I don't suppose this will be much help, but our own beloved Muscovy, Squash, turned up with a similar problem about six weeks ago. She has a life-long disability, caused by a twisted spine. But, she has always managed just fine. Then, one morning I found her cowering in the garden, hidden under a dead vine. When I got her out, her leg was clearly painful, from her foot, all the way up into her hip. I could find no break, however. She would not use the leg. I brought her inside. After three days, suddenly, her foot swelled up like a balloon! It was vast, but, interestingly, did not seem as tender as it had been. We did everything we could to make her comfortable, and slowly it got better. She once again has use of the leg, but it clearly is not as strong as it was in the past. We keep her inside, except on fine days, when she goes out. In those days, we lock up our Muscovy Drake, as we believe that the injury may have been caused by his mounting her. He is perhaps three times her size. I wish I could offer some advice! I guess I really wrote to say, they are mysterious creatures. But, resilient!
The foot flipping back should not be due to frostbite. Or at least I don't think so. Of course the frostbite because it numbed her foot could have then caused her to sprain the foot. That would have been easy for her to do.
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The foot flipping back should not be due to frostbite. Or at least I don't think so. Of course the frostbite because it numbed her foot could have then caused her to sprain the foot. That would have been easy for her to do.
Did you carefully feel the entire leg and foot?
Start as high up as you can on her body, and work your way down feeling for lumps, bumps and slightly warmer or colder areas. Then do it a second time, doing the same but gently getting all of the parts to move as they normally would and see if that causes her discomfort or any odd sounds (pops, grinding, etc)
You can compare the good side with the bad side.
She does clearly have frostbite on the webbing, and on her bad foot it looks as if she will lose part of that middle toe.
There are some edges of her bill that also look discolored (verses just differently pigmented) that worry me.
I would not rub the polysporin on the feet. She will just eat it off, and that can't be good for her.
There is currently no open wound anyway. The body is pretty miraculous and should wall off the dead area before the dead area falls off. You might see some swelling in the live tissue closest to the dead area as the blood and lymph systems need to be rerouted to no longer enter the dead zone.
Only if you know for sure that it is broken.
