Help / Advice call duck "crackling" when breathing!

[BinkyPingu]

Hello all,
Any advice or help please.
My newly hatched call duck Binky, is about 44 hours old. She was breach.

She isn't eating or drinking much but when she does upto 20mins after she is making a tiny clicking noise with an almost paper like rustling sound. It's not really loud but it's loud enough for a tiny duckling. She opens and closes her mouth and shakes her head for a few minutes after the start of the clicking. But still peeps runs about and breathes well.
The food I'm using is duckling friendly chick crumbs, slightly ground as some are too sharp / big for her tiny beak, in water as the first time she tried to eat the loose crumbs on ground she shook them all out.
Apart from this she is alert, playful, inquisitive, preening and sleeping. She keeps trying to peck everything around her this could be hunger? Or just figuring stuff out?
She did two green poops around 12 hours ago and two little dark brown ones since.
I have cleaned her nostrils gently with soaked q tip.
Wondering if this could be phlegm inside beak? She hasn't grasped nose cleaning herself yet.
Although she perky I'm worried about her running out of "yolk" energy which may be keeping her going.
Any advice would be much appreciated.
I'm watching her like a hawk she is the only egg of three eggs which successfully hatched. All were breach and 2 albumin drowned.
Thank you in advance
----- as I was typing this she ate, sneezed a few times, then kind of went to do a poo but little rush of air came out .
She isn't eating like a rescue duckling I found and raised last year, how much should she be eating in the first few days?
Thank you again.

 

[Chickens :)]

I am really sorry I don't have an answer because I am not a duck owner. Though my last set of chicks pecked at everything until they figured out what it was so maybe that is what your baby duck is doing. Maybe the clicking noise is how it is trying to communicate? I am not sure. Best of luck though with it though.

 

[BinkyPingu]

I am really sorry I don't have an answer because I am not a duck owner. Though my last set of chicks pecked at everything until they figured out what it was so maybe that is what your baby duck is doing. Maybe the clicking noise is how it is trying to communicate? I am not sure. Best of luck though with it though.

Thank you I will keep an eye on Binky I hope it will subside.

 

[BinkyPingu]

Hello all,
Any advice or help please.
My newly hatched call duck Binky, is about 44 hours old. She was breach.

She isn't eating or drinking much but when she does upto 20mins after she is making a tiny clicking noise with an almost paper like rustling sound. It's not really loud but it's loud enough for a tiny duckling. She opens and closes her mouth and shakes her head for a few minutes after the start of the clicking. But still peeps runs about and breathes well.
The food I'm using is duckling friendly chick crumbs, slightly ground as some are too sharp / big for her tiny beak, in water as the first time she tried to eat the loose crumbs on ground she shook them all out.
Apart from this she is alert, playful, inquisitive, preening and sleeping. She keeps trying to peck everything around her this could be hunger? Or just figuring stuff out?
She did two green poops around 12 hours ago and two little dark brown ones since.
I have cleaned her nostrils gently with soaked q tip.
Wondering if this could be phlegm inside beak? She hasn't grasped nose cleaning herself yet.
Although she perky I'm worried about her running out of "yolk" energy which may be keeping her going.
Any advice would be much appreciated.
I'm watching her like a hawk she is the only egg of three eggs which successfully hatched. All were breach and 2 albumin drowned.
Thank you in advance

**************UPDATE************
I took Binky to the vets just after the original post.
I couldn't find an avian vet within my county area. I took her to a small animal vets.
One of my healthy ducks (Peaches my ducklings mother) was over dosed with an injection of Terramycin by a Vet in late December and I have since read that Terramycin isn't always suitable for waterfowl.
Naturally I was worried about antibiotics and dosage.

The vet believed Binky to have a upper respiratory tract infection.
The vet prescribed Enrofloxacin also know as Enrobactin or Baytril.
25mg (2.5% solution) I was given a 10ml bottle.
Ten days of treatment. 1ml per 50ml of water. She would only drink around 10ml of this a day.
She would mess up her water so I would change the water, using another dose.
I had to ask for another bottle.
When I did go back to the vets I saw a different vet who then thought it might be better to syringe a 0.04ml dose mixed with an additional 0.6ml of water - twice a day for three days, straight into her beak.
I didn't do this. I have read that you can get water into their lungs. And trying to hold her beak open could have been distressing for her.
Instead I continued with the original 1ml in 50ml water a day. No other water made available to her.
Sure she hated it, shook her beak about and stuck her tongue out... but after three days she started to get better, by day 5 she was only crackling occasionally. And by day 9 she had completely cleared up. I continued her treatment to day ten.
She has finally learnt to clean her nares herself, a day after her course finished she had a very snotty nose but after the final clean up using q tips in warm water, she is much better.
She has pulled through so well. She is now just over three weeks old
I just need to find her a call duckling friend as she is still a lone duckling, completely imprinted on me and I only have time away from her to sleep at night. She is constantly with me.

If anyone in the Northwest of the UK has a call duckling for sale please let me know.
I'm fully aware my duckling is early for the season, but her mother died and I took over incubation.
Thank you to all the articles on here that have been so helpful