Duck injury neck swollen puncture wounds help

[WhiteTreeOfGondor]

Let us know how she is in the morning.

I will! Thank you for your help.

 

[ruthhope]

I have no experience of this sort of injury but I immediately wondered whether it were a snake bite when I saw the photograph. @WhiteTreeOfGondor when you wrote that you washed her neck and didn't actually see puncture holes, I even more thought of a snake bite.

No matter, whatever is the cause of the trauma, I think you can only clean up the wound and keep it clean until healed, and preemptively treat for shock. Keeping your girl quiet and calm is important. If her guy helps with the keeping her calm then a dogcrate by him in the coop is a good idea. But let her stay there for a few days -- no foraging outside getting dirty and excited!!!

Good luck, and keep us posted!

 

[BelovedBirds]

How is she doing this morning?

 

[WhiteTreeOfGondor]

I have no experience of this sort of injury but I immediately wondered whether it were a snake bite when I saw the photograph. @WhiteTreeOfGondor when you wrote that you washed her neck and didn't actually see puncture holes, I even more thought of a snake bite.

No matter, whatever is the cause of the trauma, I think you can only clean up the wound and keep it clean until healed, and preemptively treat for shock. Keeping your girl quiet and calm is important. If her guy helps with the keeping her calm then a dogcrate by him in the coop is a good idea. But let her stay there for a few days -- no foraging outside getting dirty and excited!!!

Good luck, and keep us posted!

How is she doing this morning?

She seems to be doing quite well this morning . She was eating and drinking and taking interest in her surroundings. Her throat is still swollen. I'm going to bring her back in for another warm bath and ointment. Is it usual for snakebite to not show the punctures? If it was snakebite, at least I don't think it could have been venomous.

 

[Miss Lydia]

I am not sure but it seems like if it was a snake bite there would be punctures but maybe not. Have you checked your fencing to see if anything is out of sorts which could tell you she got her head stuck? What type of fencing?
Great to hear she is acting normal.

 

[WhiteTreeOfGondor]

I am not sure but it seems like if it was a snake bite there would be punctures but maybe not. Have you checked your fencing to see if anything is out of sorts which could tell you she got her head stuck? What type of fencing?
Great to hear she is acting normal.

Not yet, I'll walk around it to see if I notice anything. It's mostly field fence with 2x4" holes, but some is large holed cattle fencing with poultry wire behind.
I clipped around the throat wound a bit and still don't see a puncture. Compared to yesterday the swelling looks down.

 

[Miss Lydia]

She's so pretty. Good to hear the swelling is going down. Really hard to know what she has done. I had woven wire fencing up one time [bears took care of it] but I put chicken wire over it and found one of my Muscovy had stuck her head through the chicken wire. Thankfully she hadn't been stuck long and I cut the wire to get her out. But if she had fought to get loose I'm sure she would have cut herself up. It's amazing what they can do to cause injuries to themselves.

 

[WhiteTreeOfGondor]

She's so pretty. Good to hear the swelling is going down. Really hard to know what she has done. I had woven wire fencing up one time [bears took care of it] but I put chicken wire over it and found one of my Muscovy had stuck her head through the chicken wire. Thankfully she hadn't been stuck long and I cut the wire to get her out. But if she had fought to get loose I'm sure she would have cut herself up. It's amazing what they can do to cause injuries to themselves.

Thank you . I didn't see anything along the fence but she wasn't missing feathers so there wouldn't be much to tell if that's what happened. That's scary about your muscovy, those chicken wire holes are so small.