My duck needs help possible back injury?

[Miss Lydia]

I'm so sorry what all are you doing to try and help?

 

[Starlee]

Providing food and vitamins and water and keeping a small space. I take her out a few times a week to bathe herself as well in the pond.

 

[Miss Lydia]

Hopefully, she will respond and be back to feeling good again soon. Injuries take time to heal.

 

[Starlee]

Hopefully, she will respond and be back to feeling good again soon. Injuries take time to heal.

Thank you I hope so too. My chick and ducklings have taken to her. She seems more lively now, but fingers crossed.

 

[Starlee]

Updates *** she is still not walking but standing a lot more but has lost weight. She eats and drinks though. The ducklings and a bantam chick have taken her as their mother so I think it's helping her hang on. I am almost 100% sure now that it is a back injury due to lots of research. I'm so lost on what to do because I need to put her where she can't try to get around. It's a very small coop. But I let her go swimming a couple days out of the week to keep her in good mental health and clean and she gets so excited and happy to go to the nursery pool. I'm going to have to place her in an area where she can't move... and they all will probably get upset...but at this point I think she needs a smaller area to heal. I'm posting pics of her areas I put her in.

 

[jenjenjentz]

Updates *** she is still not walking but standing a lot more but has lost weight. She eats and drinks though. The ducklings and a bantam chick have taken her as their mother so I think it's helping her hang on. I am almost 100% sure now that it is a back injury due to lots of research. I'm so lost on what to do because I need to put her where she can't try to get around. It's a very small coop. But I let her go swimming a couple days out of the week to keep her in good mental health and clean and she gets so excited and happy to go to the nursery pool. I'm going to have to place her in an area where she can't move... and they all will probably get upset...but at this point I think she needs a smaller area to heal. I'm posting pics of her areas I put her in

Did your duck end up healing from the back injury? Think I’m dealing with something similar and wondering how long her healing might take.

 

[Miss Lydia]

Did your duck end up healing from the back injury? Think I’m dealing with something similar and wondering how long her healing might take.

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