Blue's wing - do I need to help fix it?

TLWR

Crowing
11 Years
Joined
Jul 10, 2010
Messages
2,921
Reaction score
363
Points
311
Location
southern AL
I think she landed on it while flying badly and crash landing on the deck steps about 6 weeks ago now.
She would put it out a bit, but not much. I think she used it this weekend when the dogs scared them and they flapped away and now she won't even stick it out.
She's carrying it forward a bit and looking from the front, you can see her chest is very lopsided. I tried to get a pic last night, but she did not want to pose. These were the best I could do as it was getting dark and could only get her from the back.

She's doing everything normally, just not using that wing - still using the other to stretch out and help down the stairs in the morning.

P1030539.jpg


Blue is the middle duck (poor Cadbury is bringing up the rear due to her foot injury - still don't have a clue what got her, but she is fine other than limping along - looks like a bad scuff at the ankle on the front)
P1030546.jpg


at the pool last night - you can see how her right wing is out a big and not tight to her body (Blue on the left)
P1030560.jpg



Do I need to do anything to help it heal?
 
Last edited:
If the injury happened 6 weeks ago- there is not much that you could do now without seeing a vet first for a consultation. If she broke a bone it would have healed by now- and if the damage is muscular - strapping or tapping the wing the wrong way may stop further recovery. So hard to know what can be done with her without knowing exactly what is wrong with her wing.

If the bone was badly broken- I would have expected to see it more droopy... But it doesnt rule out a fracture of some kind. If you pick her up- does it seem that it is causing her any pain?
 
She seems fine when I pick her up (which I do nightly to get her into her duck house since I have it up on wheels at the moment lol) - no more "Hey put me down!!! than normal anyway. It doesn't seem to bother her much that I can see.
Before these last few days (maybe week), you wouldn't notice it looking at her that she'd hurt her wing which is why it took us so long to realize she didn't seem to be using it so much and we've been paying more attention and then this weekend she won't even stick it out a bit.

Fresh pool water today, so hopefully she'll spend some time in there and I'll see if she does her normal clean water flap duck wash move or not.
 
Poor Blue!! I have no idea what to do because I am so new to ducks but I really hope that she is ok and starts using it again soon
hugs.gif
 

New posts New threads Active threads

Back
Top Bottom