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My 4 month old peking female duck was attacked by a large dog on Thursday (3-4 days ago)
This forum has been a life saver so far and I want to say thank you
I've been dunking my duck in home made saline (5 gallons of tapwater to one cup of non iodized salt)
I picked off as many maggots as I could find using gloved hands and sprayed her down with a solution of permethryn (1:200 as mentioned in the instructions dilution for poultry) i used 3/4 of a teaspoon to 24 fl oz of water in a spary bottle
yesterday after she dried off I sprayed bluekote on her wounds
she is separated from the flock in a tote with fresh pine bedding and water
she is drinking, not eating, i am hopeful she will recover. i am going to keep posted.
The following is a record of what I've done I'm posting in order to help others as I was helped immensly by this forum and am eternally grateful for the people who posted and responded and gave me and my family ideas and things to try.
Day one:
In the afternoon on Thursday I came home to find her under a shed, she already had flies on her.
my very large dog had broken off her harness and attacked my birds. One duck is still missing, its been 3 days but I'm still hopeful that he will return.
This duck (Daisy) has two neck wounds, her entire back has no feathers, one wound on her left elbow and one wound on her left lower thigh.
Initially I had cleaned out the coop and soaked her in warm water to "clean" her wounds
(in retrospect I should have/would have done a much more thorough cleaning and quarantined her at this stage to prevent what ended up happening with the maggots) I applied vasoline to the wounds
Day 2: I kept her and the other birds affected inside an open enclosure with water and food. I bathed her again, this time my kids were scouring the interwebs for what to do, the wounds looked bad and my partner pointed out maggots. I was in denial at this point and just washed her in warm salt water. and rinsed her in another tub of saltwater right after. I didn't measure the salt. I rinsed the wounds with hydrogen peroxide (not thoroughly enough) I applied triple antibiotic ointment
Day 3: I woke up at 5:30 am completely freaking out realizing that I had been in denial and that I needed to do something, I did more research but only came up with the same things I had been reading - I resolved to bathe her as soon as it was light out and go to the store and try and buy something for it, in my mind I thought I'd be able to purchase an antibiotic but i wasn't able to
I looked up a saline recipe which was something like 2 teaspoons to a cup of water ~ 3 tablespoons of salt to one gallon of water which equaled out to 15 tablepoons of salt for my 5 gallon bucket. I made 2 buckets worth and placed daisy inside - the water turned bloody and I was balling my eyes out not sure if she would make it. The infestation from the maggots at this point was so disgusting, they just seemed to be everywhere. It was really gross. again I am thankful for this forum and reading about other people going through this I had somewhat of a plan.
at tractor supply they had some bluekote which I read about - but further reading I'm not sure if this is a good thing or not but it is what I used. and I bought some permethrin labeled for poultry with a mixture solution for birds. I got a spray bottle and a squeegie, like for windows, to help scrape the maggots off.
When I came home I salt water bathed her again, this time squeezing the maggots out of the wounds and scraping every last one I could find. I switched her into 3 different buckets of water and repeated. She was SUCH a good sport.
I dried her off and applied the bluekote to her wounds
My partner and oldest suggested we quarantine her at this point so more flies didn't get to her in the coop I set up a tote with pine shavings from when she was a duckling. Daisy is now a purple blue color!
Upon further research last night we read that bluekote isn't always advised because it's hard to tell if the wound is healing and it stains.
Day 4: (this morning) I bathed her again in salt water and to my delight I found that only ONE of her many wounds still had maggots, it was a deep wound on the side of her neck and I thought i'd need tweezers but i was able to remove them. I sprayed her with the premethryn, dired her off and applied triple antibiotic ointment.
Below is an excerpt from a paper I found on myiasis (maggot infestation in humans, where there is a bit more information)
I will keep the forum posted of the happenings.
Again I want to extend my deep gratitude for this forum and the people on here sharing their knowledge and leaving up their posts after healing has occurred. My oldest read about Cuddles the chicken a very severe case that gave us hope that Daisy can pull through.
Yesterday morning I was very distraught and panicking and on the way to tractor supply my youngest pointed out a very heart shaped cloud which also gave me hope.
Please take a moment to send out good vibes to any being going through pain and suffering right now. sending much love and light.
I hope my account of what is going on helps others in the future.
My 4 month old peking female duck was attacked by a large dog on Thursday (3-4 days ago)
This forum has been a life saver so far and I want to say thank you
I've been dunking my duck in home made saline (5 gallons of tapwater to one cup of non iodized salt)
I picked off as many maggots as I could find using gloved hands and sprayed her down with a solution of permethryn (1:200 as mentioned in the instructions dilution for poultry) i used 3/4 of a teaspoon to 24 fl oz of water in a spary bottle
yesterday after she dried off I sprayed bluekote on her wounds
she is separated from the flock in a tote with fresh pine bedding and water
she is drinking, not eating, i am hopeful she will recover. i am going to keep posted.
The following is a record of what I've done I'm posting in order to help others as I was helped immensly by this forum and am eternally grateful for the people who posted and responded and gave me and my family ideas and things to try.
Day one:
In the afternoon on Thursday I came home to find her under a shed, she already had flies on her.
my very large dog had broken off her harness and attacked my birds. One duck is still missing, its been 3 days but I'm still hopeful that he will return.
This duck (Daisy) has two neck wounds, her entire back has no feathers, one wound on her left elbow and one wound on her left lower thigh.
Initially I had cleaned out the coop and soaked her in warm water to "clean" her wounds
(in retrospect I should have/would have done a much more thorough cleaning and quarantined her at this stage to prevent what ended up happening with the maggots) I applied vasoline to the wounds
Day 2: I kept her and the other birds affected inside an open enclosure with water and food. I bathed her again, this time my kids were scouring the interwebs for what to do, the wounds looked bad and my partner pointed out maggots. I was in denial at this point and just washed her in warm salt water. and rinsed her in another tub of saltwater right after. I didn't measure the salt. I rinsed the wounds with hydrogen peroxide (not thoroughly enough) I applied triple antibiotic ointment
Day 3: I woke up at 5:30 am completely freaking out realizing that I had been in denial and that I needed to do something, I did more research but only came up with the same things I had been reading - I resolved to bathe her as soon as it was light out and go to the store and try and buy something for it, in my mind I thought I'd be able to purchase an antibiotic but i wasn't able to
I looked up a saline recipe which was something like 2 teaspoons to a cup of water ~ 3 tablespoons of salt to one gallon of water which equaled out to 15 tablepoons of salt for my 5 gallon bucket. I made 2 buckets worth and placed daisy inside - the water turned bloody and I was balling my eyes out not sure if she would make it. The infestation from the maggots at this point was so disgusting, they just seemed to be everywhere. It was really gross. again I am thankful for this forum and reading about other people going through this I had somewhat of a plan.
at tractor supply they had some bluekote which I read about - but further reading I'm not sure if this is a good thing or not but it is what I used. and I bought some permethrin labeled for poultry with a mixture solution for birds. I got a spray bottle and a squeegie, like for windows, to help scrape the maggots off.
When I came home I salt water bathed her again, this time squeezing the maggots out of the wounds and scraping every last one I could find. I switched her into 3 different buckets of water and repeated. She was SUCH a good sport.
I dried her off and applied the bluekote to her wounds
My partner and oldest suggested we quarantine her at this point so more flies didn't get to her in the coop I set up a tote with pine shavings from when she was a duckling. Daisy is now a purple blue color!
Upon further research last night we read that bluekote isn't always advised because it's hard to tell if the wound is healing and it stains.
Day 4: (this morning) I bathed her again in salt water and to my delight I found that only ONE of her many wounds still had maggots, it was a deep wound on the side of her neck and I thought i'd need tweezers but i was able to remove them. I sprayed her with the premethryn, dired her off and applied triple antibiotic ointment.
Below is an excerpt from a paper I found on myiasis (maggot infestation in humans, where there is a bit more information)
I will keep the forum posted of the happenings.
https://www.clwk.ca/get-resource/removal-of-non-therapeutic-maggots-myiasis-procedure/
Again I want to extend my deep gratitude for this forum and the people on here sharing their knowledge and leaving up their posts after healing has occurred. My oldest read about Cuddles the chicken a very severe case that gave us hope that Daisy can pull through.
Yesterday morning I was very distraught and panicking and on the way to tractor supply my youngest pointed out a very heart shaped cloud which also gave me hope.
Please take a moment to send out good vibes to any being going through pain and suffering right now. sending much love and light.
I hope my account of what is going on helps others in the future.
