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So a few days have passed, she is still alive thankfully, and looking a bit better maybe, but limping hard and holding her foot up a lot. Her beak is still pale. I’ve been soaking in epsom and cleaning and bandaging best I can, feel like I may have to try and do the surgery I keep reading about...

What’s the thoughts on putting oyster shells out? After DJ died yesterday someone said lay off the oyster shells, but if she had been egg bound wouldn’t it have been the opposite issue? Is there any harm in having the shells for them? The male seems to eat them too which I know he maybe shouldn’t

Thanks so much for all of the info everyone, we soaked, cleaned and wrapped her foot. Removed the pool and minimized their pen and put landscape fabric down to cover the gravel and put straw on top with fresh water and food. Will do our best to treat for bugs if that’s the issue and keep...

So guessing that a problem with their pen and most of our property is that it’s mostly crushed gravel and bark mulch. I hadn’t even considered their feet being injured by this, so I’ll have to figure out something for inside their pen at least to solve that issue and keep their foraging to the...

Sorry what dust? Having trouble following all the comments on the thread. It’s a tiny garden store in the next small town over, tofino, I can call and ask if she has things, you meant a lice dust or something like that?

So at this point would you all say it seems more like bumblefoot (and possible infection from that) rather than lice? Got the cleaning and bandaging stuff to do the foot soon but didn’t buy the lice cream they had yet as wasn’t sure it was ok for ducks

Thanks, I think we are supposed to keep her out of the pool for a few days at least

In ucluelet bc, on the west coast of Vancouver island

Sorry meant applying that after soaking in epsom and cleaning, then wrapping. Just unsure as polysporin has antibiotic so not sure if ok for ducks

Pharmacy has this human lice cream that is 1% permethrin

What about putting polysporen on the cut would that be an option?

I cleaned the coop yesterday after she died, I just change out the straw and chips, someone said maybe to wash walls with vinigar? I don’t usually wash it or anything as it’s not very dirty but should I start doing that? I clean it every week and a half or so and add fresh stuff daily, and it’s...

Arg now I wish we hadn’t bathed her, was told to do that incase it’s bugs but now will she be able to get oils back?

We are in Canada in a very small town that doesn’t have farming stores, only a grocery store and one small garden shop in the next town. there are stores an hour or two away that might have it but even then not sure, I can call around

Hard to tell which was hers or the males but think this was hers, wasn’t sure if the white was a concern I had researched that a bit but not found much

Ok thanks so much, Im not sure we can get the permethrin here but will check maybe the pharmacy has it otherwise will have to order on amazon. I’ll treat her wound as you suggested, it will stress her out but needs to be done

Yes I am worried about over-mating, it didn’t seem like it was that bad it was mostly the males just being aggressive toward each other, what issues would that cause if it was the case? An infection?

Drakes were perfectly healthy, just seems to be the females, if this duck has an infection also what can we do for her?

Here is pics of their pen area and coop, she is in the coop so couldn’t get a great pic but is the brown duck. They eat pellets plus the sprinkled oyster shells around their pen once in awhile, also greens from the garden often (I’ve been giving pak Choi a bit lately), and forage around the...

We have just bathed her in soapy warm water, toweled her off, and sprinkled some diatomaceous earth on her as was recommended to do incase it’s any sort of bug. We gave her a good once over and she has some white stuff around her vent and a cut on the one foot she was limping on. It stressed her...