I can definitely try that. I went back just now and got as close to it as I could and reinspected it’s foot, it looks like it and all the other ducks like it naturally have dark grey spots on their feet, and it’s “problem area” seems to be a swollen part with a dark black spot on top. Attaching...
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Okay thank you. I’m in Texas and the bird refuge I can take it to takes all kinds of birds and ducks, I just didn’t want to pull it away from its family, or traumatize it trying to catch it if it was something that would eventually heal. I am new to the duck world, I wasn’t sure how all this...
I’m not totally sure, since I just noticed this a few weeks ago. It was waking around normally one day, and the next it had a visible cut, and it was pretty immobile for about a week, and over the past week it’s moving around more and swimming daily, but this is what it looks like as of today.
I live close to a community duck pond and often go by to watch/feed them. I noticed a duck with what looked like a cut on it’s foot a few weeks ago. At that time it was holding it up an hopping on one foot to get around. I’ve been going by daily to feed it (duck food w/niacin), I bought some...