Baby duck is struggling to breath. HELP!!!

[BlueO]

You can Compare her eyes to the others. Sick eyes would be runny or sticky or gloppy or swollen or discolored .
Does she eat the Mazuri starter?
Mazuri is a floating Feed that’s meant to be floating on water I do feed my ducks, the mazuri maintenance Feed morning and evening in their water buckets ( and Purina duck feed in their feeders, free choice)
If she’s not eating You can try making her a little bowl of mash, which is just feed and water mixed together to a soupy consistency.

Her eyes look fine so far. So she’s still young so I let the feed soak for a bit so it gets softer. I’ve tried feeding them solid pieces in water and they won’t eat it. She is eating and drinking just fine. Thank you!

 

[BlueO]

Is she a crested?

Yes.

 

[BlueO]

What is the name of the vitamins and how are you giving them in their water? directly in their mouth?

I mix it in their water.

 

[Jenbirdee]

What is the temperature in the brooder?
Did the gosling come through the mail?
And you said you hatched the duckling at home?
Please stop giving her that” vitamin vitamins’ those are not good vitamins for ducklings I’m running all your information by Miss Lydia who is a duck expert, but cannot get on BYC because her Internet is down

 

[BlueO]

What is the temperature in the brooder?
Did the gosling come through the mail?
And you said you hatched the duckling at home?
Please stop giving her that” vitamin vitamins’ those are not good vitamins for ducklings I’m running all your information by Miss Lydia who is a duck expert, but cannot get on BYC because her Internet is down

Thank you! Will the vitamins I was giving her harm her? I hatched the gosling a few days ago.

 

[Jenbirdee]

Thank you! Will the vitamins I was giving her harm her? I hatched the gosling a few days ago.

they’re not vitamins. They are synthetic antibiotics used to treat certain diseases.

 

[Jenbirdee]

Here are two very good poultry vitamins that are good for waterfowl as well (pics of front and back of each)
Hang on my phone is stuck not letting me paste pictures
But they are called.” Nutradrench”, and “ rooster booster poultry cell”

 

[Jenbirdee]

So you said, you also hatched the duckling at home? Like in an incubator.? (may sound like a silly question, but I hatched my ducklings under a broody chicken) oh and you did not mention what is the temperature in there? Do you have a thermometer you can put in there to find out? Are they in the corners that are the farthest away from the heat? Sorry so many questions but it’s the only way we can narrow it down to figure out what’s going on.

 

[BlueO]

So you said, you also hatched the duckling at home? Like in an incubator.? (may sound like a silly question, but I hatched my ducklings under a broody chicken) oh and you did not mention what is the temperature in there? Do you have a thermometer you can put in there to find out? Are they in the corners that are the farthest away from the heat? Sorry so many questions but it’s the only way we can narrow it down to figure out what’s going on.

I hatched both duckling and gosling in an incubator. I do not have a thermometer for heat, but they switch around in corners. I think they just like snuggling up in them. I’m gonna get them a bigger Bruder soon so they’ll have more areas away from and close to the heat. Don’t worry about the questions as long as it helps me figure out what’s going on.

 

[BlueO]

so far, she seems to be acting normal. She’ll kind of go from acting like a regular baby duck to being inactive like when the baby goose plays and she just sits in one area.