Help!!! Only on hocks!

[BB Farm]

Forgot to mention, I also did warm epsom salt soaks and sometimes would do compress with self stick gauze. Massages here and there as well.

How long do you normally let them soak in warm epsom salt? Also, is regular store brand safe to use? You would just wrap the hocks in gauze? Any particular way?

 

[Miss Lydia]

B complex is best when treating for niacin deficiency.

Is a vet an option? can you bend the legs down so they are straight? if slipped tendon the legs won't bend straight down like he is standing.

 

[BB Farm]

B complex is best when treating for niacin deficiency.

Is a vet an option? can you bend the legs down so they are straight? if slipped tendon the legs won't bend straight down like he is standing.

I can manipulate it down a little bit, but it does not go straight, and if I do that his foot is unable to go perpendicular as if he could not walk on the bottom of his foot, as if he were on his tippy toes,(if that makes any since because I’m terrible at explaining things ) as if he has no ankle mobility his whole foot is straight after the hock joint with the flipper. I, however, just recently graduated and don’t start work for a couple weeks so I’m trying to figure out if i can get help from family to get him to a vet as I want to do everything I can for him!!! Kind of just hard times right now so was seeing if it was something i could try on my own first. I attached two pictures one with me, trying to pull the leg down to straighten out the hock joint and another trying to flatten his foot “bend the ankle”

 

[Miss Lydia]

It could be slipped tendons, If at all possible getting him to a vet would be best. It could be it's too late to do anything but walking on his hocks will eventually cause his skin to break down so I'd keep him where you can keep what's under him soft and thick so he doesn't start getting something similar to bed sores. I found this It maybe worth trying even if he is older
https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/slipped-tendon-perosis.974926/

 

[JRies]

Is she able or are you to flatten the foot at the ankle

 

[JRies]

It could be slipped tendons, If at all possible getting him to a vet would be best. It could be it's too late to do anything but walking on his hocks will eventually cause his skin to break down so I'd keep him where you can keep what's under him soft and thick so he doesn't start getting something similar to bed sores. I found this It maybe worth trying even if he is older
https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/slipped-tendon-perosis.974926/

Miss Lydia in the picture dose the left toe look right Im only asking because I have been treating a 1 year old that went down and stayed down by day 2 I figured out she had broke that toe in 2 places. She has been down for 5 weeks but this week she started putting pressure on it.

 

[BB Farm]

Is she able or are you to flatten the foot at the ankle

No

 

[JRies]

No

Do her bones in her toe's all seem stable and in line

 

[Miss Lydia]

I think the feet and toes are fine it's the hocks and the fact the duckling can bend the legs down to stand and walk normal.
@BB Farm show us the other foot and toes for comparison please

 

[BB Farm]

Do her bones in her toe's all seem stable and in line

Not exactly to me but these are my first ducklings and her feet have been messed up since i first got them i included pictures of both feet. How she has them with me just holding her up and then with my hand under kind of stretching them out