**HELP!!! Pekin Duck With A Broken Leg!**

[DuckFanatic]

Thanks again

I hope it will heal on it's own

I can get some pictures soon but I have been outside all morning and it is killer hot out there

She mostly stays in her pool all day and doesn't use her bad leg at all... At night we put her in a pet taxi dog crate with grass hay in it... She is pretty aggressive, either because she was just broody and still very protective because of that or because she is protecting herself because she feels vulnerable.... or both... but I think it's better than being terrified of me and it's cute

I just had to put her under a picnic table I put out there with a sheet draping over it so she is in the shade with a big fan on her because the water in her pool is already warm and I just filled it

 

[chickensioux]

Sounds like it is being treated royally. I have such a soft spot for ducks. I started with one, felt sorry for it being the only duck, got another and now have 9......it's a disease.

 

[DuckFanatic]

I totally know what you mean... It started out with 5 ducklings from the feed store and we had to rehome 2.. then we got 3 more and then one of the new three had a duckling and then now the pekin and there is still many domestic ducks left at the park.. if you know what I mean

 

[dcbcaaron]

i had a mallard last spring with a broken leg, just below the joint of the knee. I took a piece of PVC pipe and cut it long ways to use as my splint. I started with 1/2 inch PVC and before i was done he had grown some, and i moved him up to 3/4 inch, so you'd need to find the size that fits snugly around is leg. I rapped his leg in gauze first so that the PVC wouldn't rub, and then i used electric tape to hold the two pieces together because it is fairly water proof, I kept in in a large dog kennel by himself so that the other ducks and chickens that i had wouldn't mess with him and 5 weeks later i put him back in with the others and 4 weeks after that released him back out on the pond, and he's still doing great full year and 3 weeks later.