Duck limping, not bumblefoot, no swelling, what could it be?

[Miss Lydia]

It might be a good idea because pain meds can cause them to maybe over do since the pain can be masked. I am not keeping my Runner in the XPen this time just limited her area so she isn’t running around on the full half acre

 

[DuckyDonna]

this is the best B-complex and can be found at Tractor Supply

 

[WannaBeHillBilly]

I got rid of my drake as soon as I could, so no drakes. I do have an older runner duck, Anise, who is quite the bully, pecking at both my Welsh Harlequins frequently. Both of them tend to bulldoze over my runner duck to get the best foraging and that pisses Anise off. Selah, the WH with the limp, tends to take it in stride, although occasionally she'll just walk a few steps away and let Anise get at the good foraging. I've never seen Anise attack/charge Selah when they aren't in the immediate area, which is what my drake used to do (major reason, why I had to get rid of him.) In other words, she's not eyeballing her from the other side of the yard, and running from there to attack Selah.

What did you do for your duck? How do you fix a slipped tendon?

The limping hasn't slowed Selah down at all. She still is very active.

After cuddling Maggie Duck a bit (which she didn't liked!) i had her confined to the Duck's vacation home for one afternoon (which she liked even worse!) together with her own waterer, soft bedding and a large portion of meal-worms and cat-food (which she liked very much!).
So she was resting for more than half a day and when i released her in the evening her limp was much better and got better and better every day.
The other limping duck, another of my Magpies, was not limping bad enough, so i could not catch her and she healed up on her own.
Sometimes ducks can hurt themselves (like us), just by being clumsy (like us) and slipping on a wet surface, tangling a leg in a long blade of grass or performing a belly-flop landing - without the water…
If she is active, foraging, drinking and - most important - pooping, i would not worry too much about it.

 

[Duckfarmer1]

@austroberta How is your duck doing today?
Do you have any drakes or dominant ducks in your flock?
I had two cases of suddenly limping ducks last autumn and there was no obvious sign of an injury of bumblefoot visible. My prime suspects were the three young drakes from August who had just figured out the purpose of their »corkscrew« appendix. All three rather heavy birds and the two ducks more on the light side… Both healed up very well, one of them still has a slight limp when she walks slowly. Maybe just slipped tendons.

This happened in my flock too..to a very small guy...

 

[austroberta]

After cuddling Maggie Duck a bit (which she didn't liked!) i had her confined to the Duck's vacation home for one afternoon (which she liked even worse!) together with her own waterer, soft bedding and a large portion of meal-worms and cat-food (which she liked very much!).
So she was resting for more than half a day and when i released her in the evening her limp was much better and got better and better every day.
The other limping duck, another of my Magpies, was not limping bad enough, so i could not catch her and she healed up on her own.
Sometimes ducks can hurt themselves (like us), just by being clumsy (like us) and slipping on a wet surface, tangling a leg in a long blade of grass or performing a belly-flop landing - without the water…
If she is active, foraging, drinking and - most important - pooping, i would not worry too much about it.

Thanks so much! I am the quintessential duck worrier. Of course it always happens that the duck I love the most is the one that has issues. I seem to be worried about more than her. She is still doing all her ducky things and even runs. Whenever I see her pick up speed I say 'What the hey!'

 

[austroberta]

this is the best B-complex and can be found at Tractor Supply
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I do have that, but for some reason I find it infinitely easier to coax down a pill than get the liquid stuff down. (Although, I must admit that, as far as liquids go, the Durvet stuff is not viscous, so it is easier to get down).

 

[austroberta]

Selah's limp has gotten worse and I see she has taken to laying down as much as she can. I have noticed that her middle toe on the affected foot (right foot) is somewhat swollen, although the swelling is not terribly pronounced. I don't feel warmth on her foot or leg. It pretty much feels the same as the foot which does not seem affected. I was confining her to the front yard, but when I saw her limp was getting worse, today I started to put her in the duck run with her sister with a big metal bowl of water that both of them could bathe in. She has been getting an Epsom Salt soak every day before bed for 6 minutes (She doesn't seem to tolerate more than that) and Durvet's B-Complex (which I don't see her swallow.)

She's still eating, drinking and pooping well. I don't see any lethargy or depression in her at all. She's still curious and energetic, she just has to frequently sit down.

Selah is a bit of a mountain goat and she likes to climb on top of things...like my raised beds (some are 18 inches off the ground). It drives me nuts. We also have a plastic tote in the duck house where everyone sleeps and she climbs on that too, even though her foot is bothering her. When she gets down, she does hit a thick cushion of her bedding (shavings), but could it be that she is just irritating her toe with all that mountain goat stuff and preventing whatever is bothering her from healing?

Is there anything else I should be doing or should be watching out for?

 

[DuckyDonna]

Maybe you need to restrict her movement and put her in a safe place to rest her injury so she's not able to climb on all that stuff. If anything just to see if that helps. I'm sure she won't like it but it's for her own good.

 

[austroberta]

Maybe you need to restrict her movement and put her in a safe place to rest her injury so she's not able to climb on all that stuff. If anything just to see if that helps. I'm sure she won't like it but it's for her own good.

Unfortunately all the raised beds are in the duck run. I have put barriers on the tallest ones, but one of the smaller ones doesn't have a barrier. I guess I will have to put a barrier on that one.

 

[Duckfarmer1]

If you can’t see her drink the b complex, can you give it to her on a tasty treat? Like in a tomato or on meal worms? Something you know she’ll scarf down? The b complex helps soooo much! The rest is very important. I know it’s hard to do it to her. But, if she doesn’t get restricted from movement, she won’t heal. If she doesn’t love the Epsom salt soak...you could put some on a paper towel and wrap her foot for a bit. I did that for my duck with a broken leg...so, it’s not usually necessary for your deal...but if she doesn’t like the soak, you could try it? When I have a hurt duck, I put them in a special cage...like the size of a dog crate. But where they can be around others. Can you do something like that so she’s still not trying to move so much? My duck that broke his leg, is permanantly disabled. He has his own nighttime pen...during the day he mostly stays with the goats...he likes them. It’s too much for him to try to keep up with the other ducks and he wears himself out. I try to put him out with them for an hour, if the weathe4 isn’t too bad. Good luck. Perhaps you could post pictures of her toe?