Injured duckling

It’s in the house in a brooder. Did you watch the videos?

Thanks for asking. It looked better than I thought. But the next few hours will determine more and be critical to have a better idea what's going on.

Some people will do pool therapy sometimes (for weightlessness) to reduce stress on the body with ducks and ducklings don't they? What do you think? (Although unattended while injured as a young duckling could be worse.) I'm thinking it might be useful to also see how it moves the leg, injured area in weightlessness, water possibly? (But not for very long.)
 
Well right now, one thing you can do for sure is to watch if its still able to eat, drink, and poop. It sounds simple, but this is one of the things people will watch with sick animals.

You don't have to have it eat right away, but just see if it will still be able to eat in the next few hours.

If you isolate the duckling, you could try to bring it in the house and put it in a box to nurse it back to health. But because their minds are herd animals where the social network and herd is safety that could stress it out even more if there's not a second (or third?) duckling with it, to help keep it from panicking even more. But bringing it into the house to keep a closer eye and better watch over it may give you some recovery advantages.

On top of watching if its eating, drinking, and pooping you will be able to watch it closer inside to determine if there's internal bleeding, such as with blood in its stool, etc. And some blood might not be a game over, it may depend on how much there is.

It wouldn't hurt also to do hand feedings for a bit, or various means of helping it eat and drink also to reduce travel stress on wounded body parts for a while.
Thank you so very much! This is very helpful
 
I think she will she seemed pretty spunky. Jumping up on your daughter. Has she eaten or drank and pooped?
Yes, when I went to get this video we were so surprised to see the energy she had. My daughter said she ate and drank and we will watch to make sure she continues. We have two of them so I’m not sure which one has pooped but there is poop. Should I separate her from the other to know for sure? It just seems like they don’t like being apart from each other which is why we’ve kept them together. But the poop that we see all looks normal.
thank you so much for your help
 
Okay your just going to have to keep her where you can keep an eye on her and her poop. Only other option is a vet. Has she eaten?

if my ducks were sick, I would want to bring them to the vet. But here where I am all vets are closed due to Covid-19. So maybe if your vets are closed you would have to find another plan.
 

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