Da' Cute and Cuddly Call Duck thread!

[Julie Birb]

I house my 2 call hens with my 1 call drake in a secure coop at night. This morning when I let them out my drake had his left eye poked out! I'm sure nothing was able to get in the coop. Would a hen do that to avoid breeding? He has been rather aggressive lately. Should I have been housing them separately at night? This is my first season with breeders. I usually just purchase and hatch eggs.

oh, no. Will he be okay? That makes me sad.

 

[18angovem]

I house my 2 call hens with my 1 call drake in a secure coop at night. This morning when I let them out my drake had his left eye poked out! I'm sure nothing was able to get in the coop. Would a hen do that to avoid breeding? He has been rather aggressive lately. Should I have been housing them separately at night? This is my first season with breeders. I usually just purchase and hatch eggs.

I have no clue! I have had no problem with drakes being in with hens?

 

[Ledgewood7]

I think will be ok. I am going to pick up an eye ointment today. I'm really not sure what happened. Maybe he caught it on something? Something is telling me it was pecked out though.

 

[Julie Birb]

I think will be ok. I am going to pick up an eye ointment today. I'm really not sure what happened. Maybe he caught it on something? Something is telling me it was pecked out though.

Whew, good and glad you are getting him medicine.

 

[Amykins]

Whew, good and glad you are getting him medicine.

X2! Poor lil' guy...

 

[clousert]

I think will be ok. I am going to pick up an eye ointment today. I'm really not sure what happened. Maybe he caught it on something? Something is telling me it was pecked out though.

I have 2 that are missing an eye. 1 lost his during shipping somehow and another lost hers when she was a baby somehow. Not sure how it happened with either of them. My hen was just a tiny newborn with other tiny newborns. Neither of them needed any eye ointment. I always have it on hand but ducks are very resilient and antibiotics should only be used if there's an existing infection. If you use it when there's not they will build a resistance to it and it will not work if they do happen to get an infection. Neither of them require any special treatment now and do just fine with only the 1 eye, although they are in an enclosed area, safe from predators and such anyway. Hope yours heals up quickly and without incident also.

 

[SilkieSensation]

I think will be ok. I am going to pick up an eye ointment today. I'm really not sure what happened. Maybe he caught it on something? Something is telling me it was pecked out though.

I had a welsh harlequin get his eye severely damaged at a few weeks old. I just washed it with clear water & put a dap of neosporin (no painkiller) on/in it once daily for 3-4 days until it started to look better. He was very obviously blind in that eye but it never got infected or matted up. He did fine in the pen, but I never tried to free range him.

I also acquired an adult pekin pair in which the drake was blind in 1 eye. He & the female were closely bonded. She always stayed on his blind side & would bump him to turn him if she wanted him to move away from something.

 

[clousert]

I had a welsh harlequin get his eye severely damaged at a few weeks old. I just washed it with clear water & put a dap of neosporin (no painkiller) on/in it once daily for 3-4 days until it started to look better. He was very obviously blind in that eye but it never got infected or matted up. He did fine in the pen, but I never tried to free range him.

I also acquired an adult pekin pair in which the drake was blind in 1 eye. He & the female were closely bonded. She always stayed on his blind side & would bump him to turn him if she wanted him to move away from something.

Awww. Sad but cute

 

[Ledgewood7]

Thanks everyone. Other than tilting his head funny he seems fine.

 

[SilkieSensation]

He will do that to compensate for the loss of part of his visual field. It's normal with an eye injury.