Duckling Diaries: the Life and Times of a Welshie Trio

[BantyChooks]

Well get through, are you still letting her have baths? Epsom salts added?

Yes to baths, haven't added epsom salts yet

 

[duluthralphie]

Yes to baths, haven't added epsom salts yet

I thought someone else suggested Epsom salt, but I could be in error. Of course. That would be a first.

 

[casportpony]

Okay, so I have missed a whole bunch of posts (sorry). Is this the duck with the injured leg and head?

-Kathy

 

[casportpony]

Quote: I hate to say it, but I think you are correct. It actually look like frostbite maybe?

-Kathy

 

[room onthebroom]

Any exotic avian vets in your area that could look at that? I'm glad she's eating again!

 

[BantyChooks]

Okay, so I have missed a whole bunch of posts (sorry). Is this the duck with the injured leg and head?

-Kathy

Yes. She is doing very well other than this leg.

I hate to say it, but I think you are correct. It actually look like frostbite maybe?

-Kathy

Yes, I am thinking frostbite as well. A week or so ago it was swollen, and now it's shriveled.
When I found them, her friends were nearly cold and her wounds were not fresh, so I am assuming she sat with her web exposed to the cold for the whole night.

I thought someone else suggested Epsom salt, but I could be in error. Of course. That would be a first.

Yeah, Liz did a bit ago.

 

[duluthralphie]

I am going to suggest something radical... Unlike the Epsom filled bathtub... Which I seem to recall a man recommending...

I am assuming you do not have any avian vets handy, I doubt there are any in all of Iceland. Or that you do not want to spend the money this could cost. If I am wrong, sorry.

I think while she is in pain I would put a castrating donut on her leg. (the small size ones used for sheep. Do they have sheep in your part of Iceland? Or will you have to ride the goat to Reykjavik?

While the thought of the donut is gross, it might be less painful at this time than when it is healed.


If she is destined to have a peg leg I would want it as good as possible.

I would then start trying to make a fake web or buy one, I assume there are no fake webfeet stores anywhere near your igloo. I would search the other web looking for one. Maybe Amazon sells them..

Good luck...

 

[DwayneNLiz]

I am going to suggest something radical... Unlike the Epsom filled bathtub... Which I seem to recall a man recommending...

I am assuming you do not have any avian vets handy, I doubt there are any in all of Iceland. Or that you do not want to spend the money this could cost. If I am wrong, sorry.

I think while she is in pain I would put a castrating donut on her leg. (the small size ones used for sheep. Do they have sheep in your part of Iceland? Or will you have to ride the goat to Reykjavik?

While the thought of the donut is gross, it might be less painful at this time than when it is healed.


If she is destined to have a peg leg I would want it as good as possible.

I would then start trying to make a fake web or buy one, I assume there are no fake webfeet stores anywhere near your igloo. I would search the other web looking for one. Maybe Amazon sells them..

Good luck...

someone made a fake web with a 3d printer, really cool!!

and it was not a man, it was ME

 

[BantyChooks]

I am going to suggest something radical... Unlike the Epsom filled bathtub... Which I seem to recall a man recommending...

I am assuming you do not have any avian vets handy, I doubt there are any in all of Iceland.  Or that you do not want to spend the money this could cost. If I am wrong, sorry.

I think while she is in pain I would put a castrating donut on her leg. (the small size ones used for sheep. Do they have sheep in your part of Iceland?  Or will you have to ride the goat to Reykjavik? 

While the thought of the donut is gross, it might be less painful at this time  than when it is healed.


If she is destined to have a peg leg I would want it as good as possible. 

I would then start trying to make a fake web or buy one, I assume there are no fake webfeet stores anywhere near your igloo. I would search the other web looking for one. Maybe Amazon sells them..

Good luck...

Can't afford anything other than one checkup, and you know how people in the med professions are... "Well, it might recover more on its own, so wait two weeks and you can come back and give me more money "

I don't exactly know that she's in pain. I watch her carefully while I'm out of sight, and she splashes around in her water bowl, stands up on the one good web, and in general acts perky. And there is too sheep, even a donkey or two maybe.

No comment on the igloo...

 

[duluthralphie]

someone made a fake web with a 3d printer, really cool!!

and it was not a man, it was ME

Oh no, It was me!!!


I think I did it in a pm though because, well I have a reputation to protect...

I think a trip to a tool store or a farm store would have something to use as a web for the duck.

My 3D printer is on the fritz right now, and I doubt they have one in all of her country of origin.... Especially on the NorthWest shore where she lives.

I am amazed I was the one that figured out she is Icelandic...