Help with injured Duck Foot

[Jenbirdee]

The best supplement to strengthen a duck legs is niacin in the form of niacinamide and the best product we have found to use for Ducks is liquid bcomplex - I know it says injectable, but it is given orally to Ducks one ML per day with a syringe with no needle on it carefully down one side of their mouth, following instructions from here
https://www.backyardchickens.com/ar...dications-to-all-poultry-and-waterfowl.73335/

Pictures showing the bottom of the feet will be helpful
Pictures of the legs and how they hang down is one different than the other? Are there any swollen areas?
Carefully feel up and down the legs for any abnormalities any lumps or any warm areas
Also, if you can make a video
Of how it is trying to walk or not walk
Here is the liquid b complex that we use

 

[Sabswan327]

Hi sorry it’s been a crazy few days, with my husband ending up in the ER. Here are some pictures of her feet. The one where the webbing isn’t spaced out is the foot in question. The other foot I just healed of bumble foot. @Jenbirdee

 

[CherishedFowlGuardian]

Hi sorry it’s been a crazy few days, with my husband ending up in the ER. Here are some pictures of her feet. The one where the webbing isn’t spaced out is the foot in question. The other foot I just healed of bumble foot. @Jenbirdee

Do what @Jenbirdee said, and it should be better.

 

[Jenbirdee]

The third picture and the fifth picture looks like a big bumble under the foot is that the one you are saying that is healed now? It does not look healed. You can soak her foot in Epson salt water lukewarm. I like to use a 5 gallon bucket and cut a hole in the lid for her head to stick out this way. She can’t drink any of the Epson salt water will give her diarrhea.
Then you need to continue putting a bandage on it with a nice blob of Epson salt poultice use a gauze pad and Vet wrap. Change it every day is when it’s when you’re able to remove the corn inside of it then pack it full of antibiotic ointment and continue to do the bandaging.

 

[Sabswan327]

Thank you I’ll keep I posted

 

[Sabswan327]

@Jenbirdee
It is not getting better. He is eating and drinking and wants so bad to be out of that cage. But he can not walk. Idk what to do.

 

[Jenbirdee]

You can make a support structure with a laundry basket and a towel and some clips where you cut holes for the duck’s legs to hang through clip the towel to both sides of the basket so it’s a sling that holds the duck up.
I know people like @ruthhope have experience with this.
I’ll try to gather more information on it and post again shortly

 

[ruthhope]

Is he still swimming? Do his legs and feet move equally? Can he control where he swims normally?

I'm not seeing anything in the photos that says broken bone. I do see the bumble that @Jenbirdee flagged up.

If he can swim normally but he limps when walking, you have to persist with bumble foot treatment (epsom salt soaks and a poultice wrapped in vet wrap.

If he cannot walk at all, there is something else going on. Can you gently move all the joints in his leg from hip down?

I have used a ducky wheelchair chair to support a duck that stopped walking. It was too heavy for the duck to move himself--it was made from HDPE pipe and angles from a bigbox home improvement store. But the duck that used it adjusted quickly to not walking. I tried using the same wheel chair this spring for a juvenile pekin drake and could not contain him in it: it had broad velcro straps that went across his back, but he threw himself out. I placed him in a new lightweight wheel chair that he could move himself, but he threw himself out of that. I suspect your young drake would be the same. I ended up suspending him in a tote bag with holes for his legs to hang down and his head and chest to come out. This was the only safe way I found for suspending him. I put a hefty staff through the tote bag straps and suspended him from hastily constructed A-frame trestles, made from wood prised from a wooden palette.

The photos are taken through a dog pen that he was inside to stop the rest of the flock harassing him. His clutch mate brother is outside the pen in the photo, but he spent a lot of time inside, and swimming in a deep tote with his brother, as they were tightly bonded.

 

[Sabswan327]

You can make a support structure with a laundry basket and a towel and some clips where you cut holes for the duck’s legs to hang through clip the towel to both sides of the basket so it’s a sling that holds the duck up.
I know people like @ruthhope have experience with this.
I’ll try to gather more information on it and post again shortly

Ok. Thx, I was literally just saying to my daughter if only there was a way that I could make it so he doesn’t put any pressure on his leg. But then won’t his muscles be weak when he does, and he will be flipping around like he is now? I wish I could make him a cast or something. Not what I expected when owning a duck

 

[Jenbirdee]

Here’s a bumble foot article https://www.backyardchickens.com/ar...our-chickens-with-surgery-graphic-pics.47705/