PicklesMom
Songster
First, thanks so much to everyone on this forum. I've learned so much from responses to my posts and from reading others' posts.
For the last several months I've been dealing with bumblefoot in my nearly one year-old Pekin, Susan. I think she is prone because she has a slightly funny waddle after a tendon injury as a duckling. Since April it has been drained 3 times (at the vet) and I just gave her a 7 day course of fishmox on my own after feeling like it was never going to get better. We seem to have turned a corner finally.
I've noticed her bill looking pale recently. She seems otherwise fine, acting herself, laying normally. She may be molting as I've been seeing feathers fly when she shakes. She eats Nutrena duck pellets, I've started her on Rooster Booster Poultry Cell the last week - as she does tend to bleed a lot every time her foot is opened - and is out foraging again with her friends sometimes, now that her foot is healing. Here is a picture of her back in February, as compared to now. I mentioned it to the vet (who will see ducks but I don't think is a duck expert, but really our only option) and she sort of agreed it was pale but didn't say much else except that she looked otherwise healthy and her weight was ok.
I'm wondering how much I should worry? We recently lost another duck to egg yolk peritonitis out of the blue and I love this little duck so much that I am feeling incredibly stressed. Thank you!
For the last several months I've been dealing with bumblefoot in my nearly one year-old Pekin, Susan. I think she is prone because she has a slightly funny waddle after a tendon injury as a duckling. Since April it has been drained 3 times (at the vet) and I just gave her a 7 day course of fishmox on my own after feeling like it was never going to get better. We seem to have turned a corner finally.
I've noticed her bill looking pale recently. She seems otherwise fine, acting herself, laying normally. She may be molting as I've been seeing feathers fly when she shakes. She eats Nutrena duck pellets, I've started her on Rooster Booster Poultry Cell the last week - as she does tend to bleed a lot every time her foot is opened - and is out foraging again with her friends sometimes, now that her foot is healing. Here is a picture of her back in February, as compared to now. I mentioned it to the vet (who will see ducks but I don't think is a duck expert, but really our only option) and she sort of agreed it was pale but didn't say much else except that she looked otherwise healthy and her weight was ok.
I'm wondering how much I should worry? We recently lost another duck to egg yolk peritonitis out of the blue and I love this little duck so much that I am feeling incredibly stressed. Thank you!
