloved Duck passing. I know that if tomatoes are not 100 percent ripe they will have tomatine in them which is highly toxic to ducks. Also the vines and leaves are toxic to them. Is there anyway possible that either of these things might have caused her death? I am just trying to help you figure it out as I know it has been a hard loss for you.

Thank You.
I gave her grape tomatoes that I cut in half and sometimes in half again and they were all ripe and no leaves or any greenery. I threw away the lettuce I gave her I didn't want to chance it and feed it to my lonely Lil Rooster. I have not given her any of the tomatoes either and think I'll just toss them too. There was a lettuce recall recently but not the kind I fed the duck.
She always got her drinking water so dirty I had to change it several times a day but there was two different days that it didn't get changed out as often do you think she could of got something from the water? I gave her house water not irrigation water. The chicken drinks from the same bucket but does not drink near as much.
This is really bugging me no knowing what caused her death. I don't want it to happen again of course and I hope I didn't somehow cause it. I feel like she had a good diet but she still had egg shell problems. I didn't find an egg anywhere but she walked kind of like a penguin. A broken egg/shell inside her could cause infection right?
Lil Rooster hasn't played any eggs for a long time and I feel like I feed her well also but I must be missing something. The extra vitamins calcium brewers yeast... Etc made no difference in either ones egg production. I'm at a loss.
Thanks for your ideas

 

[Luv Ducks]

Thank You.
I gave her grape tomatoes that I cut in half and sometimes in half again and they were all ripe and no leaves or any greenery. I threw away the lettuce I gave her I didn't want to chance it and feed it to my lonely Lil Rooster. I have not given her any of the tomatoes either and think I'll just toss them too. There was a lettuce recall recently but not the kind I fed the duck.
She always got her drinking water so dirty I had to change it several times a day but there was two different days that it didn't get changed out as often do you think she could of got something from the water? I gave her house water not irrigation water. The chicken drinks from the same bucket but does not drink near as much.
This is really bugging me no knowing what caused her death. I don't want it to happen again of course and I hope I didn't somehow cause it. I feel like she had a good diet but she still had egg shell problems. I didn't find an egg anywhere but she walked kind of like a penguin. A broken egg/shell inside her could cause infection right?
Lil Rooster hasn't played any eggs for a long time and I feel like I feed her well also but I must be missing something. The extra vitamins calcium brewers yeast... Etc made no difference in either ones egg production. I'm at a loss.
Thanks for your ideas

You are most welcome. I know Egg problems can be fatal so that is a possibility especially since she was as you said, walking like a penguin. Without having her examined professionally it would be hard to say what caused her death for sure. We have city water and it has chlorine in it but that is all I have to give to my Ducks and they have drank it for over 2 years with no ill effect on any of them. Mine love to drink the rain water off of the ground in the pen once it rains hard and puddles so I don't see that as being a problem either. So sorry for your loss and I still think it may be egg laying related. That would be my guess.

 

[Ninjadawn]

You are most welcome. I know Egg problems can be fatal so that is a possibility especially since she was as you said, walking like a penguin. Without having her examined professionally it would be hard to say what caused her death for sure. We have city water and it has chlorine in it but that is all I have to give to my Ducks and they have drank it for over 2 years with no ill effect on any of them. Mine love to drink the rain water off of the ground in the pen once it rains hard and puddles so I don't see that as being a problem either. So sorry for your loss and I still think it may be egg laying related. That would be my guess.

Yea I am still leaning towards an egg problem BUT she hadn't had any for awhile. She started out with beautiful eggs then started to drop eggs without a shell and I would see a collapsed shell in a different spot. I gave her extra calcium, vitamins & brewers yeast and her diet I thought was pretty good. I fed her the Purina duck pellets and she would eat the chicken food sometimes too I gave her lettuce (romaine & occasionally green leaf) daily and she would also get tomatoes (grape or cherry) and some kind of fruit like watermelon, blueberry's & grapes and she had her favorite peas every morning for breakfast. She would eat some cat food when she came inside.
I wonder if there is something in the peas (or cat food?) that could of caused a buildup in her body that she couldn't process?? Peas were the only thing I didn't try cutting out of her diet when the vitamins and calcium didn't help the egg shell problem. She would run to the kitchen door and quack till I got her the peas if they were not at the end of her ramp when I let her out in the morning. I am still so bummed that she is gone.
I do have 2 baby's coming at the end of the month so that should help. I am getting things set up and building the brooder now so everything is ready for them.
I should add that they always had oyster shell available but I never saw them eat it and I rarely had to fill it back up.