3 week old with weak legs!!

peepquackwaddle

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Mar 3, 2025
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I started to notice my one baby sitting more than the others about a week ago. They have duckling starter feed with added brewers yeast and nutri-drench in their water. Is there anything else i can give her to make her legs stronger?
 
I had a goose with this problem and gave her Vit B drops on lettuce a few times a day to fix it. You are already giving brewers yeast, so I wouldn't think it would be happening. Maybe she isn't getting enough of the brewers yeast?
 
Leg and gait problems like these in ducklings next Durvet high level vitamins B compound orally. Drop 1ml on a few meal worms or other treat, and watch the duckling eat the dose every day. It can take three or more weeks to resolve the igait ssue. When the duckling is improving, add nutritional yeast to their feed and continue the duvet until a week after the symptoms are fully resolved. Use 1 tablespoon nutritional yeast for every cup of feed.

Some ducklings need more Vitamin B than is available in brewers yeast.
 
In addition to the Durvet’s, your duckling also needs exercise, to strengthen those legs. Mother duck does not keep her ducklings in a small space. Supervised swim therapy several times a day is the best. The bathtub works great for this. At first, keep one end shallow enough that they can stand. You can add a tiny pit of grass or leaf lettuce if you want.
 
Leg and gait problems like these in ducklings next Durvet high level vitamins B compound orally. Drop 1ml on a few meal worms or other treat, and watch the duckling eat the dose every day. It can take three or more weeks to resolve the igait ssue. When the duckling is improving, add nutritional yeast to their feed and continue the duvet until a week after the symptoms are fully resolved. Use 1 tablespoon nutritional yeast for every cup of feed.

Some ducklings need more Vitamin B than is available in brewers yeast.
is that a good dose for a month old duck? or should it be lessened
 

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