My girl Mildred - ninja duck

[Marty1876]

Hey Marty! I just suggested this to someone treating a chicken with stubborn bumblefoot.

Its excellent, if the would allows draw action to happen. Bumble foot can really suck for the poor wee beasties (and the big ones).

And, good to see you Quackrrs!

 

[Goin Quackrrs]

Happy to hear Mildred is out with the other ducks again! I know the last few I've had to put in the hospital have been thrilled to go back out with the other ducks.

 

[newbyduckmom]

Mildred and her buddies are happily enjoying our torrential downpour today. The humans....no so. Good to have ducks in the Pacific Northwest. They love our lousy weather (Washington native....but this weather for last 3 years is getting really old!)

 

[Miss Lydia]

Mildred and her buddies are happily enjoying our torrential downpour today. The humans....no so. Good to have ducks in the Pacific Northwest. They love our lousy weather (not Washington native....but this weather for last 3 years is getting really old!)

Mildred deserves to be able to act like a duck and enjoy the rain and mud along with her buddies.. way to go mom

 

[Marty1876]

x 2 !

 

[Goin Quackrrs]

Mildred and her buddies are happily enjoying our torrential downpour today. The humans....no so. Good to have ducks in the Pacific Northwest. They love our lousy weather (Washington native....but this weather for last 3 years is getting really old!)

I'm so sick of wind and downpours. How the heck will I ever get anything done?

Wish I was a duck, would make our weather a lot more tolerable.

 

[newbyduckmom]

I think I have isolated the cause of the repeated foot injuries leading to bumblefoot. My husband insisted we put the duck run around the raised beds I have. The raspberries are also in the area (never ever gave it a thought ......they are now fenced off so ducks can't get into them. Once I fence all the things the ducks need to stay away from, there won't be much room left for the ducks....(potaoes, rhubarb, onions/garlic......)

 

[Amiga]

I have started putting up fence around things, too. Last year the rhubarb, already had the garlic fenced off, now, because of Mildred´s situation, the cane berries will get some fence. Oh, and I am pulling the trailing wild berry vines in the forest garden out - they can grow all they want on the other side of the fence.

 

[yoyosma]

So happy to hear that Mildred's on the mend-
Congratulations to you both!!

 

[Pam 8833]

Hi, I have a duck who had hot hocks( knee joints) and walking with her wings out to the side. She is still eating and laying eggs but not preening enough and gets waterlogged. She was sitting in the garden in the rain and got muddy and also a small pond filled up with water in the fall so not sure if decaying organics had anything to do with it. I trimmed her nails as the ones on her left foot were really long. A few days later that foot has just folded up limp.
She eats and swims and seems happy other than the foot and not preening.
any ideas.
Oh and we gave her phosphorous 30 3 times.

thanks,
Pam