That doesn't sound too good, but that's what's happening.
One of our Swedish Blue(or is it Blue Swedish?) ducks, the female, has been limping ever since the middle of...I would say spring, but it could have been earlier or later. I can't remember exactly, go ahead and poke fun at me.
We were fine and getting eggs, usually two every other day, and this was when the duck was limping, but it wasn't too bad. She'd been doing this for a while, like I said, since maybe March or so, and we were used to it. It might have hurt her some, but she got around all right, she jumped the lip of the barn door just fine, and she didn't act like it pained her much---just limped around an awful lot.
She was acting like your normal every day duck aside from the limping, laying her eggs and hanging out with her boy, but slowly the eggs began to disappear.
Now, her condition didn't worsen or anything at this time, maybe late May, early June, but she stopped laying eggs. We had been planning to get a male duck, which we finally did, so we could breed the two and maybe have ducklings, since we're in need of ducks, but didn't want to pay for them, and we really wanted the girl to go the duck equivalent of broody and sit, but she wouldn't, and the hope that had been left just shriveled up and died when she stopped laying eggs.
So...this is what's been going on for about a month. I did read online that ducks stop laying eggs when they're stressed or traumatized, but I wouldn't think she's traumatized, and the poor thing is always stressed for no apparent reason; you can't stand ten feet away from her without her honking her bill off and rushing away, which always irritates her gimpy leg.
I would just absolutely appreciate any information, opinions, facts, thoughts, concerns, or worries on this. We have no idea what to do. Should we move her away somewhere different, where she's not as stressed out? Right now, she and her drake are free-rangers along with our chickens and turkey. During the day she's fine, it's only when we come near her, which we hardly ever have to do. You can't even be in the same room, namely our barn room, with her.
Any ideas as to what we can do, or what might be wrong with her leg? I think she's stopped laying because of stress, but I can't be too sure.
Questions, comments, concerns...?
One of our Swedish Blue(or is it Blue Swedish?) ducks, the female, has been limping ever since the middle of...I would say spring, but it could have been earlier or later. I can't remember exactly, go ahead and poke fun at me.
We were fine and getting eggs, usually two every other day, and this was when the duck was limping, but it wasn't too bad. She'd been doing this for a while, like I said, since maybe March or so, and we were used to it. It might have hurt her some, but she got around all right, she jumped the lip of the barn door just fine, and she didn't act like it pained her much---just limped around an awful lot.
She was acting like your normal every day duck aside from the limping, laying her eggs and hanging out with her boy, but slowly the eggs began to disappear.
Now, her condition didn't worsen or anything at this time, maybe late May, early June, but she stopped laying eggs. We had been planning to get a male duck, which we finally did, so we could breed the two and maybe have ducklings, since we're in need of ducks, but didn't want to pay for them, and we really wanted the girl to go the duck equivalent of broody and sit, but she wouldn't, and the hope that had been left just shriveled up and died when she stopped laying eggs.
So...this is what's been going on for about a month. I did read online that ducks stop laying eggs when they're stressed or traumatized, but I wouldn't think she's traumatized, and the poor thing is always stressed for no apparent reason; you can't stand ten feet away from her without her honking her bill off and rushing away, which always irritates her gimpy leg.
I would just absolutely appreciate any information, opinions, facts, thoughts, concerns, or worries on this. We have no idea what to do. Should we move her away somewhere different, where she's not as stressed out? Right now, she and her drake are free-rangers along with our chickens and turkey. During the day she's fine, it's only when we come near her, which we hardly ever have to do. You can't even be in the same room, namely our barn room, with her.
Any ideas as to what we can do, or what might be wrong with her leg? I think she's stopped laying because of stress, but I can't be too sure.
Questions, comments, concerns...?
