Hawk attack - duck

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Crowing
11 Years
Jul 10, 2010
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A hawk (I think - we lost an easter egger chicken yesterday and I scared the hawk off) attacked my blue runner duck today. She's almost 10.
I see just one wound so far, under her wing where it attaches to the body. I've managed to slow the bleeding, but I can't really tell how bad it is as I'm afraid to tweak the wing too much. She has a paper towel under the wing and wrapped in a towel sitting next to me on the desk now.
I have blu-kote on hand.
What do I need to do to help her have a chance to survive? All hawk attacks have ended in death from the attack or we have needed to help as the bird was too far to save.
Thank you for any help

I've cleaned the wound as best as I can with water, sprayed with blu-kote, stuck some electrolytes in her water and had her drink so and now she's sitting in the laundry sink for a while. I'll set her up in the hut under the poop board where she sleeps after I get some clean pine straw in there and close her in that area on her own.
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Sounds like you've done what you can for now. She is most likely in shock so keep her warm and quiet. Did you rinse out her wounds with saline? soap and water.
How deep is the wound? Main thing now is making sure to keep the wound clean and hope infection doesn't set in. Not sure but if mine I might want to put her on an antibiotic. But these birds are amazing how they can survive such things.
She reminds me so much of my Blue Runner. THEY ARE SO SPECIAL
 

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