Yesterday was an incredibly sad day. For almost a year now we’ve had 2 ducks as part of our backyard ‘poultry posse.’ Our middle daughter, Kate, named the ducks Kiwi and Banana. We could always tell them apart as Kiwi had a bum leg. Her right leg turned inward pretty dramatically. At one point when she was a little duckling she wouldn’t even stand on her legs, she kept going down in a sitting position and seemed that she couldn’t really get herself around on her legs. Almost like the she could not extend the leg straight enough to help herself walk. After some google consulting (yes, even veterinarians can consult google), I learned that this is sometimes seen in ducks. They can have different nutritional requirements from chickens. The store we got Kiwi and Banana from had been feeding the ducklings the same food as the chicks. Being first time duck owners, we bought the chick feed they recommended and on we went. Now we know that ducks may need supplemental niacin or they can have what we saw with our Kiwi, a funny bowed leg or even 2 bowed legs…