(I changed the title of the post since other people chimed up about their ducks too)
I posted this in the emergencies forums as too. I hope it's okay that it post it here as well:
Friday evening I noticed my 5 week old runner duck sorta limping as I was putting them all to bed. It wasn't that bad, but I was having problems with another duck trying to fly off and forgot that I had noticed the limp.
Saturday morning when we were walking out to the pen, I really noticed it. She had a hard time making the walk. I picked her up and checked her over for injuries. I felt for differences in the two legs like swelling or breaks, and couldn't find anything. I also looked at the bottom of her foot.
I used the search tool looking at various threads about dislocations and breaks. If I understood what I read, if her leg were dislocated it would be hanging limp and she wouldn't be able to use it? And if it was broken she wouldn't be able to use it? I read something else about tendons getting out of groove (can't remember the exact name, but that was the gist of it). And that there was something I might be able to do to correct it if that's the problem.
Friday she and her brood-sister were in the kiddie pool and doing their scuba diving thing and then popping out of the pool, running off, circling back around and popping back in the pool. They did this a bunch of times. I did notice that one time Crackers, the now lame duck, tripped out of the pool though at the time it didn't seem like anything was wrong with her. She did calm down after that.
She's eating and drinking fine. She's worse this morning than she was last night. I tried separating her out with one of her friends, but both she, her friend and the flock freaked out, so I put her back with them. They step on her and that seems to cause her pain.
Any ideas on what I can do to figure out what's wrong with her? And if it is a slipped tendon what can I do to fix it? A vet is not in the cards for her.
I posted this in the emergencies forums as too. I hope it's okay that it post it here as well:
Friday evening I noticed my 5 week old runner duck sorta limping as I was putting them all to bed. It wasn't that bad, but I was having problems with another duck trying to fly off and forgot that I had noticed the limp.
I used the search tool looking at various threads about dislocations and breaks. If I understood what I read, if her leg were dislocated it would be hanging limp and she wouldn't be able to use it? And if it was broken she wouldn't be able to use it? I read something else about tendons getting out of groove (can't remember the exact name, but that was the gist of it). And that there was something I might be able to do to correct it if that's the problem.
Friday she and her brood-sister were in the kiddie pool and doing their scuba diving thing and then popping out of the pool, running off, circling back around and popping back in the pool. They did this a bunch of times. I did notice that one time Crackers, the now lame duck, tripped out of the pool though at the time it didn't seem like anything was wrong with her. She did calm down after that.
She's eating and drinking fine. She's worse this morning than she was last night. I tried separating her out with one of her friends, but both she, her friend and the flock freaked out, so I put her back with them. They step on her and that seems to cause her pain.
Any ideas on what I can do to figure out what's wrong with her? And if it is a slipped tendon what can I do to fix it? A vet is not in the cards for her.
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