Duck With Swollen Cheek And Recessed Eye

[Mimi13]

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!

I love mimosas, both the tree and the drink. But this tree is right smack dab up against our barn and alongside the fence that leads to the cockle burr patch and that's not a place you want to be.

 

[Isaac 0]

Thank you very much for this info! I didn’t even think about a sting from inside her mouth, however I have always wondered how ducks could make snacks from all these stinging insects without being stung. I guess I know now...they can’t, unless they’re lucky. I have not looked in her mouth, but I will go get her now and look.

I am interested in giving her some Benadryl, however, I’m not quite sure what this is saying.

The Benadryl dose is 2 to 4 mg per kilogram. The liquid for children is 2.5 mg per ml.
2 mg/kg = 0.9 mg per pound = 0.36 ml per pound of body weight
4 mg/kg = 1.8 mg per pound = 0.73 ml per pound of body weight

Can anyone either elaborate or ‘dumb-it-down’ for me please?

Using a liquid Benadryl where the MG content is 2.5mg per ml, you dose either at 0.36ml per pound, or 0.73ml per pound.

Alternatively, you could dissolve one 25 mg Benadryl tablet in 10ml of distilled water. You will be left with a solution that contains 2.5mg per ml. Dose as suggested above.

 

[Mimi13]

I tried to give Quinny some Benadryl today, a couple of drops on a sardine (in water), but of course she wouldn’t eat while in my lap. Hmmmm, maybe she doesn’t like sardines!

I didn’t push it because the swelling was down some and her eyeball wasn’t as recessed. However, those bubbles were there.

After I put her down she immediately went to the water and bathed. That made me feel good because I haven’t seen her in the water at all since I saw her swollen eye/cheek. I guess she realized earlier that her inner eyelid wouldn’t work.

 

[Mimi13]

Using a liquid Benadryl where the MG content is 2.5mg per ml, you dose either at 0.36ml per pound, or 0.73ml per pound.

Alternatively, you could dissolve one 25 mg Benadryl tablet in 10ml of distilled water. You will be left with a solution that contains 2.5mg per ml. Dose as suggested above.

Thank you.

 

[WannaBeHillBilly]

I love mimosas, both the tree and the drink. But this tree is right smack dab up against our barn and alongside the fence that leads to the cockle burr patch and that's not a place you want to be.

I didn't know that there's a Mimosa drink and i had to look up "cockle burr" and if you're talking about these:

I totally agree with you! You don't want to be anywhere close to those! Nasty stuff, it is growing in my pasture too and guess who brought them home in her feathers? - Hint: White, round and always hungry…

 

[WannaBeHillBilly]

I tried to give Quinny some Benadryl today, a couple of drops on a sardine (in water), but of course she wouldn’t eat while in my lap. Hmmmm, maybe she doesn’t like sardines!

I didn’t push it because the swelling was down some and her eyeball wasn’t as recessed. However, those bubbles were there.
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After I put her down she immediately went to the water and bathed. That made me feel good because I haven’t seen her in the water at all since I saw her swollen eye/cheek. I guess she realized earlier that her inner eyelid wouldn’t work.

Bathing is the best sign for her recovery! - It was the same with Violeta here: She was avoiding water on her head at all cost, until in the evening of day three, she jumped into the freshly filled pool, evicted the two young drakes from this summer and started to dunk her head. And you could see she was enjoying it. Left a big bowl of feather soup behind her - that poor girl is also molting like a slit pillow and her eye was open again.
Dux know what they're doin'! - At least sometimes…

 

[Mimi13]

I didn't know that there's a Mimosa drink and i had to look up "cockle burr" and if you're talking about these:
View attachment 2332553 I totally agree with you! You don't want to be anywhere close to those! Nasty stuff, it is growing in my pasture too and guess who brought them home in her feathers? - Hint: White, round and always hungry…

Oh yeah, a Mimosa is OJ and champagne, and it’s acceptable to drink in the mornings.

And those are “cuckle” burrs as I’ve always called them. They are worse than beggar lice because they hurt. I constantly have to comb them out of the horses’ manes and tails and out of my long-haired dog’s fur.

Poor Blanca Duck. I think it’s her breed cause Petey is right there with her!

 

[BigBlueHen53]

Ugh, cockle burrs! Best way to get them out of a dog is to pull the fur out of the burr, don't try to pull the burr from the fur - it'll just get in tighter. I had cockle burrs and a Golden retriever in New Mexico, now I have beggar lice and a Sheltie in Missouri. Had never heard of beggar lice before I got here. I think the burrs were worse, but it's a close call.

 

[WannaBeHillBilly]

Oh yeah, a Mimosa is OJ and champagne, and it’s acceptable to drink in the mornings.

And those are “cuckle” burrs as I’ve always called them. They are worse than beggar lice because they hurt. I constantly have to comb them out of the horses’ manes and tails and out of my long-haired dog’s fur.

Poor Blanca Duck. I think it’s her breed cause Petey is right there with her!

As i told you: White Layers are as funny and goofy as Pekin ducks, minus the health problems.

 

[WannaBeHillBilly]

Ugh, cockle burrs! Best way to get them out of a dog is to pull the fur out of the burr, don't try to pull the burr from the fur - it'll just get in tighter. I had cockle burrs and a Golden retriever in New Mexico, now I have beggar lice and a Sheltie in Missouri. Had never heard of beggar lice before I got here. I think the burrs were worse, but it's a close call.

Just looked up "beggars lice" and this one »Cenchrus longispinus« is the species i have encountered in the Colorado prairie! It bores through your clothing and make you bleed and you only figure this out only after you've walked a mile into the patch and have to walk back out for a mile and be tortured again. People there called it "Gentle Annie" - what a misleading name!