- Apr 27, 2017
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My eight week old ducks have been free ranging with their mom and dad for a couple weeks now and just yesterday the mom took them down to our creek for the first time, which involves traveling down a somewhat steep embankment. When I went down in the evening to make sure they made it back up safely, they did, but one was huddled against a bush lying down looking miserable. Went to get her and she tried to run and I saw that she was limping so badly it was like her foot didn't work. I finally caught her and she is having a couple days of rest in my bathtub. I felt her foot and one toe seems swollen and also the underside of the center of the foot, where the toes come out from (sorry idk the word!). I didn't want to get a pic since I don't want to handle her and upset her but it honestly doesn't look like much anyway. I was just reading about bumblefoot but it seems like that is usually caused first by an abrasion? And she does not have that. I guess I'm wondering if anyone has seen a duck get an injury like this and if there's any possibility of it healing up with a few days of sitting staying off of it. Being that it's about to be a long weekend, I have no hope of seeing a vet for several days, but we don't have many good avian vets in my area anyway 
