Limping Duck, 8 months old

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My plan is to feed her some peas in the afternoon, then give her a luke-warm bath and release her for the night to the rest of the flock. I don't want her to sleep alone. She will be rested and well fed and doesn't need to compete for the supper bowl in the evening.
What do you think?
 
Miss Lydia said:
Well might be safer for her to have a sleep over maybe with a few girls?in her hospital coop. Only problem I would see is if your drake hasn’t mated her today he may go for her.
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That's the strange thing: Both drakes don't mate in the duck house!
The problem with the Vacation Home is, that it is not as predator proved as the duck-house. It is not screwed to the platform for example.
 
Runner duck mom said:
She will enjoy a warm bath and some peas very much :)
We are having leg issues with one of our ducks, watching this and hoping for a speedy recovery for your girl.
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She really enjoyed her bath very, very, very much! She was surrounded by most of her flock-mates who tried to drink out the bathtub. Peas weren't the big hit - no idea why. :confused:
While she was bathing, i observed that she was moving her leg almost normal in the water, but when she tried to scratch her head, she could not get her foot out of the water and squeaked every time she tried.
And yes, »Erpelchen« started that head-bobbing game again, but one look of me and he walked away - boy i must have looked at him as if i would swallow him whole! In the afternoon he had started a fight with Limpy and in the end i grabbed him and pinned him to the ground for five (5!) minutes, ranting at him. :rant
Maggie is still not able to walk, so tomorrow will be another hospital day for her. She hates it! But resting will help her, i hope. :fl
 
Update on Maggie:

A mixed bag! She didn't want to come out of the duck house this morning, but looked at me and was peeping, so i picked her up and had her on my lap during the morning meal-worm frenzy. She ate a lot of meal-worms and cat-kibbles and the other ducks were terribly jealous but did not peck at her.

She was able to get around a little bit, tumbled into a water pan to wash and cool herself down, where i picked her up again and held her while my wife did a two-hand examination.

Maggie has less muscle in her left thigh than in the right one and her left leg seems to be a bit tinier. As she is from Ideal-Poultry whose ducklings have been of doubtful standards (@Magnolia Ducks ,@Texag87 ) recently, could Maggies problems be inherited? I had observed in the past that one of the Magpie ducks was slightly limping from time to time, but i don't know if it was Maggie or one of her sisters…

She is now sitting with the rest of the flock in the shade under our huge tulip-tree, when we were approaching the hospital house, she started squeaking and wiggling as if to say "please not another day in jail!" and i caved in and dropped her off at her friends… :oops:
 
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