Help! Duck health emergency question

[Miss Lydia]

Bathing In soapy water removes the oils that are important in keeping their feathers water proofed. Have you cleaned out the cooped since your duck died? It looks like she has a case of bumble foot. I’d treat that right away. I believe @casportpony said not to use Vaseline in or around this area because it is petroleum based. And can harbor bacteria. Can you please get a better view of that place on her foot that looks like bumble?

 

[Ukeeducks]

Worse case scenario to me is somehow the two are related somehow.

The skin color and discharge around the vent are telling me she had a major infection, but it's impossible to know if the source of the infection was in the reproductive tract or the intestines just from looking at the pictures. If in the intestines, the chance of it being contagious is greater than if in the reproductive tract.

When you processed the drakes, did you find any abnormalities?

Drakes were perfectly healthy, just seems to be the females, if this duck has an infection also what can we do for her?

 

[casportpony]

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We have just bathed her in soapy warm water, toweled her off, and sprinkled some diatomaceous earth on her as was recommended to do incase it’s any sort of bug. We gave her a good once over and she has some white stuff around her vent and a cut on the one foot she was limping on. It stressed her out so we want to be careful not to stress her too much more, we put her in her coop rather than the pen and put the low heat lamp on with fresh ground, food, water. It was also recommended to keep her on clean straw and out of the pool for a few days so might bring her in to the greenhouse where it’s very dry and sheltered. We also heard to maybe put vasoline on her vent?
I’ll take pics of the pen and coop, the male is very healthy and seems totally fine.

Her vent in that picture looks okay to me. The white stuff you're seeing is urates, and it could just mean she is a little dehydrated.

Her feather coat is worrisome. If mine i would treat with permethrin spray for mites and lice, not DE. I say not DE because I tried it and it had zero effect on my birds.

IMO, the wound on the foot should be treated or it could become life threatening. If mine I would clean it really well, and I would start by letting her soak in a tub of warm water. After a good soak I would clean it with saline and chlorhexidine or saline and betadine. if no evidence of a kernel of pus I would apply Neosporin and wrap it, repeat soaking and wraps every one to three days until healed. If evidence of pus, treatment would be different. Let us know if you see pus.

 

[Ukeeducks]

So sorry for your loss
She could have been over-mated.
Any possibility that they got into something poisonous?

Yes I am worried about over-mating, it didn’t seem like it was that bad it was mostly the males just being aggressive toward each other, what issues would that cause if it was the case? An infection?

 

[casportpony]

Drakes were perfectly healthy, just seems to be the females, if this duck has an infection also what can we do for her?

Can you post a picture of her poop?

 

[Ukeeducks]

Her vent in that picture looks okay to me. The white stuff you're seeing is urates, and it could just mean she is a little dehydrated.

Her feather coat is worrisome. If mine i would treat with permethrin spray for mites and lice, not DE. I say not DE because I tried it and it had zero effect on my birds.

IMO, the wound on the foot should be treated or it could become life threatening. If mine I would clean it really well, and I would start by letting her soak in a tub of warm water. After a good soak I would clean it with saline and chlorhexidine or saline and betadine. if no evidence of a kernel of pus I would apply Neosporin and wrap it, repeat soaking and wraps every one to three days until healed. If evidence of pus, treatment would be different. Let us know if you see pus.

Ok thanks so much, Im not sure we can get the permethrin here but will check maybe the pharmacy has it otherwise will have to order on amazon. I’ll treat her wound as you suggested, it will stress her out but needs to be done

 

[Ukeeducks]

Can you post a picture of her poop?

Hard to tell which was hers or the males but think this was hers, wasn’t sure if the white was a concern I had researched that a bit but not found much

 

[casportpony]

Ok thanks so much, Im not sure we can get the permethrin here but will check maybe the pharmacy has it otherwise will have to order on amazon. I’ll treat her wound as you suggested, it will stress her out but needs to be done

If you are in US, most feed stores sell permethrin spray and powder. It is approved to use in poultry and has zero day egg withdrawal.

 

[casportpony]

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Hard to tell which was hers or the males but think this was hers, wasn’t sure if the white was a concern I had researched that a bit but not found much

that looks 100% normal to me.

 

[Ukeeducks]

If you are in US, most feed stores sell permethrin spray and powder. It is approved to use in poultry and has zero day egg withdrawal.

We are in Canada in a very small town that doesn’t have farming stores, only a grocery store and one small garden shop in the next town. there are stores an hour or two away that might have it but even then not sure, I can call around