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Runner duck can’t walk
Obturator paralysis is generally reversible in females ducks with a treatable reproductive tract problem. In drakes, as in mine, it is caused by a pelvic tumor.- ruthhope
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Runner duck can’t walk
I have had a drake that this happened to. Please take a good look at your boy: check him out for injuries to his legs and hips, and for lumps and bumps in his abdomen, including low down in his abdomen into his pelvis. If he has injured legs, feet, hips: treat accordingly. For all gait...- ruthhope
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Let’s Talk Ducks
Thank you for compassion and caring. Your sweet duckling needs ducky companionship. Ducks are flock animals. Might you get another 2 ducks? -
Let’s Talk Ducks
I love female muscovy ducks -- I see feral muscovy around retention ponds all-round the town where I live [St Augustine in Florida]. My own flock is all drakes -- muscovy and pekins that have been rescued and rehabilitated. I have always been able to rehome rescued and rehabbed females, but... -
Support Group for Abused Duck Keepers
Mine love hiding but all I need to do is go to the back door and call out their names and out they pop and come up waddling! They are so nosy, they need to know what I am up to when I am in the garden!! -
Duck being weird neck
Good that it is soft and squishy! I would manage her conservatively: quiet and separated with one female friend for a few days observation until resolved!! -
Duck being weird neck
Not so sure that it is muscle spasm and a trapped nerve, now I have seen the video. Maybe a crop issue. Can you feel the front of her neck and make sure she doesn't have an impacted crop? Ducks don't have a real crop. They just have part of their esophagus [gullet] that expands an... -
Help Me Sex These Ducklings!
I think the first is too young to tell: it's still using its baby voice. The second definitely has a quack, a quiet qucak!! I do not have KCs but I have a pekin drake that sounds like that and my son has a flock of females that all but 1 sound like that!! My other pekin drake and my son's other... -
Duck being weird neck
Might you upload the videos to YouTube? I dont want tiktok app on my phone so can't view them. It sounds like she has muscle spasm trapping a nerve, but I would have a better idea if I could see the videos. Meloxicam is a good start! I would keep her quiet with a quiet female friend and no... -
Support Group for Abused Duck Keepers
So here they are hanging out in and around their favorite tree! Although they could get underneath from anywhere round the tree, the first photo is of Louie Wilson taking himself in through the 'main entrance'. -
Black vultures on roof of duck run
This is a Veterinary article on black vultures: https://poultrydvm.com/predator/vulture#:~:text=If%20provided%20with%20the%20opportunity,most%20standard%20bird%20control%20products. Obviously, black vultures can be a problem to rural farmers. My experience is with suburban black vultures in... -
Black vultures on roof of duck run
I use chicken wire over strong wire supports (mason's ladders) for the top of my duck house. I only use hardware cloth to 3ft from the ground to prevent raccoons and other predators paws reaching through the bars. Chicken wire is perfectly good above 3ft from the ground as long as it is strongly... -
Can duck to be learned every evening to go to sleep seperate from the flock?
I have two pekin drakes, 1 3+ years old and one 6 months old that learned to go into dog crates un my duck coop. They feel safe in there where my muscovy drakes cannot get to them. But I do have to follow them in and close the dogcrate door. So if your girlcfeels safe in a wooden crate or dog... -
Duck suddenly not walking
I have a rescued pekin drake that came to me at 2.5 weeks old with his clutch mate. Both had severe acute niacin deficiency. The clutch mate, bigger and more feisty, had a bowed tibia and I could not get him walking despite several weeks of durvet high level Vit B in his water. As both were kept... -
Duck suddenly not walking
I have used 5ml (1tsp) in 500ml (1 pint) of drinking water. If she dips her whole head in and if she preens with tge water, she will start to stain her feathers -
Support Group for Abused Duck Keepers
This is my boy's favorite tree. It's just outside the garden shed where they sleep when we are in Northern Virginia. Although it is lush on the outside, it is "hollow" underneath, with a huge concealed open area around the trunk. No signs of ducks in back yard? They are hiding under the tree... -
Duck suddenly not walking
Glad your girl is standing. Do make yourself a ducky first aid kit so that you are prepared and don't have unexpected expenses if a duck is sick or injured in the future. Get Durvet high level vit B compound -- there are small bottles you need not get 500ml/1pt size from the feed store or on... -
What is this duck behavior?
My pekin drake that previously did it a lot, seems to have outgrownvthe habit! -
What is this duck behavior?
I see similar behavior on pekins on land. Mine do not hsve a pond or lake only a wading pool so aren't out swimming most of the time. The most satisfactory explanation I found when I fist saw it and looked on BYC and other duck groups for an explanation is that the duck is adjusting its crop... -
Duck suddenly not walking
Durvet high level vit B compound 1ml orally per day is the emergency treatment for niacin deficiency When a duck is recovering add nutritional yeast to the feed and continue until 2 weeks, or so, after all returns to normal Preventative for laying ducks (particularly laying pekins) on chicken...