Ello,I've always been a lurker on this page, but me and my family are new to ducks and geese so we don't know what to really do for this type of thing since we've never had our chickens attacked before.
About three days ago my 4 khaki camp-bell's ducklings, 5 roos and 2 Chinese geese were attacked in board day light, it seems a young badger scratched its way in and killed the 5 roos and 1 duck, and critically injuring one duckling.
The one duckling that survived was dubbed Lucky, her head healed up nicely, but she has suffered some brain damage and has been majorly traumatized.
Her reflexes are very slow, she can eat and drink, but it takes awhile for her to find it, she is extremely jumpy. This morning she jumped about 3feet in the air just from her own peep and her tail is always down and she doesn't really walk straight anymore, and she tends to wonder off from the other two before realizing what shes done before running back to the group.
Will she at least recover from being traumatized from this?
The two geese were fine besides a few missing feathers and a few minor scratches here and there or so we thought, one of them now has a swollen neck, it has gone down a little bit, but not much.
Is there something I can do to make the swelling go down? He is eating and
drinking just fine, but just won't stretch his neck out. The bulge is kinda hard and he doesn't really complain when I touch it.
This is Lucky.
This is Shigure.
Sorry this is the only photo I could get of him since he was excited about being out of the "nurse" bucket. xD
The bulge starts at the crease of the bend and ends just below the body, it is bulgy on both sides, but the back is pretty flat and normal.
Any help would be much appreciated!
Thank you very much for your time! =)
P.S Shigure and Lucky are about 8 weeks old.
About three days ago my 4 khaki camp-bell's ducklings, 5 roos and 2 Chinese geese were attacked in board day light, it seems a young badger scratched its way in and killed the 5 roos and 1 duck, and critically injuring one duckling.
The one duckling that survived was dubbed Lucky, her head healed up nicely, but she has suffered some brain damage and has been majorly traumatized.
Her reflexes are very slow, she can eat and drink, but it takes awhile for her to find it, she is extremely jumpy. This morning she jumped about 3feet in the air just from her own peep and her tail is always down and she doesn't really walk straight anymore, and she tends to wonder off from the other two before realizing what shes done before running back to the group.
Will she at least recover from being traumatized from this?
The two geese were fine besides a few missing feathers and a few minor scratches here and there or so we thought, one of them now has a swollen neck, it has gone down a little bit, but not much.
Is there something I can do to make the swelling go down? He is eating and
drinking just fine, but just won't stretch his neck out. The bulge is kinda hard and he doesn't really complain when I touch it.
This is Lucky.
This is Shigure.
Sorry this is the only photo I could get of him since he was excited about being out of the "nurse" bucket. xD
The bulge starts at the crease of the bend and ends just below the body, it is bulgy on both sides, but the back is pretty flat and normal.
Any help would be much appreciated!
Thank you very much for your time! =)
P.S Shigure and Lucky are about 8 weeks old.
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