foundpekin
Hatching
- Sep 25, 2020
- 1
- 3
- 3
Hello, Barnyard Chickens community!
I found you because I've been hunting up ways to help this 2-3 week old Pekin duckling I found alone in a parking lot. Its legs are bowed and it steps on its own feet and tumbles over often. When I put my question in the search bar, a person named Nicole was asking a similar question. I wanted to follow the conversation further. We've had the fuzzy duckling for almost a week. We are considering keeping it as a pet instead of turning it over to a rehabber. My adult daughter lives with us and is totally in love with it already. I had read that niacin helps the vitamin deficiency. I bought Brewer's Yeast and have shaken it over all its meals for about 3-4 days now. It's still tripping over its own feet but is very hungry, happy and chirpy. It's already attached to us and chases us if we walk away. It chirps frantically, like crying, when we leave it alone in a closed room. So my question is: would the bow legs need bracing or some kind of therapy? Or are we fine just keeping on giving it the niacin in the food and hope for the best? Here's a picture of the little one.
I found you because I've been hunting up ways to help this 2-3 week old Pekin duckling I found alone in a parking lot. Its legs are bowed and it steps on its own feet and tumbles over often. When I put my question in the search bar, a person named Nicole was asking a similar question. I wanted to follow the conversation further. We've had the fuzzy duckling for almost a week. We are considering keeping it as a pet instead of turning it over to a rehabber. My adult daughter lives with us and is totally in love with it already. I had read that niacin helps the vitamin deficiency. I bought Brewer's Yeast and have shaken it over all its meals for about 3-4 days now. It's still tripping over its own feet but is very hungry, happy and chirpy. It's already attached to us and chases us if we walk away. It chirps frantically, like crying, when we leave it alone in a closed room. So my question is: would the bow legs need bracing or some kind of therapy? Or are we fine just keeping on giving it the niacin in the food and hope for the best? Here's a picture of the little one.