Flystrike duck please help!!

[MazBecvar]

Hi my runner duck hasn’t been herself from yesterday. Today I picked her up and checked her and found she has fly eggs around her bottom!! I diluted a product called fasimec which is used for flystrike in sheep and applied the solution to her bottom, I removed as many eggs as I could. Is there another product I could buy asap or does anyone have advise on what I should do next?? THANKYOU in advance

 

[Wyorp Rock]

If you have photos of the wound that would be good.

General care for FlyStrike would be to flush the wound very well and get the maggots out-use tweezers if you need to. You can use salt water, diluted betadine, chlorhexidine, etc.
Once you have the maggots out, reevaluate the wound to see how much damage there is (photos). Apply Vetericyn or triple antibiotic ointment.

Since this is a duck....I would like to see some others chime in with suggestions.
@casportpony @Miss Lydia @Cayuga mama

 

[casportpony]

Welcome to BYC, sorry your duck is ill. Pictures would be helpful. As for treating flystrike in ducks, I treat it the same as I would on any animal. I start by inspecting for wounds and maggots. If maggots are found I remove all with tweezers. If a wound is found, and there almost always is, I remove feathers of fur 1/2" back from edge of wound, then flush as said above with saline and chlorhexadine or betadine.

How to make saline:

• https://intermountainhealthcare.org/ext/Dcmnt?ncid=520684503
• http://www.med.umich.edu/1libr/PedSurgery/ColorectalProgram/SalineSolution.pdf

 

[Folly's place]

Dawn dish soap is good too, if no Nolvasan or Betadine. Permethrin over all. Look hard for every little monster, and the eggs! Treat the wound, and isolate away from flies until healed. It's disgusting!
I've had birds twice here, both times they had severe illnesses, then the flies took over. Fly eggs hatch in 24 hours, and the maggots will have eaten into the body in another 24 hours. Awful!
Mary

 

[Wyorp Rock]

The only thing...what do you do with a duck? Does it not have to go in the water (swim?) at some point or can they manage with a deep bucket of water to dunk their head?

(I know nothing about ducks)

 

[casportpony]

The only thing...what do you do with a duck? Does it not have to go in the water (swim?) at some point or can they manage with a deep bucket of water to dunk their head?

(I know nothing about ducks)

Good question. If this duck has a wound it should be kept someplace clean and dry until the wound heals. They do not need to swim until then. Their water dish doesn't have to be that deep, a couple of inches will work.

 

[MazBecvar]

Thankyou for all your replies. Me and hubby managed to spray off the eggs with a hose and we washed the very small area of broken skin down near her tail feathers (don’t know how she got that injury still) we used a antiseptic rub from my local poultry store to treat the wound and left the duck in a nice house with plenty of food, straw etc but sadly then next morning I found she had died. I think she was unwel before the flies set in, but I don’t know what could have made her ill. I’ve heard of ducks eating poisonous plants but my drake is fine. Thankyou for all the advice, if anything I have learnt valuable info on fly strike.

 

[Wyorp Rock]

I'm sorry to hear you lost her.

 

[Folly's place]

So sorry!
Mary

 

[casportpony]

Very sorry for your loss.