It’s called “let’s fill the water dish with all the straw we can til it becomes a clump of solid muck” 4 water dishes and all look like this.
They started doing this a few days ago. Then squawk angrily at me when I come check on them because they have no water to drink
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It doesn’t seem to bother her or affect her eating or drinking
Gonna keep an eye on it and see how it goes and if it gets worse find a vet willing to see her. Not many around here
Thanks. I don’t think it’s an abscess, at least not one I’ve ever seen. When I can open her mouth that bubble is not filled with pus. It is more like an air pocket. And the skin there is dry and leathery.
It’s weird
So my girl Arya, I noticed last night she had something sticking out of her mouth. Thought it was a leaf. But as I picked her up and checked her it looked like an abscess.
But when I opened her mouth it looks more like the skin inside her mouth stretched and is sticking out the side. It’s not...
Absolutely. Everyone here has been so helpful in my duck adventures I love to help others when I can now
To be honest it’s been about 3 months and she may never be able to go out in the pen with the other ducks as a male on top of her mating her may be too much for those legs to bare, but her...
So Floppy is the duckling I took in and raised that someone had dumped at a marina and had a sever niacin deficiency
Her legs and feet were like cheap plastic and felt like she didn’t have any bones at all.
We’ve given her niacin regularly but 3 months later and she still couldn’t take more...
So one of my ducklings I took in with the severe niacin deficiency has been getting slowly better. Her legs have mass and bone now.
But she may never get to be an outside duck. One leg is almost like it’s fused and doesn’t bend well. The other the leg has formed straight but the knee joint is...
Have a puppy pad under her but she wiggled around so much it comes loose. We have the backend backed into a Walmart bin on its side with pads under her to catch the poop. First one we did we cut and opening for the poop but she wiggled so much she wound up tearing the shit and I found her half...
I raised two little muscovie ducks JP and Sascha, from duckling
JP is very attached. When I come out at night with peas, jp comes up to me and has to have the first few peas eaten out of my hand.
One day I just was in a hurry so I just tossed some peas down for them.
All the other ducks went...
So Floppy’s bones are getting thicker and stronger with the niacin. But she still kept them bowlegged under her so we’re starting to form mid-shapened.
Saw stuff on line where people made duck wheelchairs / hammocks for ducks with injured feet. Pvc pipe frames and something they lay in that...
Yes 1 ml daily.
Floppy wants to run and play with the other ducks and it breaks my heart. I will check with the rescue I got them from and see if they have a good Avian vet they use
So one of the ducklings legs are great and they are out and about with the other ducks.
Floppy’s legs are better but also not better
One leg is severely turned in. The legs used to be so thin. It felt like cheap plastic. Now though, The legs are getting thicker and with more bone matter
But...
So Floppy LOVES the B complex liquid
Had tried brewers yeast and he wouldn’t eat. Got a niacin liquid supplement from a health store. Wouldn’t drink it. Kept spitting it out.
Gave him a dropper of the B complex and Floppy drank it all and wanted more. Put some in the water dish and he was...
Thanks! Didn’t realize it was available on Amazon. Just ordered some
Flops doesn’t like the yeast. Floppy will straight up just not eat it. Other ducks go to town on it
So took in a couple pekin ducklings that someone had dumped at a local river. They both had bad niacin deficiency.
One is responding well. The other’s legs are so bad. They were basically sideways pointing in.
Normally I use the B complex from TSC. I had a little and one’s legs are looking...
She is. She’s 3 and loves ducks. She will come out to the pen and feed them and loves just watching them.
Random funny story. As much as she loves ducks, my wife decided to get her a baby rabbit. Our daughter had one and loved it. She is terrified of it. Like it’s some eldritch horror from...