What causes this???

[h2ofowlr]

I shot this mallard hen earlier in the week with a messed up foot.  A little different.

[EastWaViking]

Hanford?

[jordano]

I have never seen anything like that before! but I can email this pic to a couple wildlife biologists and see what they say.

[chester]

Frostbite? 

[kenbell27]

make sure you wear gloves, could be STD's

[Aneoakleaf]

The turkey I shot last year had a weird foot too.
We ate it and it didn't hurt uuuuuuuu...us

[addicted]

foot got shot off and it healed over 

[firecrotch]

elephantduck

[Aneoakleaf]

elephantduck

[ICEMAN]

She kept biting her nails? My mom warned me about this...

[General Disarray]

I shot a hen with a foot missing on saturday.  all she had left was a nub big enough to hold the band that she was wearing in place!

Just wondering if it was a nub when she was banded or if some big largemouth saw a shiny glimmer on an orange leg and grabbed her foot!

[teal101]

Frost bite or an injury when it was young.

[Elliott]

foot got shot off and it healed over 

my first duck i shot its toes off on my first shot and knocked it down on my second shot. maybe somebody took one shot at it and didnt give it a second thought.

[RileyTDF]

H2O ... Its funny you asked this...I have seen a few with feet like this and its always the hens!! I don't remember seeing a Drake like this ever...if I had to guess, I would say birth defect. Maybe while in the egg, something happened to it  but who knows!.

[huntergreg]

I have chickens that get that almost every year. It is from frostbite or there feet getting wet and they freeze and they fall off.