Handicap duck

[Dulzura]

One of my duck is handicap, and she is suffering from such a pain in her legs, she can't stand, quacking loudly, rolling her paddles in feathers, not feeling active, and also facing pain in her stomach.
Kindly help me.

 

[Isaac 0]

I'm sorry to hear your duck is having problems.

To let us help you better, could you provide some additional information?

How long has she not been able to walk? How old is she? What is she being fed? Have you inspected her legs, and felt for swelling, warm spots, lesions on the bottom of her feet, and looked for signs of discoloration?

Do you have any pictures or a video of her?

 

[Dulzura]

I'm sorry to hear your duck is having problems.

To let us help you better, could you provide some additional information?

How long has she not been able to walk? How old is she? What is she being fed? Have you inspected her legs, and felt for swelling, warm spots, lesions on the bottom of her feet, and looked for signs of discoloration?

Do you have any pictures or a video of her?

She is 6 years old, and when she was 1 year old she lost her one leg and become a handicap, now she is facing pain her second one leg, she mostly eats tomatoes, banana, ceralac, rice, and grains. No i don't see any spots or lesions, but yes her knee was swelled up. Let me share you her picture.

 

[Isaac 0]

Often times when ducks have some sort of existing leg problem, that discourages them from practicing normal duck activities, they often develop other problems related to inactivity such as bumblefoot sores on their leg or foot, wet feather, long nails, septic arthritis, among others.

Your bird is getting fairly old, so the risk of those conditions are going to increase. It would be helpful to see pictures of the swelled part of her leg, but at this point, you really want to focus on letting her bathe in water to relieve the weight off her legs, and if wanted, add Epsom salts to the water every few days to help reduce the swelling. If she only has one leg, supervision would be advised.

When she is out of the water, never keep her on any hard surface, she needs to be on something soft. I see you're located in Pakistan, so you probably won't be able to get her on a diet for poultry. It may be good to add more foods into her diet, especially greens to help her overall health. It is possible there is an infection in the joint. In which case it would be best to either take her to a vet, or start her on an antibiotic.

Basing on the picture, it looks like she may benefit from a nail trimming.

 

[Dulzura]

Often times when ducks have some sort of existing leg problem, that discourages them from practicing normal duck activities, they often develop other problems related to inactivity such as bumblefoot sores on their leg or foot, wet feather, long nails, septic arthritis, among others.

Your bird is getting fairly old, so the risk of those conditions are going to increase. It would be helpful to see pictures of the swelled part of her leg, but at this point, you really want to focus on letting her bathe in water to relieve the weight off her legs, and if wanted, add Epsom salts to the water every few days to help reduce the swelling. If she only has one leg, supervision would be advised.

When she is out of the water, never keep her on any hard surface, she needs to be on something soft. I see you're located in Pakistan, so you probably won't be able to get her on a diet for poultry. It may be good to add more foods into her diet, especially greens to help her overall health. It is possible there is an infection in the joint. In which case it would be best to either take her to a vet, or start her on an antibiotic.

Basing on the picture, it looks like she may benefit from a nail trimming.

Alright. Yes i felt the wet feathers last day, exactly in pakistan their is no such a diet food for ducks, I'm giving my best to feed her, she lives with me all the time in side my room. I'll give her a salt warm bath again. Today she felt much better than yesterday but not that much.

 

[Dulzura]

Alright. Yes i felt the wet feathers last day, exactly in pakistan their is no such a diet food for ducks, I'm giving my best to feed her, she lives with me all the time in side my room. I'll give her a salt warm bath again. Today she felt much better than yesterday but not that much.

This one, she is facing pain.

 

[Dulzura]

And this leg is damaged, when she was 1 year old.

 

[Isaac 0]

In the second picture, she does have a sore at the hock joint. Without cytology done it's hard to know, but it seems that very well could be the cause of the swelling in that leg. Are you able to obtain antibiotics like Amoxicillin in your location?

 

[Dulzura]

In the second picture, she does have a sore at the hock joint. Without cytology done it's hard to know, but it seems that very well could be the cause of the swelling in that leg. Are you able to obtain antibiotics like Amoxicillin in your location?

Yes this antibiotic is available.

 

[Isaac 0]

Yes this antibiotic is available.

How about Cephalexin, Enrofloxacin, or Ciprofloxacin? Anyone of those would be better than the Amoxicillin, although the amoxicillin will be fine if you don't have those readily available.