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Here's one of the last pictures we took of Rosie and Ella Pickle together. :love

Thank you. Yes, Ella was in the same room (but separate brooder) when Rosie died, and we spent some time letting Ella see her the next morning. She was very quiet and looked at Rosie very intently. We think she knows.

Thank you so much! We so appreciate all your help and advice. We're working to get the big ducks to accept Ella Pickle. They are terrified of her right now, but we need to get her living outside with them. Little steps each day....

Ella is doing okay. The big ducks are still terrified of her. Yesterday she stayed out in the field with Stella, Goose and Martha, but they stayed pretty far apart most of the day (except when an osprey flew over). She follows them (and us) around during supervised free range. She seems like she...

Thank you so very much! It means a lot.

Rosie died last night. We're not sure what actually happened. The first vet we saw (when our vet was on vacation) said that she suspected something more serious (genetic abnormality) could be going on that would manifest itself later. We are not going to do a necropsy. We feel very lucky to...

It's VERY tight....but we're working on it.

Thanks! She is not terribly interested in the treats. She gets most excited for greens. It's hard to measure how much grain she is actually eating, but it's not enough. She does seem to like snails, and those seem to be good calories, so we may try more foraging type food today.

It's been a while since we've posted a Rosie update. We got the Walkin' Pets Feathered Friends wheelchair, and after having it around her for a few days, we popped her in it for the first time time today. Rosie is progressing with daily PT and swimming, and she is surprisingly (to us) pretty...

We are looking into wheelchairs right now, and we've gotten a quote on the Walkin' Pets Feathered Friends Wheechair. It's not inexpensive, but the aluminum frame is so much lighter than the DIY one we made. Here is the link. We have two concerns: 1) Will she outgrow it? and 2) the wheels look...

I'm so sorry. Rosie is doing okay. The bandage came off and she had her first post surgery swim yesterday.

Rosie went back to the vet yesterday and had her bandage and splint removed. The tendon is in place, which is good. There was some irritation around some of the suture sites, so she got antibiotic ointment, gauze and vet wrap, so probably three more days of no swimming. We have a lot of PT ahead...

It's been a busy week, and I have not been online much (too much harvesting and duck care and watering...). Rosie (and Ella) went back to the vet who performed the surgery on Wednesday for a check-up. She removed the bandage to observe the site of the incision. There was some swelling but no...

Ella has still only had short periods with the other ducks. She hates to leave her sister. She's a character though...and a very good big sister!

We wrote to the vet concerned about the cleanliness of the bandage. We also hate the idea of not looking at the wound or being able to see the foot distal to the surgery site for two whole weeks. We suggested we could rebandage and resplint (we expected to have to do wound care following the...

For the past two nights we have put Rosie in the smaller kiddie pool they used to use for their brooder. Ella is right next to her in the larger one. It's worked really well, and she seems to like it much better!

Rosie seemed more "with it" yesterday morning, which was good to see. Our routine is that we check on her around 5am when we get up and then we handle all the chores and bring her (and Ella) outside around 9am. Rosie sits on Karen's lap for an hour or so, while we do her meds and Karen...

I suspect the answer is yes. My understanding is that even if the surgery is successful, there is a good chance the tendon could slip again. Once the bones are not growing so quickly, however, it may be easier to deal with through therapy.

Yes. She's on Trimethoprim (0.7 mL 1x/day) and Meloxicam (0.3 mL 2x/day). We are going to dry the hair dryer today. We've moved to puppy pads under shavings, and that seems to be keeping things much drier. We're still unclear on the sling chair. Here's a picture from this morning. Ella stays...

Today Rosie seems even more "blah." It's a big exhausting effort for her to get her up and out and propped up comfortably on some towels when we clean her crate and move her outside. We don't think she ate much at all last night, and she was slow to eat this morning (although she did eat some...