My runner had a pin placed and every day I would let her sit in her crate while the other ducks visited her through out the day. There was no problem with this. Go for the surgery if you have the opportunity so the leg will heal. I have not gone through with surgery and the duck never got her...
At four weeks old I transferred five Swedish four week olds (in their dog crate with straw) from the house, to the car port area, and kept the heating light available on the crate, for freezing temps at night (it gets down below 30 right now). They have straw bales surrounding the crate and...
We have five five week old Swedish blue ducklings and it gets down to 28 degrees at night here in Oregon right now. At four weeks we transferred them from the house to the outside and I placed them in their modified dog crate (under the carport), surrounded by straw bales and a warming light-...