kilo69
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« on: June 08, 2011, 12:10:21 pm » |
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So one of my 2 week old ducklings was so far behind the others I moved it down to the week old batch with another mother duck.
It seems to have trouble walking and appears to walk on it's toes instead of the pads of it's feet. I have had a look and it seems like there is some sores on the toes that could be explaining it's difficulty.
My google research has only come up with "bumblefoot" but I am not sure that is the cause.
I'm going to try to clean it's feet regularly and see if that helps it heal... it seems to love swimming more than walking... any thoughts from the readers here?
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kilo69
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« Reply #1 on: June 09, 2011, 04:19:20 am » |
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Well it's not bumble foot.... it's feet cleaned up and look fine.
I had it in the house overnight and it has had 3 seizures in about 4 hours. It also seems to have very little control over one of it's legs and just when it starts to look normal it seizes again. I am thinking now I may just cull the poor thing now as it is only a meat bird. My whole goal in raising my own was to make sure they all had a happy and healthy life before their time and this poor duckling is not having either of those.
Unless anyone has a suggestion as to why it may be seizing that is correctable.
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Cathy
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« Reply #2 on: July 18, 2011, 06:33:52 am » |
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Sorry I didn't respond to this sooner. I agree, it probably would be best to be put down. It very well could have been a congenital defect that you couldn't fix.
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