Duck With Swollen Cheek And Recessed Eye

[Mimi13]

I would try giving 1/4 to 1/2 of a 25 mg tablet of benadryl ((diphenhydramine) if you have some. If you have childrens liquid, you could use that.

Thank you. Since she’s on the smaller side I will give her 1/4 of a tablet.

 

[HalfWayUpAMountain]

We have plenty of stingy things round here - this is my gsd after an 'event' of some kind.....

 

[Mimi13]

We have plenty of stingy things round here - this is my gsd after an 'event' of some kind.....View attachment 2332052

Bless his heart!

 

[WannaBeHillBilly]

That's weird! I had a very similar situation with Violeta Duck last week:

Sorry for the low quality of the picture too, but Violeta was in a lot of pain and was hiding most of the day and it was a nightmare to catch her.
I thought this was a »drake eye« - which is an injury caused by an inexperienced or over excited drake grabbing the duck close to the eye instead of the neck to mate her. But now that you have a duck with almost the same condition i wonder if there is some kind of virus lurking around…

Anyways, what i did was catching the duck (nightmare!) and examining the area around her eye for visible injuries. There were none, but she was experiencing pain when i touched the top of her head, right over the eye. She even bit me and squeaked.
There was not much i could do other than applying an over the counter triple antibiotic ointment around the eye and a little bit into the eye. - You know these little tubes that are sold at the $-stores, make sure you get the one without the lidocain, as lidocain can cause additional irritation to the eye.
Two treatments on two evenings and the eye was so much better, that i let her do her own thing on the third evening.

I still do not know exactly what that was. She could also just have poked something into her eye while composting. - My ducks love to dig for worms in the compost pile, unfortunately there are twigs and stiffer weed-stems in the compost as well as some left-over straw.

As long as her eyeball doesn't turn red, i would not be too worried! She may just have a black eye…

 

[HalfWayUpAMountain]

Bless his heart!

She's a bit 'special needs' bless her - not sure if she ate something with a sting, chased something with a sting that got angry or got bit by a snake. The Bendaryl didnt sort it but the prendisilone did !

 

[Mimi13]

That's weird! I had a very similar situation with Violeta Duck last week:
View attachment 2332053
Sorry for the low quality of the picture too, but Violeta was in a lot of pain and was hiding most of the day and it was a nightmare to catch her.
I thought this was a »drake eye« - which is an injury caused by an inexperienced or over excited drake grabbing the duck close to the eye instead of the neck to mate her. But now that you have a duck with almost the same condition i wonder if there is some kind of virus lurking around…

Anyways, what i did was catching the duck (nightmare!) and examining the area around her eye for visible injuries. There were none, but she was experiencing pain when i touched the top of her head, right over the eye. She even bit me and squeaked.
There was not much i could do other than applying an over the counter triple antibiotic ointment around the eye and a little bit into the eye. - You know these little tubes that are sold at the $-stores, make sure you get the one without the lidocain, as lidocain can cause additional irritation to the eye.
Two treatments on two evenings and the eye was so much better, that i let her do her own thing on the third evening.

I still do not know exactly what that was. She could also just have poked something into her eye while composting. - My ducks love to dig for worms in the compost pile, unfortunately there are twigs and stiffer weed-stems in the compost as well as some left-over straw.

As long as her eyeball doesn't turn red, i would not be too worried! She may just have a black eye…

A black eye!

And bite your tongue on the ‘some kind of virus lurking around!’ Say it ain’t so, HillBilly!

I just went out to get her to give some Benadryl to and she was off with the others, digging around for I don’t know what underneath the mimosa tree. That’s the least favorable part of my yard for a human so I let them be. They’ll head back up to the chicken yard in a bit to get water and I’ll snag her. However, she seems to be fine right now.

 

[HalfWayUpAMountain]

Thats great she's out there doing her duck thang !

Like WBHB, ours love a compost dig and there is all sorts in there - perhaps we should think of that and plant / insect related injuries first moving forward ?

I saw a very a unrefined tug of war over a huge caterpillar yesterday - that could have ended badly !

 

[WannaBeHillBilly]

A black eye!

And bite your tongue on the ‘some kind of virus lurking around!’ Say it ain’t so, HillBilly!

I just went out to get her to give some Benadryl to and she was off with the others, digging around for I don’t know what underneath the mimosa tree. That’s the least favorable part of my yard for a human so I let them be. They’ll head back up to the chicken yard in a bit to get water and I’ll snag her. However, she seems to be fine right now.

What's wrong with a Mimosa tree? - I always wanted to have one, but Texas was too dry and here it is too cold in Winter. Typical Mimosa!

 

[WannaBeHillBilly]

Thats great she's out there doing her duck thang !

Like WBHB, ours love a compost dig and there is all sorts in there - perhaps we should think of that and plant / insect related injuries first moving forward ?

I saw a very a unrefined tug of war over a huge caterpillar yesterday - that could have ended badly !

It has ended very badly. - For the caterpillar!
There are fights over food here every freaking day! Blanca never wants to share with Earthquack, not even a single frog-leg or the mouse's tail! And then things become really, really ugly… They still have some dino-blood in them!

 

[HalfWayUpAMountain]

It has ended very badly. - For the caterpillar!
There are fights over food here every freaking day! Blanca never wants to share with Earthquack, not even a single frog-leg or the mouse's tail! And then things become really, really ugly… They still have some dino-blood in them!

It did end with a sort of explosion of caterpillar and then a lot of scrabbling around for the bits....

Its when they stand still and give you that slightly sideways hard stare.....

Yeap - part 'raptor alright !