[john2708]

one of my female runner ducks can no longer walk totaly lame i noticed the problem yesterday i thought it might be heat stroke as she was very hot and wobled on her feet iv gone to put them away tonight and she can no longer walk and advice would be great cheers john

[CameronS]

 i would suggest separating her, put her  in the dark to keep her calm, make sure she eats/drinks/
Inspect the legs for any cuts/scraped that could have become infected - if you find any infected area wash out the area with a weak saline/salt solution and spray the area with iodine and wrap in a bandage. If there is no 48hr improvement, take her to the Vet or the dreaded PTS option.

Failing to find any infection check for any hot, solid swellings, particularly around joints, she may have fractured/broken a bone or a similar sort of injury(tendon, ligament etc). if so you could try home splinting - two lollypop sticks or similar either side of the leg, and taped round tight keeping the leg straight, and bandaged. but the best option would be to visit the vet (or PTS), this will ensure any hypothesis is correct and deal with is accordingly, they can also assure the best bone line up etc.

make sure to keep her calm and immobilised if poss (cat basket or similar), check she is eating/drinking as normal as possible.

[john2708]

She is eating a drinking and both her legs are fine. her chest is realy hot even to the touch if you put her on the pond she acts totlay normal its just on land she cant walk

[doganjo]

If she moves around on the pond then her legs are OK.  I suspect she has an infection if she is hot like that - you need ABs or some other medication I would think.

[john2708]

come to the hut this morning and found her dead im gutted she was apart of my breeding trio. What i need to know is will the drake and the other female be ok they look fine at the minuet but this female died with in two days i dont wont to lose any more cheers john

[doganjo]

If it's an infection as I said before you may well see it in the others, but on the other hand they may be resistant to whatever she had.  I wouldn't buy in any more stock till you see what happens to them.