Thank you so much for responding to my post! I kept her under observation for about half a day. She seemed to be doing a good job of taking care of herself on her own. She didn't root around in the mud with the other ducks, she just floated on the pond and took it easy for a few days. So I knew...
So yesterday my duck got a bill smashed underneath a patio brick while worm hunting. Today I noticed that it has wrinkles across the top so I'm wondering if it cracked it I read something about super glue and tea bags but I didn't really grasp how to do it. Or if it's even needed for this case I...
She is a Brahma, age approx.4, guessing around 6 lbs, definitely not on the thin side, her vent has a rotting smell and doesn't want it touched or cleaned, has a yellowish build up around the outer edge, no signs of trauma, no signs of trauma, she eats all flock mixed with scratch grains, cooked...
I noticed a rotting smell when I picked up my aunts hen, so I inspected her and found the area around her vent seems to be caked with this yellow stinky pasty stuff. Gave her a soak and then washed the area with Dawn dish soap. Which made a small improvement. I tried to remove some of the pasty...
That's terrible. Poor babies. I hope they all heal quickly without complications. Welding wire with the smaller squares would prevent that from happening again.