Limping duck, brewers yeast or vitamin B?

[pond]

Hi all

My favourite White Crested female duck, Bessie, started limping all of a sudden 6 days ago. I'm quite confused as to what's happening, so I will describe the whole situation.

I have 5 ducks total: 3 females 2 drakes and some 12 chickens. The drakes are quite aggressive and try to mate with my hens as well. I have 2 hens that all of a sudden started limping very badly a few months ago. I separated them, but they never recovered. The rest of the hens are perfectly fine.

One of my female ducks is much older, around 10 years old. She started limping a couple of years ago, but it came on and was progressing slowly. I first checked for bumble foot, but couldn't find anything wrong with her foot. She has never recovered despite me making changes in her diet. I'm feeding my ducks and chickens Organic Baby Chick Starter (Purina). Ever since my older duck started limping, I'm adding some boiled, cut up beef to their feed and sprinkle it with brewers yeast (brand photo below). I've always been buying brewers yeast meant for human consumption. I have only learned today, that it's also produced for poultry. Duh...

Coming back to Bessie, The first day she wasn't limping too bad, so I separated the drakes, as I thought it was their fault. The next day she stopped putting any weight on that leg. I took her to a vet. After almost $400 I've learned that the foot is not broken and there are no fractures. The leg is swollen in a joint. As per vet it's either damage to soft tissue or infection. I left her in a large cage for a couple of days (and was gone for the weekend). I let her out of the cage last night - she is still not using her leg! I put her in the pond, and she cleaned herself, but got out quite quickly.

I have just taken photos of her legs - the good one, and two photos of the bad one. Now I think this may be bumble foot. Should I give her antibiotics? Is the brewers yeast I have good enough? I didn't give them any for the past couple of months, because I ran out and couldn't get any. Should I give vitamin B instead? I'm guessing I should buy something that's for animals, and not humans. I have Nature Made super B-complex at home, but I looked and it contains Vitamin C as well. Can I crush it and give her that as well? What exactly is the dosage?

Thank you all.
Lidia

 

[pond]

Btw, this is what I have on hands - Terramycin. Can I use it? It is an ointment. Is there any antibiotic I should give her to consume?

 

[pond]

Found one more I have. Any pointers on which one and how to use appreciated.

 

[Stipenvlerk]

Hi all

My favourite White Crested female duck, Bessie, started limping all of a sudden 6 days ago. I'm quite confused as to what's happening, so I will describe the whole situation.

I have 5 ducks total: 3 females 2 drakes and some 12 chickens. The drakes are quite aggressive and try to mate with my hens as well. I have 2 hens that all of a sudden started limping very badly a few months ago. I separated them, but they never recovered. The rest of the hens are perfectly fine.

One of my female ducks is much older, around 10 years old. She started limping a couple of years ago, but it came on and was progressing slowly. I first checked for bumble foot, but couldn't find anything wrong with her foot. She has never recovered despite me making changes in her diet. I'm feeding my ducks and chickens Organic Baby Chick Starter (Purina). Ever since my older duck started limping, I'm adding some boiled, cut up beef to their feed and sprinkle it with brewers yeast (brand photo below). I've always been buying brewers yeast meant for human consumption. I have only learned today, that it's also produced for poultry. Duh...

Coming back to Bessie, The first day she wasn't limping too bad, so I separated the drakes, as I thought it was their fault. The next day she stopped putting any weight on that leg. I took her to a vet. After almost $400 I've learned that the foot is not broken and there are no fractures. The leg is swollen in a joint. As per vet it's either damage to soft tissue or infection. I left her in a large cage for a couple of days (and was gone for the weekend). I let her out of the cage last night - she is still not using her leg! I put her in the pond, and she cleaned herself, but got out quite quickly.

I have just taken photos of her legs - the good one, and two photos of the bad one. Now I think this may be bumble foot. Should I give her antibiotics? Is the brewers yeast I have good enough? I didn't give them any for the past couple of months, because I ran out and couldn't get any. Should I give vitamin B instead? I'm guessing I should buy something that's for animals, and not humans. I have Nature Made super B-complex at home, but I looked and it contains Vitamin C as well. Can I crush it and give her that as well? What exactly is the dosage?

Thank you all.
Lidia


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Limping is not perse strong associated with a vitamin b3 deficiency (can't be ruled out entirely either so won't hurt to supplement for it).
When I see the picture of the foot, I see a black scab on the right toe that possibly can be painful.
Please start soaking her foot in epsom salt for a few times a day and try to get the black off.

@Isaac 0 wrote an article about niacin deficiency which is a sticky thread in the Duck forum

 

[Titantherooster]

How did this turn out? I have a similar situation with my Pekin female. Raised her from duckling and was fine but developed bumble and we gave her anti biopics but infection likely still in her joint. It’s been near a month now and she does use it more but I think it will be a long time before she is back to normal. Curious to know how things went with your duck?