Help duckling has puncture wound in crop foods coming out of it

[AngelinaThePekin8]

I just found my youngest duckling has a pretty bad wound on her neck area the injury must've happened at least a day or two ago, or it could've happened today, not sure. I only noticed it because we just for a really bad hail storm and went to find out if any of the flock got hit.

I've been thinking its the guineas who caused Tiny and now Lexi's wounds. I will try getting pictures of Lexi's injury.

Tiny has been healing up fine, I've applying the prescription ointment and giving her the antibiotic as was suggested by the veterinarian. She has no redness or any apparent swelling in the sutured area hopefully she continues on that path and nothing bad happens to her.

 

[Miss Lydia]

I think I would make it so the Guineas and ducks are not together.

Good to hear Tiny's is healing so good.

Hopefully Lexi will heal fine too.

 

[AngelinaThePekin8]

I think I would make it so the Guineas and ducks are not together.

I think we're gonna be able to get our new coop back on its feet this week or something. I had a pen setup when they all hatched so if need be they could be put in it with their moms.

Good to hear Tiny's is healing so good.

Hopefully Lexi will heal fine too.

Thank you!

 

[AngelinaThePekin8]

Here's Lexi's injuries.

This is the back of her neck, the base of it.



This is near the crop area, it just seems a bit raw I guess? I will try getting better pictures soon, and I'm gonna try cleaning it with some saline and vetericyn.

 

[AngelinaThePekin8]

Here's Lexi's injuries.

This is the back of her neck, the base of it.
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This is near the crop area, it just seems a bit raw I guess? I will try getting better pictures soon, and I'm gonna try cleaning it with some saline and vetericyn.
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Lexi's neck isn't actually to bad I think. The most concerning thing for me is a bit of a bump (scab type of thing?) at the base of her neck, I don't really know what it is or how to describe it. I might try getting more pictures of it.
I have only put saline and vetericyn on it once but it seems like it might be fine it's own. I'm keeping a close eye on it and have been working on getting Lexi calm around me again.


Tiny Update

I've yet to call the vets office, so I'm still unsure of whether or not we'd have to take to them Tiny to get the sutures out. Or what.

Tiny has only 3 and a half tablets left of the Clavamox I've been doing what the prescription things say to do. Tiny still seems to be healing properly and gets to go outside once a day for however long I feel like being out there each time (which tends to be about a half hour) with me supervising as best I can. The sutures look kinda like their coming out or something, but no redness or swelling, there's normal looking skin in the sutured area and feather growth. Tiny is slowly getting more feathers in, no pin feathers on her wings yet but her siblings outside (the ones the same age as her) are nearly fully feathered out and look like adults practically. I think Tiny is possibly a day or so younger than them (I don't know if that would create such a difference), she's always been smaller than the other two big ducklings.

Tiny does play in the water outside when I take her out but I always make sure there is fresh clean water for her to have baths in and try to keep her from being wet to long. Her water dish inside is something she likes to try cleaning her self in and is generally successfull at getting herself wet and things near her.

I can't wait to see her back out full time with her siblings and mom and dad and possibly grandpa if my oldest Cayuga drake is not her dad and his son is instead.

We're also hopefully going to get the coop that's not been used yet back up this month (the coop is new to us and blew over last year before we could tie it down) it has a run attached so I think we could keep the guineas in there full time and let the chickens and ducks free range during the day. And get back into the routine putting them in the coop at night.

 

[AngelinaThePekin8]

Well, the day before yesterday Storm one of the younger ducklings like Lexi got a peck wound, I'm thinking it's one of my chicken hens and not really the guinea fowl the peck wound also happened when I was out with Tiny and had given some food to everyone I didn't see it happen.
Immediately after I noticed I caught Storm and Tried my best to debride it with Saline and Vetericyn. And have been doing it twice a day now.

Today, we took Tiny back to the vet to get her sutures out, and she had popped the middle suture at some point, so she has, what is labeled on the receipt as a staple in that spot, two more weeks of mostly being inside.

I feel so sad that she's not out with her siblings instead she's inside


These were taken hours before the vet, she had just come in from her supervised outside time, so she was a bit wet I cleaned the suture area with a little saline after coming in.

She had eaten a lot when outside, and doesn't know how to hold still for the camera.

From what it sounded like from the vet tech everything seems healthy and healing well, just the one suture, that popped or whatever wasn't healed up yet and that's why she got an $11 staple.

I was never told if she needs more of anything the receptionist did ask if she was out of her antibiotic but nothing was ever mentioned of it again. We still have some of the cream, so I used that and am going to until it runs out. I will probably not take her outside tomorrow, so the fresh staple has time to heal a little bit.


We did a walk in type of thing instead of a scheduled appointment, we brought her in I never got too see the vet or anything (like the first vet visit) we got her checked in and she was taken too the back, we weren't even told she was getting a staple until it was already done. My biggest issue is the little amount of information they give, I know they aren't waterfowl specialists and were busy today, maybe I'm blowing it out of proportion Idk.

This was long and I'm not sure if half of it was really needed to say but the way we were or weren't handled with the vet bothered me, I simply want to know what the vet thinks should be done to minimize risk of reinjury and infection, and whatever the reason that's not happened and it frustrated me a little.

Sorry about the rant, Tiny is doing really well though hopefully the staple heals up really fast! I don't want Tiny missing out on growing up with her siblings.

 

[Clucktown]

How is Tiny? Was she able to rejoin her flockmates outside?

 

[AngelinaThePekin8]

How is Tiny? Was she able to rejoin her flockmates outside?

I've been letting her stay outside during the day, at night I bring her in. Its been 11 days now I think since she for her sutures removed and a stitch put back in, either tomorrow or on 22nd she'll stay inside for the whole day maybe a quick outside trip once, before the vet visit so the area isn't possibly getting super dirty before the stich is removed.

I can't find the stich these last few days though, hopefully it's just the feathers hiding it, and nothing went wrong again.
Other then the stich thing Tiny seems really healthy, and might be a boy, we still can't tell just yet hopefully Tiny is a she if she isn't then we'd have 4 drakes 2 is already a handful during certain times of the year.

I'm gonna figure out when Tiny will get her stich removed and hope Tiny will be outside full time again before the end of next week or something.

 

[Clucktown]

I've been letting her stay outside during the day, at night I bring her in. Its been 11 days now I think since she for her sutures removed and a stitch put back in, either tomorrow or on 22nd she'll stay inside for the whole day maybe a quick outside trip once, before the vet visit so the area isn't possibly getting super dirty before the stich is removed.

I can't find the stich these last few days though, hopefully it's just the feathers hiding it, and nothing went wrong again.
Other then the stich thing Tiny seems really healthy, and might be a boy, we still can't tell just yet hopefully Tiny is a she if she isn't then we'd have 4 drakes 2 is already a handful during certain times of the year.

I'm gonna figure out when Tiny will get her stich removed and hope Tiny will be outside full time again before the end of next week or something.

That's great news! Sounds like her staple fell out. Hopefully, Storm and Lexi have recovered as well.

 

[AngelinaThePekin8]

That's great news! Sounds like her staple fell out. Hopefully, Storm and Lexi have recovered as well.

Storm and Lexi are doing really well, I haven't felt Lexi's neck in a few days but Storm seems all healed up and is QUACKING like a blue swedish duck!

Lexi is fat and doesn't know when to much food is just to much, on some days Lexi struggles to walk properly with the extra weight of all the food she eats that morning. Without seperating her from the rest of flock before her breakfast which is possible, it'd be hard to prevent that kinda thing from happening.


Tiny is outside today, I think tomorrow I will keep her in so she will be ready the day after that to go to the vets office and get her stich removed if it's not already fallen out or something, Im not even sure if they wanted us to bring her back in for that either. I need to call and find out.


I took some pictures of Tiny and the others today

She grouped up with Storm and Lexi when I first let her out, she kind of floats between Lexi and Storm, and hangs out lots with her siblings (Shiny and Dawn) the same age as her.

Tiny, eating some loose feed I threw for the chickens. Her sister and brother Shiny and Dawn were in front of her.

I've been putting the silver questions cream on Tiny still, I don't know if it actually gets where it's intended because of all the feather growth Tiny has got in the stich area.