Duck head injury *NEED Advice*

[SoecialK74]

I've been a long time lurker by this is my first post. Really need advice and hope y'all can help. Yesterday went to feed my flock and noticed one of my ducks didn't look right. Caught it and realized that part of its (still fairly young and not yet sure of sex) head was missing. Basically the top part, looks like part of the skull even. Left eye is matted with dry blood, as well as top of head. Crazy thing is, it's acting fine, eat drink etc. So of course I go to clean wound and realize I've never dealt with a brain injury before! I opted to only use saline solution to rinse the wound, but I don't want to possibly cause brain damage by using to much pressure. I did extensive googling yesterday and wasn't able to find much. Looks like most (human) head injuries are treated by debridement and oral antibiotics. I put a dab of antibiotic ointment on there last night, seems like it didn't cause any further damage. I put gauze over the wound and today the duck still acts normal. I'm hesitant to take it to a vet as I'm afraid they will just put it down, and they is only one vet in the area that deals with "exotics" and most of the birds they see are parrots. Mostly at this point I'm worried about infection, and whether or not skin will ever grow over the wound. Has anyone ever deal with this?? Will it recover or should I just go ahead and take it to be humanely destroyed?

Idk if you received the picture of my female domestic duck bisch. It’s been a year almost since something had tried killing her. I’ve had to separate her from the rest of my ducks but as you can tell in the picture she has healed up quite nicely. I applied Blu-Kote to her head every other day for a few weeks and gave her warm baths daily. She did the rest I have to say. I’m not sure as to what you’ll be able to do for the ducks eye though, if you look closely at my dicks picture you’ll see her eye hasn’t 100 percent healed up quite yet. I hope your duck is able to get better though best of luck

 

[nuthatched]

Idk if you received the picture of my female domestic duck bisch. It’s been a year almost since something had tried killing her. I’ve had to separate her from the rest of my ducks but as you can tell in the picture she has healed up quite nicely. I applied Blu-Kote to her head every other day for a few weeks and gave her warm baths daily. She did the rest I have to say. I’m not sure as to what you’ll be able to do for the ducks eye though, if you look closely at my dicks picture you’ll see her eye hasn’t 100 percent healed up quite yet. I hope your duck is able to get better though best of luck

This is from 2019, but thanks for your input.
I'd stop thr Bluecote, it can slow healing.

 

[SoecialK74]

This is from 2019, but thanks for your input.
I'd stop thr Bluecote, it can slow healing.

Oh ok thank you. Did your duck end up making it. I hope so

 

[nuthatched]

Oh ok thank you. Did your duck end up making it. I hope so

I'm not the op, op hasn't been on since 2019. I assume it healed fine since we didn't get a report otherwise