Duck lost entire chest by turtle attack - help!

[moomoodiddy]

A cotter bite off my ducks foot and she survived with no help but now she is afraid of the pond..I'm sorry but I don't think its gonna survive with a gash like that

 

[dbolak]

My son says hot dogs attract turtles. Hope that helps catching it. Glad to hear your duck is on the mend. Mine had a huge laceration but not much bleeding. We were lucky that my husband is a dentist and had suture in the office as well as sterile saline. We repaired her wound ourselves, put her on antibiotics and now she loves us. I am sure your duck is very thankful for your love.

 

[Amiga]

Wondering what the post op care involves? (Ever seeking to learn more)

 

[knightie]

A cotter bite off my ducks foot and she survived with no help but now she is afraid of the pond..I'm sorry but I don't think its gonna survive with a gash like that

I guess you missed where they said the vet said it should make a full recovery....

As a former vet tech I can say people underestimate what an animal can recover from!

 

[Miss Lydia]

I guess you missed where they said the vet said it should make a full recovery....
As a former vet tech I can say people underestimate what an animal can recover from!

Amen to that.

 

[Littlesplashers]

Glad to hear your little friend is on the mend. I had a runner with a severe chest wound from a turtle many years ago. The vet flushed the wound and gave us a bag of sterile saline to contiue with at home. He also gave us a pot of burn cream. We never thought "Benny" would live but he did. He also had a wound on his leg (it was skinned). Ever since that incident I keep a pot of that burn cream on hand. The turtle didnt make it. When I found Benny it was because the other ducks were giving the distress call. I ran to the pond and saw Benny franticly beating his wings at the bank of the pond as if trying to scramble out. The turtle had him by the leg- it was huge! The nearest thing was an oar... I've never killed anything in my life but my mama instincts kicked in and I slamed the oar down on the snapper until it let go. I found it dead 2 days later.

**forgot! amazing thing_ all the skin and feathers on his chest and leg grew back like nothing ever happened!

 

[4seasonsmama]

Glad to hear of your happy ending! (not so happy ending for the turtle, but I would have done the same thing) Our "Rhino" is thankfully fully recovered - feathers and all! A number of huge alligator snappers have been in the area though and we hope for the best for the future. We are unable to do anything about the turtles in our neighborhood pond.

 

[moomoodiddy]

I guess you missed where they said the vet said it should make a full recovery....
As a former vet tech I can say people underestimate what an animal can recover from!

sorry i didnt see that part!!! teust me i have seen animals come back from death i know exactly wat ur talkin bout

 

[moomoodiddy]

as for the turtles if ur good on the ides of killing them or relocating them trap um

 

[BBnME2]

One thing you can do for the future is try to find and remove the turtle if you can so you no longer have any more ducks being seriously injured because of them. There's a small pond by my house and I had raised 2 ducklings to mature adults and released them at the pond, we had no idea the pond had snapping turtles in it and one of the ducks had half of his beak torn off by a large snapping turtle. It may sound like a crusade but after spending days trying to remove every single snapping turtle out of the pond and relocating them miles away we no longer have problems with our ducks being attacked by snapping turtles. It's a sad freak accident and I hope your duck makes a full recovery.

Did you have to put your duck down or could a emergency vet do anything to fix his beak? My duck had his bottom beak torn off when I came home tonight ..