Please help! Bowed legged ducklings.

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laisi said:
Hey Kevin565, thank you for responding. So I am dissolving between 250-500mg of niacin into 1 gallon of water- multiple times a day. I also put about 2-3 tbls of yeast into their crumbles. I started out with a brand called Duram, then purina, and now I'm on a wild game feed which I'm unsure of the brand cause I am not home right now. I ordered mazuri from my feed store.
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My personal suggestions would be to:

Cut back the niacin levels to 100-150 MG per gallon of water.
I would suggest adding in a broad spectrum multivitamin. You'll want one that doesn't contain iron in it.
It also wouldn't be a bad idea to see if supplementing vitamin e improves their condition.

Is there any possible way they could have gotten in to something toxic?
 
Frutfarm said:
I have 8 Pekin almost one month old ducklings. When we moved them from the brooder box to their outdoor enclosure I noticed one walks way shorter and the feet point point so far in she trips herself. I read about niacin, but can't find Brewer's yeast. Tractor Supply here didn't have it. How soon should there be a noticeable difference, if that's the problem and is there a point that her gait is permanent?
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I would also suggest adding it vitamin e supplements.
At that age her current gait shouldn't be permanent.

You should see some improvement in a few days/week in most cases. However, just like in humans some birds take longer to recover from these things.
 
Thank you for the vitamin e suggestion. I'll try that as well. Why should I avoid iron? And no, I'm positive they did not get into anything toxic.
 
laisi said:
Thank you for the vitamin e suggestion. I'll try that as well. Why should I avoid iron? And no, I'm positive they did not get into anything toxic.
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Too much iron can be toxic in birds.
It's usually best to completely avoid the possibility rather than worry about complex dosages.
 

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