Call duck hen with eye issue-HELP!

Hi all,

I have a local country store that has a few animals for the customers fun and education.  They have a little call duck hen that is about 1 year old and has been laying.  I buy feed at this store and so we are there at least a couple times a week.  I noticed about 4 days ago that she was missing the feathers around her right eye.  The other eye is fine.  I brought some neosporin and put it on her eye.  Today I go back and she is curled up in the corner of the pen looking quite lethargic.  I asked them if I could bring her home and get her back to health.  She was in a pen with a mini-goat as they lost her mate during winter and she didn't want to be alone.  So no other birds could have done this to her.  There is a chicken pen near by.

So I have the duck hen in my garage bathroom shower, quarantined from all my other birds.  I have given her water with ACV and bird vitamin/ eletrolytes and duck food and greens.  I also put more neosporin on her eye.

Does anyone know exactly what this is?   Here is a pic.

Could this be some kinda of mite or bug?  I just realized that she does not have swimming water where they keep her, only drinking water.  Can this cause bugs to gather on a water bird?

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Originally Posted by Amiga 

Ducks are at much higher risk of eye problems without proper wash water.

Thanks Amiga!  I will make sure they giver her some wash water when I return her.  I have been told someone named OZ might have some good info?  Do you know this user?

I want to treat her for the bugs.  I dusted her, but it doesn't seem like it can get to the skin with all that down.  I have frontline and Eprinex pour on that I have used on chickens, would either of those work on her?
 

Okay, that sounds reasonable, but then how do I rid her of the bugs?  Can I give her a bath?  I have heard of people using a 5 gallon bucket of warm water and adding a little soap and vinegar and holding the bird's body under the water to drown the bugs?  Should I use Baby shampoo in case she gets it in her eyes?  Or Dawn to cut the duck oils?  Then I will dry her off with a hair dryer.  Should this get rid of most of the bugs?  I will try it today and see how it works.  Being a duck and she may want to dunk in the water I will use Baby shampoo first.  Wish me luck!