So I’ve been reading up on angel wing, and it appears that wrapping is the only method of reversing it if it’s caught early enough. What I’ve also read is that the cause of the twisting is due to the feathers growing too fast before the duckling’s wing bones are strong enough to hold the feathers up. That got me to wondering, if the offending “too heavy” feathers were plucked, would the wing structure then be able to grow properly without the weight of them? Then theoretically the wing bones would be stronger by the time new pin feathers grew to that stage again.
The reason I ask, is because so many of the accounts mention how futile their attempts at wrapping were. The people who were able to successfully keep the wrap on their ducklings cured the angel wing, but the people whose ducklings continually escaped from their wraps were unable to reverse the angel wing.
In my situation, I have 10 Khaki Campbell ducklings, 6 weeks old, being raised by 3 geese. They free range all day long and their diet consists of a lot of foraging and also 15% chick feed. One of them looks to be starting to get angel wing and I’d like to try to head that off. But I really don’t like the idea of twice-daily rodeos to wrap and unwrap, knowing that I’m not very good at wrapping to begin with, and mine will likely be the wrap that falls off. Plucking the offending feathers would be a “one and done” thing, if that could be a likely option.
I couldn’t find anything about this on the Internet, so I thought I would ask the duck experts here what they think the chances of this working are.
The reason I ask, is because so many of the accounts mention how futile their attempts at wrapping were. The people who were able to successfully keep the wrap on their ducklings cured the angel wing, but the people whose ducklings continually escaped from their wraps were unable to reverse the angel wing.
In my situation, I have 10 Khaki Campbell ducklings, 6 weeks old, being raised by 3 geese. They free range all day long and their diet consists of a lot of foraging and also 15% chick feed. One of them looks to be starting to get angel wing and I’d like to try to head that off. But I really don’t like the idea of twice-daily rodeos to wrap and unwrap, knowing that I’m not very good at wrapping to begin with, and mine will likely be the wrap that falls off. Plucking the offending feathers would be a “one and done” thing, if that could be a likely option.
I couldn’t find anything about this on the Internet, so I thought I would ask the duck experts here what they think the chances of this working are.