Hi. Am very new here! This is my first post - have joined for advice 
Will go and introduce myself too on another thread
A few months ago we had a duck that was lame, we actually found her stuck in the pond at bedtime. Her legs were stuck out and she was just stuck in the position. We brought her in and warmed her up, and I gave her child's brufen syrup. She seemed much better the next day and better still the next, after two days she was back out in the pen with the others and has had no trouble since.
On Saturday, hubby found another duck was unable to walk back to the house at closing up time, she was sat under a tree. This time a welsh harlequin, which is smaller than the other one (Magpie) by a little bit. It seems to be one leg this time rather than both and not stuck out behind, if anything sticks it out to the side. She can't put weight on it, but is pulling herself along like a snake with her neck and body. She has been in the house since Saturday evening, bright in herself, eating well, childs brufen didn't help so took her to the vet on Monday morning, they gave me dog antiinflammatory and antibiotics although she is not convinced its an infection.
Yesterday I made her a pen in the shed incorporating the sheep footbath so she can swim. She will use it to swim, although still sticks out in the water, she just moves it gently sometimes. I thought she should still exercise it, but tbh am just going off bits of advice online as vet admitted she knows very little and we are pretty stuck. She laid an egg this morning, but hasn't touched her food since moving outside.
So any thoughts! Ideas, suggestions? And could it be the antibiotics putting her off her food. Its metronidazole, and am sure that's a bad one for making ppl sickly. Can ducks even get sickly?!
Thanks so much for any advice at all
Oh! Forgot an important bit, hubby saw one of wh, possibly this one pinned as she was getting out of pond by an over enthusiastic drake, so we have been suspecting mating injury, but vet didn't think she could feel any injuries on exam. Ta
Oh! Forgot an important bit, hubby saw one of wh, possibly this one pinned as she was getting out of pond by an over enthusiastic drake, so we have been suspecting mating injury, but vet didn't think she could feel any injuries on exam. Ta
Will go and introduce myself too on another thread
A few months ago we had a duck that was lame, we actually found her stuck in the pond at bedtime. Her legs were stuck out and she was just stuck in the position. We brought her in and warmed her up, and I gave her child's brufen syrup. She seemed much better the next day and better still the next, after two days she was back out in the pen with the others and has had no trouble since.
On Saturday, hubby found another duck was unable to walk back to the house at closing up time, she was sat under a tree. This time a welsh harlequin, which is smaller than the other one (Magpie) by a little bit. It seems to be one leg this time rather than both and not stuck out behind, if anything sticks it out to the side. She can't put weight on it, but is pulling herself along like a snake with her neck and body. She has been in the house since Saturday evening, bright in herself, eating well, childs brufen didn't help so took her to the vet on Monday morning, they gave me dog antiinflammatory and antibiotics although she is not convinced its an infection.
Yesterday I made her a pen in the shed incorporating the sheep footbath so she can swim. She will use it to swim, although still sticks out in the water, she just moves it gently sometimes. I thought she should still exercise it, but tbh am just going off bits of advice online as vet admitted she knows very little and we are pretty stuck. She laid an egg this morning, but hasn't touched her food since moving outside.
So any thoughts! Ideas, suggestions? And could it be the antibiotics putting her off her food. Its metronidazole, and am sure that's a bad one for making ppl sickly. Can ducks even get sickly?!
Thanks so much for any advice at all
Oh! Forgot an important bit, hubby saw one of wh, possibly this one pinned as she was getting out of pond by an over enthusiastic drake, so we have been suspecting mating injury, but vet didn't think she could feel any injuries on exam. Ta
Oh! Forgot an important bit, hubby saw one of wh, possibly this one pinned as she was getting out of pond by an over enthusiastic drake, so we have been suspecting mating injury, but vet didn't think she could feel any injuries on exam. Ta
so have started to give her the medicine again and she is improving again.