Duck with both leg lameness, Almost like Superman/Flying pose

[KaleIAm]

Thank you for your advice i had just googled antinflamatories for ducks and tramadol popped up, so thats where I came up with that. I will search for the calcium today and dog around in my medicine cabinet as I may have some gabapentin tucked away. Are other pain meds you would recommend? For my dogs i use Resources pain plus which is an herbal anti-inflammatory, but I don't know if it would work for ducks.

Oh, that's interesting about your Google search. My understanding is that tramadol does not have an anti inflammatory affect.

My vet explained to me that anti inflammatory medication is beneficial in helping birds lay an egg that is stuck because the tissues and muscles can get swollen with repeated contractions. This makes the passage even smaller and harder for the egg to be layed. And of course it also helps with pain.

My vet always gives me metacam for an anti inflammatory, but you'll probably have to get that from a veterinarian. Do you have access to an avian vet? I've heard of other members giving aspirin to their birds, but I don't know the dosage.

For gabapentin, I ran out of my bird dosage once but I had some for my small cat. I thought I would just give my bird 1/4 of my cat's dose or something similar. But when I looked at the bottles the cat dose was 100x higher than the bird dose! I didn't want to try compounding it down, so I went to the vet and got a bird specific dose. My point of telling you this is because I think birds are sensitive to this medication and need very little of it. I wouldn't want you to accidentally overdose her.

 

[danceonweeds]

Oh, that's interesting about your Google search. My understanding is that tramadol does not have an anti inflammatory affect.

My vet explained to me that anti inflammatory medication is beneficial in helping birds lay an egg that is stuck because the tissues and muscles can get swollen with repeated contractions. This makes the passage even smaller and harder for the egg to be layed. And of course it also helps with pain.

My vet always gives me metacam for an anti inflammatory, but you'll probably have to get that from a veterinarian. Do you have access to an avian vet? I've heard of other members giving aspirin to their birds, but I don't know the dosage.

For gabapentin, I ran out of my bird dosage once but I had some for my small cat. I thought I would just give my bird 1/4 of my cat's dose or something similar. But when I looked at the bottles the cat dose was 100x higher than the bird dose! I didn't want to try compounding it down, so I went to the vet and got a bird specific dose. My point of telling you this is because I think birds are sensitive to this medication and need very little of it. I wouldn't want you to accidentally overdose her.

Good advice. Im reading that Gabapentin dose is 10mg/kg, so a 2 lb duck would get 10mg. Which would be a little less than a 10th of a 100mg capsule. It would definitely hard to divide it so small