Semi-wild muscovy duck questions

[Miss Lydia]

A good examine might help if you can do that. She wants to keep up which may make this worse.

 

[SolarDuck]

Should I bring her to a vet?

 

[Miss Lydia]

That’s up to you but if you leave her out there she won’t make it. Can you get her and examine her legs for injury or just let a vet look at her.

 

[SolarDuck]

So I found the issue, but I'm not sure what it is or what I should do about it.

 

[Miss Lydia]

Looks like a small bumble but I can’t imagine that Making her walk an run like she was in the video. Any unusual heat or swelling anywhere else along the leg check where leg meets the body at the hip too.

 

[SolarDuck]

I cant really see anything else, it almost looks like her entire leg is very slightly bent

 

[Miss Lydia]

Could be a birth defect or something else going on. No way of knowing with out XRays could even be a niacin deficiency that can cause lameness and leg deformities too. I don’t know what to tell you I just don’t see how she’ll make it on her own with that limp an not being able to keep up. No rescue will take her? You In Florida? In south Florida there use to be a Muscovy rescue look on line.

 

[SolarDuck]

I'll bring her to the vet today if its something that requires extensive rehab I'll have to call a rehabber I just dont want to separate her from the others unless absolutely necessary. They're all bonded I know she would miss them so much

 

[Miss Lydia]

She will any chance of getting one of her buds to be with her through this?

 

[SolarDuck]

I called the vet and they didnt have an appointment until thursday so I scheduled their soonest available. Do you think I should bring one of the others along to the vet to calm her?