Please tell me this isn't a bone 🤢🤮

[BoradorBeans]

Of course, leave it to my ducks... my pampered spoiled rotten ducks to get into trouble and give me heart attacks.

Here's baby Delly (approx. 3-4 weeks?), a Pekin we rescued from a horrendous market. She was aspirated and recovered with nebulizer and antibiotics.

Now this. A cut on her foot from yesterday (she runs like a track star in the yard to get away from psychotic Jerry when she gets her outside time).

Today it looks like something is sticking out from her foot. Please tell me it's not the bone.

Vets are closed and no emergency vets will see her because, you know, she's an exotic DUCK. We're going yo the vet who treated her aspiration tomorrow if we can get an appointment).

Anyone see something like this before?!

Cheers... because I'm def. having a drink because I can't handle this.

 

[BoradorBeans]

It's a bone fracture! Poor duck can't catch a break.

 

[BoradorBeans]

Here's the xray. Thankfully it's right at the tip by her nail, so maybe it'll be easier to fix and for recovery. She doesnt seem to be in pain. She's drinking her "souper salad" snack now and her biggest problem is needing a bib.

 

[BoradorBeans]

How sweet. She is really enjoying her souper salad.

Lesson learned: don't give a white duck paprika.

 

[BoradorBeans]

Well. It's confirmed. Delly will be having part of her foot amputated on Wednesday.

We are also kinda thinking Delly is a male since he is starting to sound a lot like our Lenny did at this age. So we may be calling her Dexter. Although my husband will not stop calling her Duck Norris.

So far, Delly is less than Keisha's vet bills but by a small margin. I'm trying to convince my husband to become an avian vet, if only to treat our flock.

PS. Delly does not like traffic lights. They're scary.

 

[BoradorBeans]

Looks almost like a rock is stuck in her toe

I thought so, too, but it won't budge. She's been soaking in an Epsom salt bath to try and loosen whatever it is.

 

[BoradorBeans]

poor baby. how did the vet treat it? what did he prescribe?

For right now, she's on anti-inflammatory medication and antibiotics. They did an x-ray to confirm the fracture.

She received an anti-pain injection into her toe by the fracture. Her poor toe is stolen too triple its normal size now.

Meloxicam - 1.5 mg/mL oral solution 1x a day with food (we put on a few peas)

Sulfatrim (TMS) Pediatric Suspension

The ER Vet is consulting a well known specialist for next steps, the specialist who happens to be the veterinarian 3hrs away from us who saved our adult female duck, Keisha from a terrible egg bound / peritonitis situation. Her name is Dr. April Romagnano, and she is THE BEST.

We should have a plan of action tomorrow. I hope amputation isn't required. Poor thing. Delly is about to compete with Keisha for the title of World's Most Expensive Duck...

 

[BoradorBeans]

Hard to tell. Is she having issues walking on it?

No, she acts like nothing is wrong. But it was bleeding because I see dried blood on her belly when she was laying down. I think it's bothering me more than her.

 

[BoradorBeans]

Still the same... we have an appointment with our vet Monday evening to physically address the fracture.

 

[Miss Lydia]

I sure hope they can help save her toe.