AngelinaThePekin8
Crowing
My 6 year old blue swedish duck (Her name's Duck) was chased by a drake and she stepped badly on un even ground. She was limping and could barely walk, I witnessed the accident and immediately got her separated from the flock. It's been a couple weeks of her mostly being away from the others with food and water close to her. Not much change since then. I was hoping it was a sprain but seems more likely to be a slipped tendon.
With hardly any resources on the web, I don't know how to handle this situation.
Some questions I have yet to find answers too.
1. How do ducks with slipped tendons tend to hold their leg and or how much range of motion do they have?
2. If it's a slipped tendon, do I splint it? And should I do anything with the leg before splinting? What's the best way to splint and such?
3. I have not found ANY diagrams of duck legs muscles and tendons so far, which is frustrating. How do I determine if it's a slipped tendon, I have done quite a bit of reading about this already but a reiteration would be helpful.
4. Why does cold weather exist? (Frustrated this is happening when I can't use the hose and have to worry about Duck getting chilled after water therapy.)
Duck hardly puts weight on her left leg which is the injured one, often when she stands she lightly steps with it a bunch (don't know how else to describe it). I don't think I have heard popping or anything from it, hardly any warmth or swelling from what I can tell anytime I check. She eats and drinks and when in baths she does normal duck stuff. Poops are normal, and due to the season hasn't been laying (even before this injury I believe).
She can barely walk, often her left foot goes below her and on top of her right foot. I don't think I see her use it much outside of walking.
She does have some mild bumblefoot (from before this) I think on both feet. But it's never made her limp to much (plan to treat that when possible too).
Duck has been in her pen with her best friend Rose, most of the time. Some days I let her be able to go wherever she wants but I try to keep her penned up. She's been on all flock and gets a bit of duckling starter grower occasionally.
I plan on giving peas to her daily again, I think my durvet vitamins b complex isn't good anymore probably? I have to check. She gets daytime in a pen outdoors with a trusted duck and nighttime a pen in the breezeway with no other ducks in her pen, but does have other ducks near and visible at night. She also has water at night.
I hope that all was understandable and not poorly written. I am open to possibly getting her to a vet, but we don't really have any waterfowl ones nearby I don't think. So I plan to do my best at home. I hope I covered everything, I want her to feel better and soon.
Thank you for reading this and for any advise.
With hardly any resources on the web, I don't know how to handle this situation.
Some questions I have yet to find answers too.
1. How do ducks with slipped tendons tend to hold their leg and or how much range of motion do they have?
2. If it's a slipped tendon, do I splint it? And should I do anything with the leg before splinting? What's the best way to splint and such?
3. I have not found ANY diagrams of duck legs muscles and tendons so far, which is frustrating. How do I determine if it's a slipped tendon, I have done quite a bit of reading about this already but a reiteration would be helpful.
4. Why does cold weather exist? (Frustrated this is happening when I can't use the hose and have to worry about Duck getting chilled after water therapy.)
Duck hardly puts weight on her left leg which is the injured one, often when she stands she lightly steps with it a bunch (don't know how else to describe it). I don't think I have heard popping or anything from it, hardly any warmth or swelling from what I can tell anytime I check. She eats and drinks and when in baths she does normal duck stuff. Poops are normal, and due to the season hasn't been laying (even before this injury I believe).
She can barely walk, often her left foot goes below her and on top of her right foot. I don't think I see her use it much outside of walking.
She does have some mild bumblefoot (from before this) I think on both feet. But it's never made her limp to much (plan to treat that when possible too).
Duck has been in her pen with her best friend Rose, most of the time. Some days I let her be able to go wherever she wants but I try to keep her penned up. She's been on all flock and gets a bit of duckling starter grower occasionally.
I plan on giving peas to her daily again, I think my durvet vitamins b complex isn't good anymore probably? I have to check. She gets daytime in a pen outdoors with a trusted duck and nighttime a pen in the breezeway with no other ducks in her pen, but does have other ducks near and visible at night. She also has water at night.
I hope that all was understandable and not poorly written. I am open to possibly getting her to a vet, but we don't really have any waterfowl ones nearby I don't think. So I plan to do my best at home. I hope I covered everything, I want her to feel better and soon.
Thank you for reading this and for any advise.
