Bow-legged duckling, what to do?

I also have four week old Pekins. One started showing slight signs of a niacin deficiency one day so I switched them to a feed with more niacin and started supplementing with vitamins/niacin in their water. It has been over a week since I started supplementing them and the one has gotten worse. It cannot stand, does not move, eat or drink, and seems to be weezing. Help please!
A competent vet is the best thing, it is sounding like your little one may have a respiratory infection, and that requires oral or injectable antibiotics. Please if you can get someone familiar with waterfowl to see your duckling. If you cannot, I would get antibiotics. I am not an expert on which kinds of antibiotics and the dosages, but here is one resource.

https://sites.google.com/a/poultrypedia.com/poultrypedia/medicine-chart
 
Is mine bowl legged or what's happening?? ** they sleep in a tote next to me in my room. They out grew it but one of them is still recovering from a ferret attack and they don't like to be separated or alone.**
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Is mine bowl legged or what's happening?? ** they sleep in a tote next to me in my room. They out grew it but one of them is still recovering from a ferret attack and they don't like to be separated or alone.**
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Does the little one get around okay? There is a condition called splay leg, that requires treatment. It is generally caused by slippery or smooth bedding.
 
I went through this last year with one of my Pekings. She wasn't as aggressive with eating as the rest and would eat afterwards. She grew up and the bigger she got and older she got her legs just got worse and worse till eventually she couldn't walk at all. So I brought her in the house. She was litterly trying to hold herself up with her wings and beek. So I brought her in and she had a bumble foot on top of her not really being able to get around. So I took her to the vet and did antibiotics and Epsom salt bath and it didn't get any better. Meanwhile her other foot ended up growing backwards so she had one bumble foot forward and one leg backwards. I built a wheelchair for her to try and rehabilitate her so she could walk. After a certain amount of time their ligaments grow in that direction. So I ended up just putting her down. I did the niacin thing late with that flock. So now I got another flock and started the niacin/brewers yeast thing from day one and I noticed I have one that has bowlegs now. I'll wait and see how it goes but I'm not going through what I went through before. I'll euthanize before it gets to that point. That's my experience with it. I learned EVERYTHING about ducks and chickens from pinterest. Read some of the blogs on there. They're awesome.
 

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