Cayuga Lover
Chirping
- Dec 27, 2018
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Hi everyone,
I searched and didn’t find anything that seems to apply to my duck so I’m hoping someone can help. One of my Cayuga ducks, Miss Chevious, can’t walk. She will be three years old in May. She lives inside with two ducklings we got her who are now full grown. She has chronic bumble foot in her right foot so she couldn’t go back outside with our flock, hence getting the ducklings so she’s not alone.
We have separated their living quarters so they can see each other, but the “babies” can’t pull her feathers out. She eats Purina organic starter/grower food. It’s their maintainer poultry food. We’ve been putting brewers yeast in her food and giving her vitamin water.
To her symptoms: she started with a respiratory infection and we gave her a course of antibiotics. That seems to have cleared up but during the infection, she started molting and a few days after she stopped the antibiotics, we noticed she couldn’t walk, but on her LEFT foot, not the right which is her normal trouble foot. We examined the foot and leg and it all feels and looks normal but it did seem to bother her when we were touching it. She tries to stand up but can only do it for a short time and she can’t walk. She scoots herself around thrusting herself and using her wings for balance. She will eat but not a ton because it’s so hard for her to get around. We put her by her food and water and she’ll chow down, but then she’ll inevitably move and choose not to get up to go eat again until the next time we move her food near her.
She is scared because her right foot has never been good and now her left foot/leg is giving her problems, so she “runs” from us a lot, not knowing if we’re there to torture her or not. But we still get her food and water near her as often as we can. I think she has PTSD from when we originally were trying to treat the bumble foot on her right and we cut into it often to get pus out.
Anyway, we have no idea why she can’t bear weight on her left leg now. Does anyone have any ideas? We could use all the help we can get.
I searched and didn’t find anything that seems to apply to my duck so I’m hoping someone can help. One of my Cayuga ducks, Miss Chevious, can’t walk. She will be three years old in May. She lives inside with two ducklings we got her who are now full grown. She has chronic bumble foot in her right foot so she couldn’t go back outside with our flock, hence getting the ducklings so she’s not alone.
We have separated their living quarters so they can see each other, but the “babies” can’t pull her feathers out. She eats Purina organic starter/grower food. It’s their maintainer poultry food. We’ve been putting brewers yeast in her food and giving her vitamin water.
To her symptoms: she started with a respiratory infection and we gave her a course of antibiotics. That seems to have cleared up but during the infection, she started molting and a few days after she stopped the antibiotics, we noticed she couldn’t walk, but on her LEFT foot, not the right which is her normal trouble foot. We examined the foot and leg and it all feels and looks normal but it did seem to bother her when we were touching it. She tries to stand up but can only do it for a short time and she can’t walk. She scoots herself around thrusting herself and using her wings for balance. She will eat but not a ton because it’s so hard for her to get around. We put her by her food and water and she’ll chow down, but then she’ll inevitably move and choose not to get up to go eat again until the next time we move her food near her.
She is scared because her right foot has never been good and now her left foot/leg is giving her problems, so she “runs” from us a lot, not knowing if we’re there to torture her or not. But we still get her food and water near her as often as we can. I think she has PTSD from when we originally were trying to treat the bumble foot on her right and we cut into it often to get pus out.
Anyway, we have no idea why she can’t bear weight on her left leg now. Does anyone have any ideas? We could use all the help we can get.
