Pekin duck stopped walking flops around healthy otherwise

[Redeagletrapping]

one of 2 of our pekins came down with a non desire to walk legs are free of slipped tendons, no issue with bumblefoot, plenty of b vitamins and niacin.

The 3 khakis are picking her back and butt feathers , she herself is pulling her feathers.

I isolated her for a week used vetmycin, b12 supplements , and swim time. Will sit still all day floats in water for hours and swims around.

Uses her wings to push herself around.

I am stumped now been 2 weeks no improvement to legs but healthy otherwise legs don't feel hot tendons right no issues moving legs.

Is it time to cull and eat?

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[RiverOtter]

I'm sorry for your loss

 

[Miss Lydia]

Can she move her legs In the pool?

 

[Isaac 0]

one of 2 of our pekins came down with a non desire to walk legs are free of slipped tendons, no issue with bumblefoot, plenty of b vitamins and niacin.

The 3 khakis are picking her back and butt feathers , she herself is pulling her feathers.

I isolated her for a week used vetmycin, b12 supplements , and swim time. Will sit still all day floats in water for hours and swims around.

Uses her wings to push herself around.

I am stumped now been 2 weeks no improvement to legs but healthy otherwise legs don't feel hot tendons right no issues moving legs.

Is it time to cull and eat?

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Specify the brands of the B vitamins, and the dose you were giving it to her at, and how you were administering it?

If it was niacin, you'd have seen improvement in a couple of days.

That may apply to young ducklings, but birds around this age may take weeks before improvement is seen.

 

[Miss Lydia]

Any mating going on? If an injury they can take a long time to heal. Rest and water therapy along with B complex 1-2 ml daily over a treat. It took my Runner duck over a month to get over a sprain. That is all I could come up with since nothing showed up on her legs of feet. She stayed in a dog X pen during the day so she could be with her friends and she got private swim time 2X a day. Liquid B complex over meal worms.

 

[Miss Lydia]

No I don't but @casportpony is really good at this, you'll need to know her weight.

 

[Miss Lydia]

I honestly can't see parasites doing this. What do you feed them? you have said she might be over weight?

 

[Isaac 0]

Others have suggested due to the issues going on not necessarily my 1st choice but so far nothing else is apparent and working.

Ivermectin can be used to treat ectoparasites, and Roundworms so unless you think she has either on of those I would see no reason to treat her.

 

[CSolis]

Yup no prob that I notice. Almost like she weighs too much

Here's just a thought that came to me. If she's able to swim in the pond, but not effectively walk, she's got some kind of nerve damage that makes it painful when there's weight on the leg, yet not in the water.

 

[RiverOtter]

If it was niacin, you'd have seen improvement in a couple of days.

Have you checked her very thouroughly for internal and external parasites? My first thought was her heart (as a meat breed, Pekins are sometimes prone to bad hearts) but the self-plucking indicates pain or irritation and you already said you examined her for injury.