My duck suddenly got a swollen red leg overnight, what do I do?

View attachment 1756223 View attachment 1756224 I have a male pekin duck, and as I was going to feed in the morning I noticed he couldn’t get up. Usually he will quack and wait by his feeding bowl, but he was laying in the middle of his cage. The cage is pretty big, enough to roam around and has a swimming pool. I also have a female duck with him, and she’s currently laying in her nest. I went to check him and he noticed he was panting and couldn’t get up. I saw that his leg was a little swollen, and I took him home and gave him a warm bath to put the pressure off his foot. Although, I noticed now it’s really red and swollen compared to his other foot. He always had a little waffle and his legs were always aimed forward, but he didn’t bother him. Could that be the reason? His weight got to heavy for him? What could be the cause of this and can this be fixed?
These dark spots on his foot need to come off. They are holding in pus under Neath them.
The pus is nothing like human pus it can actually be close to rock hard.

Can you dig the dark spots off and squeeze the pus out?
 

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