Please help! My duck is limping and has a swollen toe

[Miss Lydia]

Is a vet an option?

 

[CoriM]

Sorry, do you have any suggestions on how to do that? I have been soaking her in the salt baths with her duck friends nearby and she is still very feisty around me. I put her in a see through bucket once and she just flew out. I dont know how else I should try to keep her from moving around much.

Are you asking how to keep her from walking much outside the water? If so, I would create a very small pen for her but still with the other ducks - at least another friend inside with her.

 

[DuckyDonna]

do you have a smal dog crate?

 

[juliafish16]

Don’t use peroxide it’s only for initial wound cleaning if you keep using it it will damage healthy skin tissue.

Oh no, I did not know! I won't use it anymore!

 

[juliafish16]

Is a vet an option?

I am not sure, I am still a student so I do not have an income and I think my parents might be willing to take her if it gets worse but I am not sure. But I do think the epsom salt baths are working a little bit. She is still limping but just not as heavily. She tries her best not to move on her own so I bring the food and water to her but I still have not been able to put her in a crate yet. She is very feisty

 

[juliafish16]

Are you asking how to keep her from walking much outside the water? If so, I would create a very small pen for her but still with the other ducks - at least another friend inside with her.

Thank you! Can it be just an area in my backyard though? Or will it be better to keep her off the grass?

 

[juliafish16]

do you have a smal dog crate?

I do not, ducks are my first pets besides goldfish.

 

[Crazyducklady7]

Try soaking her foot in epsom salt in the evening before she goes to bed. I hear that helps! Good luck!