Duck with injured eye

[fuzziecreatures]

2 days ago I noticed my 9 month old Welsh Harliequin duck shaking her head a lot in the coop. I don't know exactly what happened. Maybe the 2 drakes were fighting over mating her and someone grabbed her face instead of her neck. I've been keeping her with everyone else the last 2 days but bringing her in twice a day for a clean bath in the tub so she can clean out her eye. I have Neo-Poly-Bac opthalmic ointment that I've been putting in. It wasn't as swollen before but now I can't even get her eye lids open it is so swollen. Any other suggestions?

 

[casportpony]

How does her breathing sound? Any discharge from her nose?

-Kathy

 

[fuzziecreatures]

No sneezing, no nasal discharge, and breathing sounds fine. Other eye is perfectly normal. Her quack is a little off but if I had a runny eye for 2 days, my throat would be sore from it running down.

 

[Amykins]

If your first treatment didn't work and it's getting worse, you gotta break out the hard-hitters. Are you able to get your hands on any vetericyn or sulfa antibiotics? And you mention baths, but are you offering a saline rinse to help curb excess bacteria and soothe it a bit? Poor girl, that looks awful nasty. :/

 

[casportpony]

Sulfa:
https://www.valleyvet.com/ct_detail.html?pgguid=30e078da-7b6a-11d5-a192-00b0d0204ae5
http://www.jefferspet.com/products/di-methox-injection-40-250ml

-Kathy

 

[Amykins]

Sulfa:
https://www.valleyvet.com/ct_detail.html?pgguid=30e078da-7b6a-11d5-a192-00b0d0204ae5
http://www.jefferspet.com/products/di-methox-injection-40-250ml

-Kathy

...How do you DO that?

Nuts. The first one is unavailable and the second treats one COW per powder packet! That'd be like, what, one grain for a duckling?

 

[casportpony]

Quote: The powder is 88%, I think and one teaspoon weighs 3 grams, so with some math it can be done. I hate powders, lol.

-Kathy

 

[casportpony]

Info on the Sulfa powder:

Package weighs 107g
Package contains 94.6g of Sulfadimethoxine
Package is therefore 94.6 ÷ 107 = 0.88 = 88% pure (12% filler)

A friend of mine weighed it and a teaspoon weigh 3 grams.

-Kathy

 

[casportpony]

Not positive, but I think the dose using this powder is 1-2 teaspoons per gallon, but don't quote me on that.

-Kathy

 

[Amykins]

Not positive, but I think the dose using this powder is 1-2 teaspoons per gallon, but don't quote me on that.

-Kathy

Oh...sorry, I sorta assumed the dose was based on the packet, not the water intake. But then again, I've never treated a cow. Did your old roomie ever treat her horses with the stuff?