ruthhope
Free Ranging
Hi Hayley
You duck's eye is certainly being irritated by something, but it doesn't look like the foamy eye I have seen. Be assured, she is certainly not going to die from it. It may be being made worse by the treatment given. If she were my duck I would do this:
(1) Keep her somewhere separate from the other ducks, that is clean and safe. Preferably in or near you house where you can keep a good eye on her
(2) make up some saline solution: 1 teaspoon of salt dissolved in 1 cup of boiling water. Allow the saline solution to cool to room temperature. You might mae 4 cups with 4 teaspoons salt in 4 cups of boiling water and after cooled to room temperatur store it in a clean jar or bottle.
Wrap her in a big towel and bathe the eye using cotton wool balls or squares of clean old cotton cloth. Dip a ball of square in the saline solution in a bowl, until dripping, then wipe the eye from the billside, across the eye and the area behind the eye that is red and irritated. Discard the ball/cloth. Repeat 3 or 4 times with a fresh cotton wool ball or square of clean cloth, then discard any solution left in the bowl: don't put it into your stored saline.
(3) Keep her quiet, but ensure she has available a deep tub of water that she can submerge her head in at all times. Bathe her eye 4 times in the first day
After 24 hours, you can drop off the bathing to twice a day for a couple of days; if the eye is getting better continue twice or once a day until she is OK
(4) If the eye is is not getting better after 4 days of bathing, then start using tetracycline or terramycin eye ointment twice a day. You can buy eye ointment at your local supermarket or pharmacy. Bathe the eye as in (2) above and then smear the eye ointment around the eye and across the irritated area behind the eye.
You should then see a definite improvement in 2 or 3 days
Once the eye is getting better, you can let her out with her ducky friends and just catch her in the morning, when you let them out of their duck house and again in the even when you are putting them away in the duck house, for her eye care
Good luck -- you can do this and she will probably get better!
You duck's eye is certainly being irritated by something, but it doesn't look like the foamy eye I have seen. Be assured, she is certainly not going to die from it. It may be being made worse by the treatment given. If she were my duck I would do this:
(1) Keep her somewhere separate from the other ducks, that is clean and safe. Preferably in or near you house where you can keep a good eye on her
(2) make up some saline solution: 1 teaspoon of salt dissolved in 1 cup of boiling water. Allow the saline solution to cool to room temperature. You might mae 4 cups with 4 teaspoons salt in 4 cups of boiling water and after cooled to room temperatur store it in a clean jar or bottle.
Wrap her in a big towel and bathe the eye using cotton wool balls or squares of clean old cotton cloth. Dip a ball of square in the saline solution in a bowl, until dripping, then wipe the eye from the billside, across the eye and the area behind the eye that is red and irritated. Discard the ball/cloth. Repeat 3 or 4 times with a fresh cotton wool ball or square of clean cloth, then discard any solution left in the bowl: don't put it into your stored saline.
(3) Keep her quiet, but ensure she has available a deep tub of water that she can submerge her head in at all times. Bathe her eye 4 times in the first day
After 24 hours, you can drop off the bathing to twice a day for a couple of days; if the eye is getting better continue twice or once a day until she is OK
(4) If the eye is is not getting better after 4 days of bathing, then start using tetracycline or terramycin eye ointment twice a day. You can buy eye ointment at your local supermarket or pharmacy. Bathe the eye as in (2) above and then smear the eye ointment around the eye and across the irritated area behind the eye.
You should then see a definite improvement in 2 or 3 days
Once the eye is getting better, you can let her out with her ducky friends and just catch her in the morning, when you let them out of their duck house and again in the even when you are putting them away in the duck house, for her eye care
Good luck -- you can do this and she will probably get better!
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when you say smear the terramycin cream should i put it arouns the eye in thw feathers not actually in her eye? what if it gets in her eyeball will that hurt her
