Chassmarie83
Chirping
- May 22, 2019
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So, four days ago I heard every duck moms worse nightmare, my flock going crazy in the middle of the night. Out the door with the gun and dog we ran to find the red devil herself, a fox, running out of the yard. After a quick head count sure enough 2 of my young Pekins were missing and I was immediately fearing the worse. Thanks to a spotlight and a hound who was immediately trying to find which way the fox had actually gone I was able to locate both 2 month old ducklings still alive. I quickly brought them inside and put them in a pet carrier, after checking them for any gaping wounds, and let them calm down for the rest of the night. One did not make it until morning, but the other did. I have named it Waddles and have been nursing it since but am unsure if it is a fight that is humane or if I am just essentially setting it up for a life that is going to be cut short any way. I am unable to afford a vet bill for it and am hoping some of you might be able to give me some help that I am not finding through research. Waddles did not have any visible wounds other then some missing feathers off of its back which I have been keeping clean with bathes and sterile saline and have seemed to heal rather nicely and quickly. At first, IT (too young for me to sex) could not stand up without falling over and seemed to not be able to pick its head up at all. I have been feeding it several times a day and keeping it in a small pet carrier where it can not flop its self over on its back. Well, it was putting its head up to the carrier door and looked uncomfortable so I left the door open the other day and was shocked to see it half way across the living room the next morning. Since, then I have been taking it out side during the day when we are out there and letting it lay around and wonder when it can and have seen 100% improvement from that first day. Here are some videos and pics of Waddles that I am hoping help everyone to help me know whether this is something it will recover from. And as a disclaimer it was doing much better then this yesterday and after these videos but these were taken after it had been caged all day because we were gone and I wanted to have something for you all to look at. Thanks to everyone for reading my ramblings..
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