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    My duck needs help possible back injury?

    Updates *** she is still not walking but standing a lot more but has lost weight. She eats and drinks though. The ducklings and a bantam chick have taken her as their mother so I think it's helping her hang on. I am almost 100% sure now that it is a back injury due to lots of research. I'm so...
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    My duck needs help possible back injury?

    Thank you 😊 I hope so too. My chick and ducklings have taken to her. She seems more lively now, but fingers crossed.
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    My duck needs help possible back injury?

    Providing food and vitamins and water and keeping a small space. I take her out a few times a week to bathe herself as well in the pond.
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    My duck needs help possible back injury?

    No sadly she is not improving 😔 but she perked up a bit when I added 3 ducklings in with her! Idk what to do. Already talked to my neighbor rancher about putting her down but I'm not ready to give up.
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    My duck needs help possible back injury?

    No she's been pretty normal in that aspect I think it was just bad incident and I'm thinking my toddler fell on her trying to catch her while I had my back turned 😔
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    My duck needs help possible back injury?

    And I have 2 drakes to 15 females
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    My duck needs help possible back injury?

    I'm going tobget more supplies tomorrow but yes she has vitamins and niacin. I'm getting some live meal worms this week as well. They have calcium and duck feed with lots of different grains and such. Nit just plain pellets. I'm starting to think her hips are dislocated or broken. If this is the...
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    My duck needs help possible back injury?

    Thank you so much! However her only symptom is when she tries to walk she falls forward and her legs behind her....she is healthy in every other way. But isn't laying anymore probably due to isolation? I'm not sure 😕 I've felt all over her body and she doesn't react to any pain that I am aware...
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    My duck needs help possible back injury?

    Two weeks ago my female Rouen wS fine in the morning layer her egg and was hanging around with my other 17 ducks and chickens. They free range. I'm not sure if she was hurt by mating or by my 3 yr old son by accident. But she can stand and use her legs but when she tries to walk forward she just...
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