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    Duck walking small steps, gait seems off

    Aww I appreciate your kind words. It was a blessing to have them all in our care for a little while. It was great getting to know you too, and I can't thank you enough for all your help. Without out, little "Gimpy" aka "Baby Girl" would not have survived. So thank you. Photos attached: Hatchday...
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    Duck walking small steps, gait seems off

    Here we are floating in the pool together last Sunday. You can see the edge of my float. I have a video of her flapping her wings on Monday, but it's such a pain to upload videos here ;) In other (big) news, she has finally left us. She was here yesterday evening and had her dinner. She ate...
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    Duck walking small steps, gait seems off

    I have continued the Vit B complex, but wondered if I needed to. So I cut it back to M/W/F, 3 days a week. What frequency do you recommend? She doesn't not seem to have that issue of walking, legs appear fine. But definitely not strong in her flying skills. She is always quacking in the early...
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    Duck walking small steps, gait seems off

    Well, twice now Baby Girl has flown over our fence. First time I wasn't home for 4 hours before I discovered her gone. She was in our front flower bed panting, and scared. I opened the gate and walked her far enough to where she could recognize our backyard, and go in. Then she flew over again...
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    Duck walking small steps, gait seems off

    Aww well, at the moment she is part of the family. We're attached. She also quacks at me sometimes when I go back into the house. She's talking to me haha! But we hope that she'll join her family, or new friends. Would be great if another duck came back and told her to come with!
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    Duck walking small steps, gait seems off

    Well, our baby girl is still here with us. And now I'm thinking that this is Gimpy! My husband told me Gimpy was one of the ones who flew away. But now he now realizes he doesn't really know. 😬 She quacks early morning when the birds start chirping. And again at roosting time, I'm sure in hopes...
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    Duck walking small steps, gait seems off

    Well, I'm sad to say that our ducks got spooked this afternoon. Possibly a hawk swooped down low, not sure. But out of our three, our two males flew away and now we have one remaining female. She began quacking hysterically, so my husband and I ran outside to see what was going on. We both...
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    Duck walking small steps, gait seems off

    Peepers Update: First we had another adult female join our flock party for a couple days. Tuen, her and mama flew away and have never returned. Then Gimpy flew away! We're left with these three. They are flying distances across the yard, and from the deck to the pool. I supposed they'll be...
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    Duck walking small steps, gait seems off

    I'll have to listen for that next time. Thank you!
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    Duck walking small steps, gait seems off

    I figured that might be panting. Although our duck pond, a.k.a. swimming pool, is shaded from about 2PM and on. However, it is hot here in Texas! So happy Gimpy is looking better. I think that one might be a female. We think that two of them are males because they look darker. Oh also, they...
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    Duck walking small steps, gait seems off

    They are constantly flapping so looks like they are getting ready. And we've notice mama is leaving more often, as in "Come follow me!" I'm attaching a couple videos here. The first one is of one of our 'babies' doing this today. Just opening & closing the beak as if peeping, but no sound. Just...
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    Duck walking small steps, gait seems off

    They are definitely flapping their wings hard, as if trying to lift off. I've been watching for that. We do want them to fly off and live their natural lifestyle. Also, the whole backyard including the pool, has become dedicated to the ducks. So we'd like our backyard back, haha! I refer to them...
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    Duck walking small steps, gait seems off

    I i was just coming on here to give you an update and saw your message. Good news, definitely have seen an improvement to the point I can't tell her apart from the others ones by their walking. The only way I can spot her is that she's a little bit smaller. So it looks like it's working! I...
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    Duck walking small steps, gait seems off

    OK fantastic, great advice thank you. I saw the duck water bowls at Tractor Supply with the little places for their beaks around the bottom. I was going to grab one while I was there, and forgot!!! Right now I have a small baking dish with water, but they step all in it and backwash so bad, that...
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    Duck walking small steps, gait seems off

    I got the Durvet B Complex that you recommended. Our ducklings will be 7 weeks this Thursday. They're so big we can hardly tell them apart from momma. Since it's in a vile, I just happened to have syringes here because our son has Type 1 diabetes. I thought I could draw it up in the syringe and...
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