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    Please help- three week old duckling with curled foot and swollen hock

    Sorry foot! Damn iPhone
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    Please help- three week old duckling with curled foot and swollen hock

    The hock joint is very swollen and stiff, but the joint about her foot will flatten and th droit will flatten if I move it.
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    Please help- three week old duckling with curled foot and swollen hock

    It's ok @WVduckchick and @DuckyDonna thank you for defending me! And I am definitely along the lines of try to fix her first and not just simply 'cull' her as the first option, I may not be an expert with poultry but I have had horses and cats and dogs my whole life and they are part of our...
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    Please help- three week old duckling with curled foot and swollen hock

    OK, I will take that on board, but all of the other ducklings hatched and are absolutely fine. They are healthy and thriving and they were all in the same incubator.
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    Please help- three week old duckling with curled foot and swollen hock

    Yes, although I have already sent them photos and then said they wasn't sure anything they could do. But that was before she went really lame so I will say her condition has worsened and hopefully they will see her.
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    Please help- three week old duckling with curled foot and swollen hock

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    Please help- three week old duckling with curled foot and swollen hock

    I am in the UK, I bought some poultry nutri drops which are full of vitamins including B12 and I have also been adding brewers yeast to every feed as this is high in B vitamins, is that enough? Thank you
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    Please help- three week old duckling with curled foot and swollen hock

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    Please help- three week old duckling with curled foot and swollen hock

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    Please help- three week old duckling with curled foot and swollen hock

    Thank you so much - I will get some pics later today up close and post them. I did splint her foot a couple of times for two days at a time to try and flatten it out which seemed to help, but the foot just retracted a few days after. But as you say I think it's probably the leg that needs...
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    Please help- three week old duckling with curled foot and swollen hock

    Hello, I have a three week old duckling who was born very weak and she had a curled left foot. Her leg then became bowed and the hock joint is very swollen. She has been managing to walk and get around, although she limps a bit- I have been giving her a vitamin supplement and extra brewers yeast...
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