Help! Drooling duck who was attacked unable to swallow

[Gooseypoo]

Thank you, everyone, for getting back to me so quickly!

I just went in to check on her and get some pictures and a video. She ate a bit of wetted pellets from her bowl and they looked like some might have gone down, but it was hard to tell. The drooling happens when she drinks, which you will see in the video.

I put in a small bowl of slurry made with her pellets (they eat flock raiser pellets), warm water and a bit of colloidal silver. She tried it twice and recoiled. Maybe because it is warm? I don't know.

I haven't given her a once-over because touching the wounds hurts her, but I see the importance of getting a better look so I will set aside my empathy and take a closer look. In the meantime, here's what I have so far (the last pic is everything she's pooped since yesterday afternoon/evening):

Video:

 

[Miss Lydia]

And the water is running out of her bill? might it be coming out of a wound underneath her bill? Be sure to look under her bill also. Poor baby.

 

[chickens really]

Swelling can cause them to not be able to swallow. A Vet is possibly needed.

 

[casportpony]

Thank you, everyone, for getting back to me so quickly!

I just went in to check on her and get some pictures and a video. She ate a bit of wetted pellets from her bowl and they looked like some might have gone down, but it was hard to tell. The drooling happens when she drinks, which you will see in the video.

I put in a small bowl of slurry made with her pellets (they eat flock raiser pellets), warm water and a bit of colloidal silver. She tried it twice and recoiled. Maybe because it is warm? I don't know.

I haven't given her a once-over because touching the wounds hurts her, but I see the importance of getting a better look so I will set aside my empathy and take a closer look. In the meantime, here's what I have so far (the last pic is everything she's pooped since yesterday afternoon/evening):

Video:

She looks better that I thought she would. Do you have a good scale of a bathroom scale?

 

[Gooseypoo]

I don't have a bathroom scale that works, unfortunately.

The water seems to just run out of her beak when she drinks, but it is viscous and definitely drooly. I had someone hold her while I examined her and she didn't have any obvious holes. Even those spots you see on her head and neck, upon closer inspection didn't look too bad. They were matted with plasma so I had to rub at them with warm wet cotton balls (poor baby, it took two of us because she wouldn't sit still) but when I got them loosened up and pried into them there wasn't much to see.

We opted not to pluck the feathers--for now--because it is mid winter here and very cold, even in our house. So I wiped them down again with colloidal silver for now. Later on when they've had a chance to dry I'm planning on putting some gentian violet on them.

I looked into her mouth and didn't see anything unusual (except I learned the inside of a duck's mouth looks like something from an alien movie!) and didn't feel anything around her crop.

I took another video of her just after we washed her wounds

(I know how to film in landscape mode, I don't know why it came out like that). She is moving much better and the wet head seemed to prompt her to want to take a bath, which she did in the shavings. She even used her head to get at her oil gland, which is better than yesterday. Maybe she's not in as bad a shape as I thought.

I'm still concerned about the drooling when she drinks though, and the difficulty swallowing. I will keep an eye on her and see if anything changes.

In the meantime, the 2 remaining ducks are going to stay inside overnight as it's too cold right now to go messing around in the barn (low double digits in the day and negative at night). Luckily the goose stall was easier to reinforce so I think they'll be alright. They were fine this morning.

 

[Wyorp Rock]

Poor sweetie! I don't know much about ducks at all, so will follow along to see how she does.

 

[Miss Lydia]

If her wounds aren’t serious she maybe just very sore. Just like your doing just keep an eye on her. Hopefully tomorrow will be even better! Keep an eye on any swelling around neck top to bottom

 

[WVduckchick]

Such a beautiful girl!

The poop looks awfully green.

 

[Gooseypoo]

Ok. I'm going to try putting her in the bath again when we bring the other two in this evening and see how she does. And I'll keep an eye out for any swelling. I'm glad she's not as bad off as I had originally feared.

Yeah, the poop is pretty green. Someone earlier said it is bile salts from not eating. Hopefully she will be able to start eating soon...

 

[Jpat]

We can get you through tube feeding VERY easily and cheaply if she needs it

Mine plain out refused to eat for awhile and all he needed was time and forced food packed with vitamins

She looks like an apsalute darling!


Oh and it looks like whatever it was bit her neck, i dunno if youve had your throat crushed before but it sucks and is painfull and hard to eat ide imagine its swollen sore on the inside and hard to swallow