My duck hurt her leg

[LucyLucky]

My 1 year old pekin duck hurt her leg yesterday. I don't know how she did it but I took her swimming Saturday and she was walking/waddling fine. She isn't a small duck but she can't walk on her one leg. I didn't see anything on the bottom of her foot. She is always hurting one of her legs (she's accident prone I think). I don't know what to do. I put a bowl of water and her food bowl close to her and her stuffed duck beside her and fluffed up her bed for her but she hasn't moved.

If anyone can help me that would be fabulous.

 

[LucyLucky]

I looked at her feet again this afternoon and noticed a big black spot. So I'm assuming it bumblefoot.

 

[Miss Lydia]

My 1 year old pekin duck hurt her leg yesterday. I don't know how she did it but I took her swimming Saturday and she was walking/waddling fine. She isn't a small duck but she can't walk on her one leg. I didn't see anything on the bottom of her foot. She is always hurting one of her legs (she's accident prone I think). I don't know what to do. I put a bowl of water and her food bowl close to her and her stuffed duck beside her and fluffed up her bed for her but she hasn't moved.

If anyone can help me that would be fabulous.

I have asked another member to look at this if it's bumble foot Can you post a pic of the bottom of her foot?

 

[Amiga]

Here is the clear iodine method Haunted55 discovered. Clear iodine. It works a little differently than brown iodine.

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On July 1st, I found one of my Pekin ducks with what I would consider a bad case of Bumblefoot. Both feet were involved and I'm ashamed to say, the only way I found it was she was limping. One foot had 7 and the other had 3. I was able to grab her and bring her into the house and put her into a warm bath to clean and soak. Two water changes later and softened feet, all I had time to do was paint the bumbles with colorless iodine, grabbed the wrong stuff, and put her into a dog crate in my house until I could get everything ready to operate and get them gone. Did I mention the thought of this scared me half to death?

Sad to say it took 6 days before i was able to get everything together and someone to help out with the 'cure'.

There really wasn't much to operate on, even though I was prepared to do just that. No matter how much squeezing or prodding or soaking, there just wasn't anything more to come out, it was all on the scabs that were covering the sores. The swelling was down from the 'marbles' I saw when I first found them. I poured betadine over the ones I had opened and painted the ones that I hadn't again with the iodine and put her back into her crate with clean bedding.


The bumbles have been dramatically reduced on the Pekin with just the iodine application and the smaller ones totally gone.

The heels being the worst are still showing infection and need for more treatment. tomorrow, I will again give a bath and pull/cut out the scabbing and treat with straight iodine this time. These spots are now flat or as flat as they should be considering the part of the foot they are on. I will still touch up the places that had the spots before as well.

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