AngelinaThePekin8
Crowing
This is Angel, she is an 8 or 9 year old pekin duck, I don't know exactly how old she is at least to the exact date, we had her since she was maybe a week old I think that when we got her she was just starting to get her blood feathers in on her wings.
She had bumble foot in the past I only ever soaked her feet a few times and then gave up cause I didn't really know how to treat bumble foot very well. I don't really remember how long she had it or when she got it but she doesn't seem to have any now.
About six years ago now maybe more or less, she got bit by a neighbors coon hound a little bit below her right wing kind of by her oil gland, I don't really remember how we treated it I wasn't the main caretaker of our chickens and ducks around that time but I know she never seemed to have issues from it, I don't think the wound was super bad.
I believe we only ever got layer feed for all of our birds so they were all fed layer feed their whole lives until these last four months I switched to an all flock feed, they all seem healthier on the all flock.
So anyways the reason I made this thread is because Angel for about the last four maybe five years now, has not been able to walk very well, most of the time she had to use her wings to help her walk, she would stay in one spot and only get up to eat feed or move out of the way of another duck or chicken and go into the coop at night. She has/had a hard time cleaning her feathers really well and from using her wings to walk the tips have almost no feathers. She is a little on the skinny side or she looks a little thin, I cant really weigh her.
Before I joined BYC I was thinking Angel would never get better and all the thoughts that come along with that.
I never would have thought that a simple change in diet could help her, but now I know and I am working on getting her back in good health, I love Angel very much I don't want her to be uncomfortable I want her to be able to walk around with everyone else and forage and do duckie things.
Angels current ability to walk has been improving by the day it seems, the all flock has helped her a lot but it isn't enough to get her better completely or fast enough. I got some durvet vitamin b complex today and want to give her some like right now (I would have done it a few hours ago but don't know how the lid on it works and I don't want the complex to go bad or whatever).
Angel this week has been able to walk without using her wings unless she stumbles or trips on something she even tried running a few days ago although it ended with her tripping on her own feet and not getting very far very fast.
She's been more vocal this week to and the weeks before this week but I have definitely seen a lot of changes with her in the last week or so.
And it is the time of year right now where drakes are crazy so at night and this last month during the day she and my oldest drake were being separated during the day and night eventually my two drakes stopped fighting for a while... But a couple nights ago they started fighting again so now it's back to Angel and Chiharu (the drake) being separated during the day again. Ugh, drakes are such turds sometimes I still love them though.
This whole time since the drakes started fighting and even when they weren't Angel and Chiharu were being kept inside a playpen at night except a few nights ago they stayed in the coop with everyone else at night.
I would like to know what type of treat to put the complex on in order to give it to her?
Thank you for any advice, I really want Angel to get better and I know she wants to, too!
She had bumble foot in the past I only ever soaked her feet a few times and then gave up cause I didn't really know how to treat bumble foot very well. I don't really remember how long she had it or when she got it but she doesn't seem to have any now.
About six years ago now maybe more or less, she got bit by a neighbors coon hound a little bit below her right wing kind of by her oil gland, I don't really remember how we treated it I wasn't the main caretaker of our chickens and ducks around that time but I know she never seemed to have issues from it, I don't think the wound was super bad.
I believe we only ever got layer feed for all of our birds so they were all fed layer feed their whole lives until these last four months I switched to an all flock feed, they all seem healthier on the all flock.
So anyways the reason I made this thread is because Angel for about the last four maybe five years now, has not been able to walk very well, most of the time she had to use her wings to help her walk, she would stay in one spot and only get up to eat feed or move out of the way of another duck or chicken and go into the coop at night. She has/had a hard time cleaning her feathers really well and from using her wings to walk the tips have almost no feathers. She is a little on the skinny side or she looks a little thin, I cant really weigh her.
Before I joined BYC I was thinking Angel would never get better and all the thoughts that come along with that.
I never would have thought that a simple change in diet could help her, but now I know and I am working on getting her back in good health, I love Angel very much I don't want her to be uncomfortable I want her to be able to walk around with everyone else and forage and do duckie things.
Angels current ability to walk has been improving by the day it seems, the all flock has helped her a lot but it isn't enough to get her better completely or fast enough. I got some durvet vitamin b complex today and want to give her some like right now (I would have done it a few hours ago but don't know how the lid on it works and I don't want the complex to go bad or whatever).
Angel this week has been able to walk without using her wings unless she stumbles or trips on something she even tried running a few days ago although it ended with her tripping on her own feet and not getting very far very fast.
She's been more vocal this week to and the weeks before this week but I have definitely seen a lot of changes with her in the last week or so.
And it is the time of year right now where drakes are crazy so at night and this last month during the day she and my oldest drake were being separated during the day and night eventually my two drakes stopped fighting for a while... But a couple nights ago they started fighting again so now it's back to Angel and Chiharu (the drake) being separated during the day again. Ugh, drakes are such turds sometimes I still love them though.
This whole time since the drakes started fighting and even when they weren't Angel and Chiharu were being kept inside a playpen at night except a few nights ago they stayed in the coop with everyone else at night.
I would like to know what type of treat to put the complex on in order to give it to her?
Thank you for any advice, I really want Angel to get better and I know she wants to, too!