Drakes Penis isn't going back inside him

Ducklingmum

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Hi all,

I am hoping this doesn't get censored!

so I have a 18 month old drake who has been ill with a bacterial infection for a couple of days, vet gave antobiotic and gave him the all clear this morning.

I have just noticed that his penis is out a little bit and not going back inside of him. It is not fully out just a bit but it looks red.

Not sure what to do, any suggestions?

Thanks all x
 
Hi all,

I am hoping this doesn't get censored!

so I have a 18 month old drake who has been ill with a bacterial infection for a couple of days, vet gave antobiotic and gave him the all clear this morning.

I have just noticed that his penis is out a little bit and not going back inside of him. It is not fully out just a bit but it looks red.

Not sure what to do, any suggestions?

Thanks all x
Can you post some pictures of it? And may I suggest that you also email those pictures to your vet?

If he were mine I would catch him, clean his penis really well, cover his penis with an antibiotic cream like Neosporin and try to re-insert it. Hopefully it's not infected and will stay in. But still since he's under the care of a vet I think it would be best for you to contact them because they might want to see him and they might want to give him some antibiotics.

This link has some good info:
http://www.duckdvm.com/condition/penis-prolapse

This link has good info too:
http://wildpro.twycrosszoo.org/S/00dis/Miscellaneous/Prolapsed_Phallus.htm

A vet here on BYC wrote this:
I am an avian specialist and I see these ocassionally. Sorry I missed this post until 18 months later, but in case someone else comes across this in the future, I recommend the following:
  1. Separate the drake from females. Typically this is a problem affecting young, exuberant drakes. If you take away the temptation then their phallus will stay put and get the rest it sorely needs.
  2. If the tissue is too swollen to replace or is black, green, dead then see an avian vet first.
  3. If not, gently cleanse the phallus and, if possible without too much misery, lube it up with KY or similar water-soluble jelly and tuck it back inside the cloaca. Sometimes, if the duck is cooperative, you can try applying a hypertonic sugar solution to help shrink the swollen tissue. Most ducks are not this patient.
  4. If it pops right back out and there is danger of it getting stepped on or beat up, go see an avian vet.

The most important steps the vet can provide that you can't are pain relief, anti-inflammatory drugs, and, in the case of a phallus that keeps popping back out, they can apply a couple of temporary sutures across the vent to hold the phallus in place while it heals. The procedure can be performed in most ducks while awake and using just a local anesthetic-- so not too expensive. Usually this is all that's needed and the sutures can come out in 10-14 days (often they pop out on their own). In very few cases, where the phallus has devitalized or become injured, or fails to heal after the initial vent sutures, then amputation is necessary. Some birds will have long-term complications from this, depending upon how the amputation is performed.
 
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