Update: 7 Days on...
Daisy Duke now getting in and out of her house unaided.
I stopped the Epsom Salts treatment 3 days ago, she still walks with a pronounced limp and I'm
allowing her one hours free ranging everyday, a swim and spending the rest of her day resting in her run.
She looks a lot...
I've been having trouble with my limping duck.
Check out this previous thread (link below) started by mommissan, I gate crashed it!
It may be of some help.
Regards, Amanda
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I have been giving Daisy Duke a deep bath tub of luke warm water to swim in everyday for an hour minimum as physiotherapy, followed by a 15 minute leg soak in Epsom Salts solution and we are now 6 days on and she can stand properly and can walk a short distance but is still limping but...
Thank you.
I gave her another deep bath today she played in that for a couple of hours then I dangled her legs in Epsom salts solution for about 15 minutes, dried her off let her dry out and have a preen (she was very vocal, unlike the last few days!) then put her back outside in the sunshine...
Hi, No, I hadn't seen any"accident" she may have had but she free ranges with 10 others and ducks are such clumsy darlings that occasionally one or other may have a slight limp from time to time but are usually back to normal in 24 hrs or so. The ground they're on is about 1/2 acre of my garden...
Hi again.
I've had her in deep warm water in the bath tub for a couple of hours and she paddles up and down using both feet but the left paddle is stronger than the right. I wrapped her in a towel to dry her off laid her on her back and had a good examination of her...... no sign of anything...
Hi, sorry to gate crash this thread but I have a lame duck coming up to 2yrs old. She's had a slight limp but over the weekend it has got worse and now she's not standing.
I have kept her confined with her "sister" who is fine,there is no sign of injury or swelling.On googling "duck with a limp"...