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    Adult Duck With Splayed Legs, Potential Further Issue With Hock Joint

    Thank you for the information. I shall contact the vet to clarify which anesthesia he would use for the procedure. He's an experienced exotics vet, although i don't think he has done this specific procedure on a duck before, however he seemed familiar with the procedure itself. If we go for...
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    Adult Duck With Splayed Legs, Potential Further Issue With Hock Joint

    I'm sorry to hear about your birds. Thank you for sharing your experience, i shall take that into strong consideration. Do you know whether the anesthesia used was an injectable one or a gas one? I ask as one of the other replies mentions having higher confidence in gas ones over injectables.
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    Adult Duck With Splayed Legs, Potential Further Issue With Hock Joint

    @Isaac 0 An update on Jessy the duck. Fortunately our vet returned a couple of weeks earlier than planned, so we managed to get her an appointment the Friday before last. He said that she had some infection in the joints and that would need to be cleared up before any further treatments could...
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    Adult Duck With Splayed Legs, Potential Further Issue With Hock Joint

    @Isaac 0 I have updated the video settings so they should now work properly. I did a fair bit of research when she first arrived and my layman's conclusion was that Splayed Legs was the most likely culprit, I'll do some more in depth research on the others you mentioned in case i overlooked...
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    Adult Duck With Splayed Legs, Potential Further Issue With Hock Joint

    Just over a month ago we added two more adult female Pekin ducks to our flock. Not sure precisely on age, we were told this season, they're fully sized and feathered, the one in question is not laying yet. She has Splayed legs, when she arrived she shuffled instead of walked like the others do...
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    Herder of ducks intro

    Hello. We are a family living in a London, England Suburb, with 2 Pekin Ducks, one Male called Billy (Due to the unique shape of his bill) and one Female called Niffler (A Harry Potter reference due to her love of pecking at jewellery as a duckling). Both born end of March 2019. They are our...
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