The Duck Feet Thread

She did! She fidgeted and peeped at me with such indignation!
All of my ducks are Indian Runners, Ezri and Impa are fawn and whites :) Ezri is fairly dainty and graceful as ducklings go, especially compared to Ezri (who occasionally does flips into the water station and ends up on her back)
That is cute, especially her vocalizations.
 
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Little bat feet :)
 
Here are Tella's feet in May of 2014.

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Here they are now...

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Clear iodine does wonders!
EEEEEEEEEEEEEE, sweet lil Tella's koot lil webby is all fixed up.

That's impressive. Since I know nothing about ducks' feets health, how does that happen? It looks painful. Is it bumblefoot I've heard y'all talk about?
 
EEEEEEEEEEEEEE, sweet lil Tella's koot lil webby is all fixed up.

That's impressive. Since I know nothing about ducks' feets health, how does that happen? It looks painful. Is it bumblefoot I've heard y'all talk about?
To tell you the truth Julie, I am not sure... Some things I have read lead me to believe that actual bumblefood creates black scabs and so far these are the worst I have experienced and they didn't slow Tella down at all, but any open wound on the foot is a cause of concern. I performed minor surgery on one of her toes and it was very traumatic, so when I saw these, I decided if she wasn't limping and she wasn't getting worse I would try to avoid surgery. I tried the Tricide-neo and made her stand in a bath of the solution every day or every other day or something like that for 10 minutes and had to guard that she wouldn't drink it and she would end up splashing it around, we had to wear rubber gloves and try not to get it on our clothes / person, plus we had to make up a new batch every week because it expires once you mix it with distilled water - it was a real pain and when I ran out ($60 pack) there was no real difference on Tella's feet. So I started treating her instead with clear iodine. It took about a week before we decided that the little applicator that comes with the bottle was worthless and bought some small paint brushes to apply the iodine. We finally settled on treating her (and Ettie who was about half as bad) daily and doing a weekly check on every duck in the flock (which we still do). Every little cut gets iodine. We are now on our third bottle (with some minor spills here and there) and there is no way we have spent near the money that the Tricide-neo cost and everyone is healthy. Now if these are just scabs and we are giving them a preventive antibiotic as opposed to bumblefoot, the Tricide-neo might work better when there is an actual bad infection, so I am not completely discounting it. I would love to hear others opinions on this...
 

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