How To Strengthen Duck Leg

[Miss Lydia]

some info from a member with Pekins:
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I’ve had my Pekins do this when a leg is injured or they were needing more niacin in their diet. Do you see any swelling in her legs or hips? Or bottom of her feet have black scabs? I would check those out and if there are no obvious signs of trauma, I would put her on 100 mgs of liquid niacin a day. Make sure it is NOT flush free. The flush free won’t work. I have got the liquid in the vitamin section at Walmart and the cattle vitamin section of tractor supply. Niacin is crucial to Pekins especially because of their heavy weight (they were bred to be meat birds) and their rapid growth. You may see her start walking better in about a week if she is niacin deficient. And having only one out of the flock that is niacin deficient is common.

https://www.merckvetmanual.com/poul...ement-poultry/vitamin-deficiencies-in-poultry

Get the liquid B complex it is much better than just niacin by itself.

 

[Victoriasducks]

some info from a member with Pekins:
CayugaJana Free Ranging

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Sep 2, 2017
I’ve had my Pekins do this when a leg is injured or they were needing more niacin in their diet. Do you see any swelling in her legs or hips? Or bottom of her feet have black scabs? I would check those out and if there are no obvious signs of trauma, I would put her on 100 mgs of liquid niacin a day. Make sure it is NOT flush free. The flush free won’t work. I have got the liquid in the vitamin section at Walmart and the cattle vitamin section of tractor supply. Niacin is crucial to Pekins especially because of their heavy weight (they were bred to be meat birds) and their rapid growth. You may see her start walking better in about a week if she is niacin deficient. And having only one out of the flock that is niacin deficient is common.

https://www.merckvetmanual.com/poul...ement-poultry/vitamin-deficiencies-in-poultry

Get the liquid B complex it is much better than just niacin by itself.

Thank you for the added info. I’ll have to go after work but I’ll pick it all up. (New food, bit B and nutritional yeast for the rest of them.)

 

[Miss Lydia]

1 Tab of Nutritional yeast to a cup of feed.

 

[quackiemama]

I hope her leg gets better

 

[Victoriasducks]

Ugh. Down the street feed store looked at me like I had two heads. I’m going to the health food store now.

 

[Victoriasducks]

I’m absolutely crying right now. I can’t find any liquid b complex and these people are looking at me with this “poor you” face but not in the nice way. Like I’m an *bad word*

 

[Miss Lydia]

Okay did you look in the cattle dept? That is usually where it's found. Or order on line Durvet Liquid B complex. I got mine off Amazon Sorry your having a hard time finding it. You can use human b complex liquid but it's not as concentrated so you have to use 3 ml instead of 1.

 

[Victoriasducks]

Ok durvet is what I was looking at and the lady looked at me like I was a complete idiot and I’m pretty sure she shook her head at me. I’ll go back to that store and just grab it. I think it was cheaper at the store than at Amazon. The photo is what they had.

 

[Miss Lydia]

Same stuff you saw at the store. What you showed is what I bought off Amazon.