Help! Duck with dead foot

[Bekah93]

My neighbor found a young paradise duck with nylon wrapped around its ankles, one foot is dead and the other it can just stand on so may be ok. No lesions or broken skin. Does a dead foot need to be amputated even if there are no lesions?

 

[nuthatched]

Can you get pictures?

 

[MGG]

My neighbor found a young paradise duck with nylon wrapped around its ankles, one foot is dead and the other it can just stand on so may be ok. No lesions or broken skin. Does a dead foot need to be amputated even if there are no lesions?

Definitely post pictures. A paradise duck? Is it a Paradise Shelduck?

 

[Bekah93]

Definitely post pictures. A paradise duck? Is it a Paradise Shelduck?

Just asked her to send me some now, yep paradise Shelduck, new zealand

 

[Bekah93]

Can you get pictures?

Just asked my neighbor to take some, hopefully won't upset it too much. Aparently its hopping along and at least was drinking