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@HayesCircus It's been some time but I believe it took about 2-4 weeks for that lady to heal up. We kept her isolated with a couple of mellow chickens and to keep her company as other ducks were picking on her and she couldn't keep up physically. Her lung was permanently deflated as she would...

Well it's been over a month and she seems to be all better. she seems to have a permanant hole in her chest that's plugged with some bit of dried tissue. I suppose she'll always have to be isolated and i'm a little scared to let her try and swim. i'll try and include pictures when i figure out how.

Oh yeah the oven incubator. Most ovens with pilotlights maintain and internal temp of about 99 deg. I put in a dish of water and cover the eggs with a wet paper towel. The barometer in Hawaii is usually about 65 percent so its pretty easy.

Oh yeah the oven incubator. Most ovens with pilotlights maintain and internal temp of about 99 deg. I put in a dish of water and cover the eggs with a wet paper towel. The barometer in Hawaii is usually about 65 percent so its pretty easy.

I ended up giving her 3 stitches because she opened her lung wound into her crop by kicking around and go her toe into the hole and cut it wider. So 1 stitch in the crop and 2 in the lung. Plus moRe penicillin and a saline rinse. She didn't like it and tried to pull the stitches so I need to get...

I had a friend tell me that I should clean the wound really good and sow up the outside regardless of what the internal injury is. Problem now is that the bleeding started again and its starting to smell bad. I found a Vet that will look at her for cheap but cannot get to her, or a store for...

Ok 24 hours have gone by and she's eating and drinking on her own. The hole is showing signs of necrosis around the edges and it smells like wound and food, not rot. I'm now wondering if its a hole in her crop and not the lung. It still bleeds a bit but only cause she freakS out when I grab her...

My female muskovi flew the pen and one of our dogs either bit her or drove her into a stick. Her chest was bleeding bad so I wrapped her in a towel until the bleeding slowed. After cutting away the feathers surrounding the quarter sized hole I rinsed the wound with h2o2 and what I assumed was...