Duck emergency

[Maverick360]

We had 3 ducks and 12 chickens. Last night they were attacked.

1 chicken enclosed in a coop and run was dead outside the run.

1 duck outside its coop with no run was dead.

1 other duck was injured.

No other animal was harmed.

For the injured duck, is this wound bad or will saline and bandages suffice? This is our first attack after having birds for 3 years. I have all of the normal medical supplies like wraps and antibiotics.

I have no idea what animal did this. I know we have a feline and raccoon issue in our neighborhood but everything I’ve read, these injuries don’t match. I can send photos of the chicken and duck if needed. The chicken was already sick and molting.

 

[nuthatched]

Saline and some neosporin or similar.
What type of wounds do the chicken and other duck have.

 

[Maverick360]

Saline and some neosporin or similar.
What type of wounds do the chicken and other duck have.

The duck had a gaping hole in its back… the chicken a small nibble or something. The chicken is hard to tell with all of the molting and pecking from other chickens.

 

[ruthhope]

I recommend pouring luke warm salt water solution into the wound. Then spray with Kote Blue. The purple gentian violet in Kote Blue is antiseptic. Leave the wound open to heal from below. Keep the duck quiet and separate until up and running around and eating normally.

Vetwrap or other bandages not needed.

I cared for 3 severely injured pekins this summer: attacked by a run away husky from down the street that climbed the 4ft gate to get in.

I kept all 3 injured ducks in individual pet carriers in my bathroom . The least injured, with puncture wounds over the spine, could not walk initially. But slowly recovered over 2 weeks. The other two had great flaps of skin and muscle pulled down and one, the drake, I think had the chest wall pierced but not the lungs as no blood came from the bill but there was a lot of gurgling with his breathing. I think fangs got through the chest wall but not all the layers of the pleura, the linings over the lungs. The two most severely injured were in their pet carriers for three weeks before they were well enough to float in shallow water in my bath . They spent an extra day sitting in the empty bath but then went back to their owner in a partitioned off part of a run that was constructed while the injured ducks were with me

So don't worry. Clean the wounds with saline solution, spray with kote blue then keep quite and confined until recovering. By leaving the wounds open, any infection will drain out and not cause an abscess. My three ducky patients did not drain, their wounds were dried by the Kote blue.

 

[StinkyAcres]

Any signs of damage to the coops and run? If not it might have been a weasel.

 

[RevLIT]

Vetricine and bluecoat are my go to's for bird injuries. My Roxie had her entire back torn open by an eagle. No feathers and an open wound from neck to tail. I cleaned and treated it multiple times daily. She'll never win a beauty contest, but she is perfectly healthy 5 years later.

I am very sorry about your losses. So hard to find the destruction.