HeartsHolly17
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- Apr 11, 2020
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Hi,
My step sister and I own four khaki campell ducks and the other day I noticed that one of them had a crusty, goopy eye with a rim of white around it. My sister caught her and put her into isolation, but her eye is milky and blind at this point. She bought her some ointment to help it heal, but now another duck has a blind eye.
I caught her yesterday and her eye is all crusty, goopy, and milky too. Is this an illness that is going around? Or are our chickens pecking at their eyes?
The ducks are kept with my eight chickens in a very large coop overnight and allowed to walk around our huge yard for most of the day. The ducks usually wander to the back of the yard where there’s a creek and play there until nighttime.
The only time i’d think the chickens would peck them is if they were eating and jabbed at them, because otherwise they stay in their separate groups.
There is also a rat that sometimes sneaks in to steal eggs and food. (We’re trying very very hard to get rid of it, but he’s smarter than our traps and I’m a terrible shot) could the rat be hurting them? The one duck who has hurt first went broody next to the rat’s hole.
I’m just a little baffled on the situation. I don’t know much about ducks in comparison to chickens. Any help is appreciated
My step sister and I own four khaki campell ducks and the other day I noticed that one of them had a crusty, goopy eye with a rim of white around it. My sister caught her and put her into isolation, but her eye is milky and blind at this point. She bought her some ointment to help it heal, but now another duck has a blind eye.
I caught her yesterday and her eye is all crusty, goopy, and milky too. Is this an illness that is going around? Or are our chickens pecking at their eyes?
The ducks are kept with my eight chickens in a very large coop overnight and allowed to walk around our huge yard for most of the day. The ducks usually wander to the back of the yard where there’s a creek and play there until nighttime.
The only time i’d think the chickens would peck them is if they were eating and jabbed at them, because otherwise they stay in their separate groups.
There is also a rat that sometimes sneaks in to steal eggs and food. (We’re trying very very hard to get rid of it, but he’s smarter than our traps and I’m a terrible shot) could the rat be hurting them? The one duck who has hurt first went broody next to the rat’s hole.
I’m just a little baffled on the situation. I don’t know much about ducks in comparison to chickens. Any help is appreciated
