Accidental duck momma needs help with hatching

[lovetopaint]

You seem to be doing an excellent job. I hope they make it!!

 

[LizD1]

You seem to be doing an excellent job. I hope they make it!!

Thank you so much! Your support helps me feel more confident that I am doing the best I can

 

[Lacrystol]

He is 6 days old.

Humm, got to get him to use that leg before it becomes a permanent issue..

 

[Lacrystol]

Is he able to put the leg behind him? You know how they kind of stretch them out..

 

[LizD1]

Is he able to put the leg behind him? You know how they kind of stretch them out..

he does put his leg behind him, but he does not straighten it. I am also concerned because his siblings seemed to double in size over the weekend, but he is a little smaller than them. I worked long hours this past weekend and my husband took care of the ducks. I didn't do water therapy and i only played with them for about 10 minutes each day.

 

[Lacrystol]

he does put his leg behind him, but he does not straighten it. I am also concerned because his siblings seemed to double in size over the weekend, but he is a little smaller than them. I worked long hours this past weekend and my husband took care of the ducks. I didn't do water therapy and i only played with them for about 10 minutes each day.

OH GOOD, OK, so he does have some mobile to stretch it behind him..

 

[LizD1]

Update on my duck with the weak right leg. Despite vitamins, supplements, probiotics, splints, vet wrap, and physical therapy he only ever had minimal use of his leg. When his foot was splinted with a small plastic triangle and tape he could put weight on it and get around faster. He did start to fly. Unfortunately last Sunday we found him dead in the pool. We're not sure what happened. He had only been in the pool for 20 minutes and he had a ramp out and stones stacked up to rest on. He was a sweetheart and we loved every minute of his 11 weeks of life. He seemed pretty healthy right up to his death. He was always just about a week behind his siblings in development. He is the duck on the left in the picture.

 

[Lacrystol]

Awe that's terrible, Sad news here too. I had six baby bibbed that hatched out about 2 weeks ago, in there coop I put a plastic container in there just big enough for them to swim around. Well I put a brick inside the plastic container to make them a stairway to get out easier.

Well the other night, I took the brick out because they most definitely looked big enough to leap in and out and sadly I found one of them in the container. He had drowned. So the brick went back in, doesn't sound right for a duck to drown when they are water fowl...

 

[LizD1]

@Lacrystol I am so sorry to hear that you lost a duckling. It does seem wrong that waterfowl would drown so easily. Hugs to you!