My Duck's Legs are weak and he can't walk!

[Popovichjess]

He doesn't have diarrhea at all. His poops are quite thick so I dunno

 

[duckmamma]

You could cover the bases and treat with a few things on an empty stomach that won't hurt your duck: nanosilver solution to kill bacterial/viral/fungal infections, alternated with bentonite solution (a teaspoon of it in a few tb filtered water) to treat any possible toxins. At least then, even if you don't know what's wrong, you'll be treating it. Wouldn't hurt to buy a probiotic powder with lactobacillus and bifido in it, and give that with the bird's feed water as well.

 

[Popovichjess]

I decided to put my duck down tomorrow as his leg I think is broken or just very weak. He's always been a weak duck with different sicknesses and his legs have always been bad and I just don't know what to do. He is struggling too much to even get around and using his wings to try to move from one food dish to the other

 

[BethsNest]

This same thing happened to my duck right around when he was the same age too, we kept him inside the whole time and I found out to feed him diatomaceous earth it is really cheap and you can find it at your local feed store its a greyish powder and you just put a tbsp in with his food and he will heal right up...ours still kinda hobbles a little bit but he actually gets up now! I would try that before doing anything drastic!

 

[Popovichjess]

I got him examined yesterday and his leg wasn't broken he is just very sick...he had a worm before and it made him not able to walk, then after we gave him the dewormer, he was able to wobble a bit then he went right back to not being able to walk and yesterday he could hardly breath and his eyes were foaming so i decided to just put him down because he couldn't even move

 

[Miss Lydia]

I got him examined yesterday and his leg wasn't broken he is just very sick...he had a worm before and it made him not able to walk, then after we gave him the dewormer, he was able to wobble a bit then he went right back to not being able to walk and yesterday he could hardly breath and his eyes were foaming so i decided to just put him down because he couldn't even move

I'm so sorry

 

[MarysAviaryHeartAndZoo]

Could this be related to heat exhaustion and/or possibly a fluid and electrolyte imbalance? I understand potassium deficiency can cause muscles to cramp up.