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    Help! Duck with dead foot

    Just asked my neighbor to take some, hopefully won't upset it too much. Aparently its hopping along and at least was drinking
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    Help! Duck with dead foot

    Just asked her to send me some now, yep paradise Shelduck, new zealand
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    Help! Duck with dead foot

    My neighbor found a young paradise duck with nylon wrapped around its ankles, one foot is dead and the other it can just stand on so may be ok. No lesions or broken skin. Does a dead foot need to be amputated even if there are no lesions?
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    Wild duckling food stuck in throat

    Here in New Zealand we don't have turtles in our creeks, but we do have big native eels which I've read eat ducklings and grab feet. I chased a couple of eels away the other week and they didn't come back thank goodness
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    Wild duckling food stuck in throat

    No idea, I've only started noticing them over the past 6 months to a year maybe but I've just started taking a proper interest in them recently so who knows
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    Wild duckling food stuck in throat

    I think around 3 - 5 of them, at least 2 females and a male or 2. They all fly. We have known Paddles for a while, always used to come for food at the warf before settling in the creek with her babies. The black males you can see a faint green hue over their heads, as if they are mallards...
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    Wild duckling food stuck in throat

    I'm so proud of how big and happy they are haha :celebrate
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    Wild duckling food stuck in throat

    Mum (called Paddles) is missing one foot, most likely attacked by an eel which is apparently a common way that this happens
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    Wild duckling food stuck in throat

    There are a number of black ducks in our bay like this with the white chests, male and female, and ofcourse mallards too
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    Wild duckling food stuck in throat

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    Wild duckling food stuck in throat

    Yep they cleared it! Was so relieved to count all 5 this morning. They are mallard hybrids I presume, all wild
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    DUCKLING CHOKING PLEASE HELP NOW!!

    Well it was all fine in the morning! Whew! Thank you for the reassurance
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    DUCKLING CHOKING PLEASE HELP NOW!!

    Yes wild mallard hybrids with black mama! 2x black babies and 3 mallard colours. I actually feed 2 other families just to distract them from "Paddles" the 1 footed mama while her babies eat. All 21 babies from 3 families are multi colored, mallard, black and blonde. I'm happy to read it may not...
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    DUCKLING CHOKING PLEASE HELP NOW!!

    Its now midnight here so they are asleep and too dark for videos. It just looks like whenever a duckling eats they tend to jolt their heads forward and back rapidly to help the food go down before drinking some water. Its just this except the food seems to not be going down, like she has just...
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    DUCKLING CHOKING PLEASE HELP NOW!!

    Yes a duckling. Because she is chugging her neck back and forth and sipping water like they do to get food down, but she had been doing this for the past 10 mins
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