Duck eye injury

[Ssutor]

Hi all, I am pretty sure our daisys bad eye is due to mating. Any advice please? Could it be possible infection?

here is a photo of her good eye and bad eye to compare...

 

[Isaac 0]

Could you describe what you think is wrong with her bad eye?
Excluding the minor dirt around the eye, it appears to be in good shape.
If there is some feather loss around the eye, that is likely due to the males rather than an infection.

 

[Ssutor]

Could you describe what you think is wrong with her bad eye?
Excluding the minor dirt around the eye, it appears to be in good shape.
If there is some feather loss around the eye, that is likely due to the males rather than an infection.

Yes so it was looking a little more pink and swolen, less feathers and then that darker patch top left just looks a little swolen, I thought maybe that part was a cut/injury?

Is there anything you can do to reduce mating

 

[Isaac 0]

Yes so it was looking a little more pink and swolen, less feathers and then that darker patch top left just looks a little swolen, I thought maybe that part was a cut/injury?

When we have males constantly pecking at a females eye, there is going to be an inflammatory reaction, so (swelling, redness, discharge, etc) this is not necessarily indicative the area is infected, and from the pictures, you provided the problem seems to have largely resolved itself.


If in the unfortunate case this does happen again, a good lavage(flushing) of the area with saline will help lavage out any debris, or bacteria from the eye. Ophthalmic ointments can be obtained at your feed store, with and without antibiotics to help treat conjunctivitis in the eye.

The only effective way to reduce mating, it to either separate/rehome the males/ or females from each other or add more females to the flock so there is more dispersion between the mating.

 

[Ssutor]

When we have males constantly pecking at a females eye, there is going to be an inflammatory reaction, so (swelling, redness, discharge, etc) this is not necessarily indicative the area is infected, and from the pictures, you provided the problem seems to have largely resolved itself.


If in the unfortunate case this does happen again, a good lavage(flushing) of the area with saline will help lavage out any debris, or bacteria from the eye. Ophthalmic ointments can be obtained at your feed store, with and without antibiotics to help treat conjunctivitis in the eye.

The only effective way to reduce mating, it to either separate/rehome the males/ or females from each other or add more females to the flock so there is more dispersion between the mating.

Thank you this is great advice, really appreciate it

 

[Ssutor]

When we have males constantly pecking at a females eye, there is going to be an inflammatory reaction, so (swelling, redness, discharge, etc) this is not necessarily indicative the area is infected, and from the pictures, you provided the problem seems to have largely resolved itself.


If in the unfortunate case this does happen again, a good lavage(flushing) of the area with saline will help lavage out any debris, or bacteria from the eye. Ophthalmic ointments can be obtained at your feed store, with and without antibiotics to help treat conjunctivitis in the eye.

The only effective way to reduce mating, it to either separate/rehome the males/ or females from each other or add more females to the flock so there is more dispersion between the mating.

Isaac just to check, could I do this with normal table/sea salt mixed with hot water and use a cotton pad to wipe over the cut?

 

[Isaac 0]

Isaac just to check, could I do this with normal table/sea salt mixed with hot water and use a cotton pad to wipe over the cut?

You can use the recipe mentioned below:
https://www.healthline.com/health/make-your-own-saline-solution

Or buy a saline wash at your local health store.

You can apply a damp warm compress to the eye, or directly flush it with an eye dropper or syringe.