Mangled Duck Foot

[WVduckchick]

His name is skipper!) they were named after Gilligan Island characters so there is skipper, thurston (he's somewhat picky on his treats), Gilligan (hurt his leg and was clumsy for a while and still trips over himself) and professor (he watches the surroundings while everyone else eats there treats and then eats some himself)..
and then we have 6 hens and named 4 after the Golden Girls Blanche, Rose, Sophia and Dorothy and then the other two are Mrytle and Mayzie

Haha! I love it, especially since the names seem to fit so well!
And hopefully your hens will live to be old ladies, like the Golden Girls too

 

[Ravynscroft]

From last night.. he is super sneaky and learned, again, how to pull his gauze out. Swelling in the leg has gone down.. his ankle doesn't feel so hard and the temp on the foot has gone down. Just bought him and his siblings an 11lb bag of mealworms and they came in yesterday... they couldn't eat a handful fast enough!!! His little toe to the right is swollen but we are still so super hopeful. Anf finally, the blu kite is coming off.. slowly, but still lol. As for the clear iodine, how much does everyone usually use? Ours came with this plastic stick applicator so I just poured a little over his wounds and then wrapped him up.

I usually just use the applicator, but for a big area I would use a piece of gauze and just put it over the open top of the bottle, tip it down for a quick wetting and wipe it all down with that...

 

[Miss Lydia]

Cotton ball and qtip work well too.

 

[Laura szarkowicz]

This is from tonight. He is walking on it a little better but still has a limp and tries to put it up when he can. I know we can't get his foot looking normal again but if we could just heal up the last wound on the bottom of the foot then I think he will be good to go back with his family. The swelling in the ankle has gone down a lot but he still has a swollen bump on the bottom of his foot.

 

[Ravynscroft]

This is from tonight. He is walking on it a little better but still has a limp and tries to put it up when he can. I know we can't get his foot looking normal again but if we could just heal up the last wound on the bottom of the foot then I think he will be good to go back with his family. The swelling in the ankle has gone down a lot but he still has a swollen bump on the bottom of his foot.

The blackened areas are worrying me... any scabs still on the foot? Might try gently removing some after a good ssoaking, see if there is infection under them...

@casportpony

 

[Laura szarkowicz]

I'm really hoping a lot of the dark areas is just the blu kote.. he does have some scans and one that was peeling off after last nights soak and everything looked good

 

[Miss Lydia]

Awesome work.

 

[Laura szarkowicz]

Today we made the decision to let him out and join his friends.. all wounds looks to be infection free. He does have a limp, but, he has been having fun with his friends all day. They do go in the pond but don't venture off far, they stay pretty close to the land.. he had such a blast today being back out! We are going to watch him and continue to check his foot.. it was hard seeing him go back.. out of everything we did, I wish there was more we could've done. Thank you all for your advice while we freaked out!

 

[Laura szarkowicz]

Going to sleep

 

[Ravynscroft]

Going to sleep

Awww!!!