Bloody vent

[Amiga]

It certainly could use some ointment. Can you get her to a vet? Forgive me if I have already asked - getting a little tired right now, don't remember. Some use Manuka honey for infections.

 

[TwoDogFarm]

It certainly could use some ointment.  Can you get her to a vet?  Forgive me if I have already asked - getting a little tired right now, don't remember.  Some use Manuka honey for infections.

Unfortunately we don't have a vet around here that specializes in birds. I will try putting some ointment on it and see how that helps.

 

[Amykins]

Unfortunately we don't have a vet around here that specializes in birds. I will try putting some ointment on it and see how that helps.

Any vet can recognize an infection and calculate the proper antibiotic dosage based on weight, What about the vet that treated her when she was egg bound?

 

[Miss Lydia]

Soak her in a nice Epsom Salt water bath[warm] don't let her drink it. then dry it real good and put tripe antibiotic or some other kind of antibiotic ointment on it. She's isolated for the flock right?

I understand when you can't use a vet.

 

[TwoDogFarm]

Any vet can recognize an infection and calculate the proper antibiotic dosage based on weight, What about the vet that treated her when she was egg bound?

My husband and I were able to work the egg out ourselves on that...

 

[TwoDogFarm]

Soak her in a nice Epsom Salt water bath[warm] don't let her drink it. then dry it real good and put tripe antibiotic or some other kind of antibiotic ointment on it. She's isolated for the flock right?

I understand when you can't use a vet.

She is sharing a space with another duck who is sick right now actually but she is inside and isolated from all the rest of them.

 

[TwoDogFarm]

Also, we ended up getting a ton of snow that started yesterday evening and went through to this morning. I don't think I could get her to a vet today...

 

[Miss Lydia]

Also, we ended up getting a ton of snow that started yesterday evening and went through to this morning. I don't think I could get her to a vet today...

We got the snow too.

 

[casportpony]

It would probably be good to stick her in a bath tub of warm water, clean her vent and repost pictures of the vent after she's had a good soak and cleaning. I'm on the iPad, so can't see the pictures very well, but it looks like maybe she has a prolapsed vent?

-Kathy

 

[TwoDogFarm]

It would probably be good to stick her in a bath tub of warm water, clean her vent and repost pictures of the vent after she's had a good soak and cleaning. I'm on the iPad, so can't see the pictures very well, but it looks like maybe she has a prolapsed vent?

-Kathy

We put her in a tub of warm water and then blow dried her off. This is what it looks like now. I believe the black area is scabs. I put some triple antibiotic ointment on her vent.