One of my ducks is limping.

[WannaBeHillBilly]

She's around 25 weeks I'd have to count and they have been using these kiddie pools for months now.
Do you have any pool ideas? It's something I've been thinking about anyway.
Thank you!
Kelly

At 6+ months she should know how to get in and out of a pool - yet i had a drake in 2018 who couldn't remember the location of the "get-out stone" and when the water was murky he swam around in panic until he finally bumped into the stone…
I took a piece of OSB, screwed some small stripes of OSB across and painted the whole thing with red barn paint. Drilled two holes at the top and through the pool and used two zip ties to secure the ramp. My pool is sunken into the ground, so getting in is easy: Just run and jump and make a huge ducknami to evict the other ducks…

 

[WannaBeHillBilly]

Do you have bricks in your pool for them to get on as they step out, and a ramp going up and down? That's what I used and it worked pretty well.

Unless you have Donald, the drake with the memory problem…

 

[FunQuail]

Do you have bricks in your pool for them to get on as they step out, and a ramp going up and down? That's what I used and it worked pretty well.

I don't but they get in and out pretty well. I took out this bigger green kiddie pool that was slightly taller and she's been doing pretty good.

 

[FunQuail]

Update:
Iris is doing better and is limping far less than she was. Sometimes no limp sometimes slightly limping. Thank you for all your help everyone!! She hasn't been in the crate for several days now. Will keep you updated.
Thanks again!
Kelly

 

[CoriM]

I don't but they get in and out pretty well. I took out this bigger green kiddie pool that was slightly taller and she's been doing pretty good.

It seems like the impact of jumping out of even the small size kiddie pool would be hard on duck's legs and joints, and could be the cause of her limp. I just use a cinder block inside my pool, and a wooden ramp leading up into the pool that they use to get in and out. It's so simple, and makes it so easy for them.

 

[WannaBeHillBilly]

Update:
Iris is doing better and is limping far less than she was. Sometimes no limp sometimes slightly limping. Thank you for all your help everyone!! She hasn't been in the crate for several days now. Will keep you updated.
Thanks again!
Kelly

Good news! Glad that Iris is walking better and can hang out with her flock.

 

[WannaBeHillBilly]

It seems like the impact of jumping out of even the small size kiddie pool would be hard on duck's legs and joints, and could be the cause of her limp. I just use a cinder block inside my pool, and a wooden ramp leading up into the pool that they use to get in and out. It's so simple, and makes it so easy for them.

Yeah! Tell that to my Fall Ducklings! They have a small plastic bowl to bathe. It is set up on a hill (no flat land here) and supported by a piece of fence-post, so that it sits level. They all hop in from the up-hill side, but jump out downhill, where they drop over one foot to the ground. After that they roll down the over once or twice down the hill and then doing it all over again… So far nobody got injured…