Duckling eye infection...

[brooder]

Hi,
My two week old white crested has an eye infection, and it's looking pretty serious. I have forgotten what you are supposed to do to treat these and would appreciate some advice.
Thanks in advance!

 

[Miss Lydia]

Terramycin eye ointment TSC or Vetrycin eye ointment TSC ask about both hopefully they will have either. They should.

Is someone pecking at her?

 

[brooder]

Thank you.
I havent been spending enough time with them to notice, but I'm going to change this and maybe I'll be able to see.

 

[Miss Lydia]

Do they have a bowl deep enoughto dunk their heads into to wash out their eyes and naresthat is very important for their health.

 

[brooder]

I tried giving them one, but they didn't seem to understand what it was. I will try again though. I have been trying to get her to dunk her head in water, but they are not even interested in baths.

 

[Miss Lydia]

Put enough warm water up just to top of their legs to start with. Stay with them of course and just let them get use to the water. Then you can make it deeper always making sure they don't get water logged or chilled after they have played and washed then pat dry and put them right back under heat lamp to preen and dry.

Try something like this you can cut out 2 head holes or make more than one depending on how many ducklings you have

 

[Mrichard0930]

His may not be very helpful but My year old female duck had an eye infection when our babysitter left them in all day in cage on a hot day with older hay. I kept putting her in her pool which was hard because the male would always boot her out or mate so she’d leave. So I only put her in and locked him out wiThin two days of an hour of supervision letting her swim it was gone. I figured it just needed flushing out.

 

[brooder]

Thank you so much for your advice. I just gave them their new dunking bucket and here's hoping they'll appreciate it.

Put enough warm water up just to top of their legs to start with. Stay with them of course and just let them get use to the water. Then you can make it deeper always making sure they don't get water logged or chilled after they have played and washed then pat dry and put them right back under heat lamp to preen and dry.

Try something like this you can cut out 2 head holes or make more than one depending on how many ducklings you have

 

[Miss Lydia]

Let us know how they are doing and I'd def get that eye taken care of.

 

[Horsehill]

Mine is in the same situation, she is just 9 days old.