limping duck, no visible injury

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one of my ducks has had a minor limp for a few days now, not to the point shes struggling to walk but its definitely gotten more noticeable. ive checked her feet and she doesnt have bumblefoot, so im kind of at a loss for what to do now since ive never had to deal with many injuries before
 
please post pictures of her legs while she’s standing, And under her feet. Look at and Feel her legs from top to bottom carefully and feet for any warm/hot areas or swelling.
-what do you feed her
-how old is she
-does she live with other ducks
-are there any drakes / what’s your ratio
-do you supplement with any form of niacin
?
 
please post pictures of her legs while she’s standing, And under her feet. Look at and Feel her legs from top to bottom carefully and feet for any warm/hot areas or swelling.
-what do you feed her
-how old is she
-does she live with other ducks
-are there any drakes / what’s your ratio
-do you supplement with any form of niacin
?
Same questions :goodpost:
 
please post pictures of her legs while she’s standing, And under her feet. Look at and Feel her legs from top to bottom carefully and feet for any warm/hot areas or swelling.
-what do you feed her
-how old is she
-does she live with other ducks
-are there any drakes / what’s your ratio
-do you supplement with any form of niacin
?
ill post pictures when i get home from school
i feed them agriflock all flock feed, its the only one my stepdad will get us but ive been trying to get him to buy duck specific food for a while now
shes under a year old, we got her in either june or july
she lives with 4 other ducks, no drakes
we dont have any niacin supplements right now other than them just getting a bunch of mealworms every other day, but shes stopped eating those. ill look to see if i can get my parents to take me to buy something else to supplement in their regular food
 
ill post pictures when i get home from school
i feed them agriflock all flock feed, its the only one my stepdad will get us but ive been trying to get him to buy duck specific food for a while now
shes under a year old, we got her in either june or july
she lives with 4 other ducks, no drakes
we dont have any niacin supplements right now other than them just getting a bunch of mealworms every other day, but shes stopped eating those. ill look to see if i can get my parents to take me to buy something else to supplement in their regular food
I know that not all feed labels has niacin/B3 but do you happen to know how much niacin/B3 is in the feed?
 
Ok no rush.
bag doesnt list anything, no warm areas, swelling on one toe but i dont see any injury. also got a video of her walking to show what it looks like. its not too bad and i probably wouldnt have noticed if it werent for her not running to get snacks anymore, but it has definitely gotten worse over the last 24 hours so im thinking its a recent injury, especially since last night there was (to my memory) no swelling anywhere 20251020_152128.jpg image000002.jpg Screenshot_20251020_164839_Gallery.jpg
 
How can a feed bag not have a label? Do you remember the name of it so we can look it up online and find out what it is?
Foot looks OK I’m just concerned about the Feed because Ducks need more niacin than chickens and whenever one of my decks start moving the first thing I do is give her this 1 ml per day You can put it in a small dish of mealworms or other treats, she will eat Make sure she eats it all. It can also be given directly orally with a syringe that has no needle on it. It has to go down the right side back of their throat. Make sure it doesn’t go into the wind pipe (trachea), which is in the center. I will post instructions. But yeah, we need to find out what she’s eating.
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