Oh no! I’m sorry, but I’m glad you were there before anything else happend! The hawk will be back, but you might be lucky, anytime a hawk circles our area, because we’re surrounded by crows nests, the crows go after them! Thanks to the noise that warns my girls and I run with them to whatever spot they try and find saftey in just to make sure they’re all right. Then after we here nothing we all run back to the chicken run, they get some scratch and are locked in for another 3 days before we let them out for their daily free ranging (supervised for at least a week however I always supervise since I’m an anxious mom and I like to spend time with my girls) if you have a covered run you should be safe leaving them in there, however if not I recommend offering lots of cover options for them to duck under even if it is just some pallets on cinderblocks in the center of the run. When the truck was in the yard, the girls would spend lots of time under that eating the grass, dust bathing and finding bugs all under that perfect low shaded area. They loved it! Of course this wasn’t kept in their run only in the yard for obvious reasons. To treat that pair, isolate them. I find that ducks get the worst of hawk injury’s since they’re slower and don’t have a beak to protect themselves. Keep watching that pair in isolation (isolated together for company unless something goes wrong) until the chest injury heals. Internal injury’s might also be present but if anything let’s hope they aren’t bad. That eye however, I’m not sure what to say. It looks very bad. Maybe let a vet look at it to see what they say- they might want it removed if it gets infected. I hope I could help, and I hope your ducks heal well ❤ (edit: I see you can’t visit a vet, I would just monitor him until it starts to heal. Maybe find a vet that can look at pictures on here?)
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