Injured duck leg- possibly broken. Need advice!

[doewing]

Heard you can split the leg so it can heal? It scoots around using the other side.

 

[flashy43]

Thanks for the input. Ever since we noticed something as wrong, we kept her separated from the drake but so they could still see each other. We try to give her a bath several times a week to clean her up as she ends up smelling due to not moving her tail feathers when she poops and then filling the bath up so she can float.

We are also looking for a vet that will do stuff for ducks etc

And I don't know to do compresses, so info about that will be great

I'm also not sure what the term 'splitting the leg' means from the comment above

 

[Amiga]

I trust they meant splinting!

 

[flashy43]

Oh right that sounds more likely thanks

 

[Twolf]

I have a duck, she is about 4 months old, she started limping yesterday and not putting weight on her foot. She will run and walk if she has to but she prefers not to. Today I scooped her up and put her in a cage outside with food and water to rest. Any thoughts. No visible injury or wounds, cant really afford to take a duck to the vet. I will if i have to but has this happened to anybody and just allowed them to rest and it fixed itself. I have had it happen to a chicken and she has healed up but walks a bit more odd than the others. Are duck as tough and hardy as chickens when it comes to wounds?

 

[helen dabie]

yes

 

[Cookiehuk2525]

Today, I went out to feed our ducks and I found one that was not walking and was using its wings to move around. This is not the first one that we had found like this. The other one had died and had the same symptoms. And I do not know what to do. It is like a displaced hip, but I could not find anything else wrong. Any advice on how to self fix it by ourselves, we had tried putting them in a smaller enclosure. Does anyone know what to do?

 

[Miss Lydia]

How old is this duck?any pictures of the leg? What did you do to try an help the first one that died. What breed?

 

[Cookiehuk2525]

How old is this duck?any pictures of the leg? What did you do to try an help the first one that died. What breed?

She is about 3 months, and we put the other one in a small enclosure really and tried to keep her as comfortable as we could. Here are some pictures.

 

[Cookiehuk2525]

How old is this duck?any pictures of the leg? What did you do to try an help the first one that died. What breed?

Also it is a Pekin.