Help!! Ive found a Duck with severe injury to his upper leg and up under his wing! There maggots! Omg!

[FairygodmotherINC]

Okay so i found a duck last night in my yard, with a severe injury to his upper leg and a horrific deep wound under his wing also. I knew he was walking funny when I saw him but at first I just thought he got hung up in a tree or a fence and maybe pulled something out of place trying to free himself, UNTIL......
I watched him a little closer, then i started to noticed it was MUCH more then that, i saw the wet matted dirty lookin feathers at the top of his leg and all under his one wing. I decided I needed to help this little quacker out somehow!
And that's when she comedy started... my fat ass running after a damn duck lookin like I done lost my mind in 90° blistering southern heat! For damn near 2 hours! I swear my dogs were laughing at my because they Damn sure ain't offer any assistance as they all 3 sit side by side on the back porch enjoying the hippohuman try to catch the quicker!
After a good 1½ to 2 hours, alot of very mean name calling to the injured duck and much more very bad language due to his wonderful avoidance techniques and them ninja duck moves he had to be a half ass handicapped duck I FINALLY FINALLY caught him! We were not friends at this point , sorry not sorry Mr. Duck i was trying to help you, I THOUGHT I WAS GOING TO HAVE A HEAT STROKE! you'll thank me later buddy!
I was able to examine him finally. I can side my entire hand almost into the wound under his wing and there's LOTSSSS of maggots all-inside of his wound! I got betodine and mixed with warm bottled water so it would be as sterile as possible then we flushed and flushed and flushed more then we rinsed with saline and i tried to flush all those nasty maggots out for him the best I could. I dried him as well as possible before I used an entire tube of antibiotic ointment (like the off brand neosporin) and I saturated him as good as I could! I put some pine shavings in a small/medium sized dog kennel and placed him in my shed with a 2 gal bucket of fresh water. So he'd be safe, warm, calm as possible, plus its fairly dark in there but idk hope that will help him! He hasn't moved much at all when I checked him this morning! And i really think he may need to see a vet asap its that bad! unfortionately I CAN NOT afford a vet bill at all . I don't want him to die though!
I've called all my neighbors but noone is claiming ownership of him within over a mile radius of my home!
I don't know what else to do really!
Thanks for reading this and please help me help this little guy! Any help is a truly a blessing and is greatly appreciated!
Blessings
Me and the Quacker

 

[nuthatched]

Is there any sanctuaries or wildlife rehab centers?

 

[alinas2010]

Welcome to the site. Sorry to hear about your newly found duck. How is he now? It is really kind of you to try to help it. Are you sure this is a domestic duck? Can you post a picture of it and the injuries? If he is wild you will need to find someone qualified to take care of him.

Fly strike can be extremely difficult to overcome. You’ll have to keep checking the wound for eggs that hatch. I’d check every few hours. Sounds like you’re doing all you can to try to help. I don’t have ducks, but wound care is pretty much typical; keep the wound clean, keep covered in triple antibiotic ointment (w/out pain relief), and encourage eating/drinking. Try to get him to drink some electrolyte water. Do you have ducks or other poultry? I’ll tag some duck people for more anymore specific care tips.

@Jenbirdee @ruthhope anything else?

 

[Turd bird]

Okay so i found a duck last night in my yard, with a severe injury to his upper leg and a horrific deep wound under his wing also. I knew he was walking funny when I saw him but at first I just thought he got hung up in a tree or a fence and maybe pulled something out of place trying to free himself, UNTIL......
I watched him a little closer, then i started to noticed it was MUCH more then that, i saw the wet matted dirty lookin feathers at the top of his leg and all under his one wing. I decided I needed to help this little quacker out somehow!
And that's when she comedy started... my fat ass running after a damn duck lookin like I done lost my mind in 90° blistering southern heat! For damn near 2 hours! I swear my dogs were laughing at my because they Damn sure ain't offer any assistance as they all 3 sit side by side on the back porch enjoying the hippohuman try to catch the quicker!
After a good 1½ to 2 hours, alot of very mean name calling to the injured duck and much more very bad language due to his wonderful avoidance techniques and them ninja duck moves he had to be a half ass handicapped duck I FINALLY FINALLY caught him! We were not friends at this point , sorry not sorry Mr. Duck i was trying to help you, I THOUGHT I WAS GOING TO HAVE A HEAT STROKE! you'll thank me later buddy!
I was able to examine him finally. I can side my entire hand almost into the wound under his wing and there's LOTSSSS of maggots all-inside of his wound! I got betodine and mixed with warm bottled water so it would be as sterile as possible then we flushed and flushed and flushed more then we rinsed with saline and i tried to flush all those nasty maggots out for him the best I could. I dried him as well as possible before I used an entire tube of antibiotic ointment (like the off brand neosporin) and I saturated him as good as I could! I put some pine shavings in a small/medium sized dog kennel and placed him in my shed with a 2 gal bucket of fresh water. So he'd be safe, warm, calm as possible, plus its fairly dark in there but idk hope that will help him! He hasn't moved much at all when I checked him this morning! And i really think he may need to see a vet asap its that bad! unfortionately I CAN NOT afford a vet bill at all . I don't want him to die though!
I've called all my neighbors but noone is claiming ownership of him within over a mile radius of my home!
I don't know what else to do really!
Thanks for reading this and please help me help this little guy! Any help is a truly a blessing and is greatly appreciated!
Blessings
Me and the Quacker

hope you find some way to help him

 

[ruthhope]

Ok, let's continue where you left off @FairygodmotherINC You are doing great.

1. Maggots are not always a bad thing. Maggots will eat pus and sloughed tissue that needs to come off. But now you are caring for Quacker, its right to wash them off. Do not hesitate to wash a dirty wound under a tap. Your tap water is cleaner than the wound and you likely have better water pressure than dropping bottled water under gravity.
2. Leaving the wound open, to drain and not covering it with a dressing is also good at this time. You can consider putting a dressing on it when it is healing although I often leave healing wounds open as ducks don't like dressings.

3. Keeping Quacker in a box with clean bedding in a quiet, adequately warm, place is fine and you can cover the box with an old cloth or towel to reduce the light to keep the duck calm. I bring them into my bathroom which I turn into a ducky emergancy room and ward when I have rescued sick or injured ducks.

4. Now you need hydration, nutrition, continued wound hygiene, and a systemic not topical antibiotic. 4.1 Can you get oral rehydration solution from the pharmacy shelves in your local supermarket? Flavor and color free Pedialyte is best (my local Walnart has that) but get grape if your supermarket only has flavored Pedialyte. 4.2 if your duck is not eating pellets, try making watery porridge with the pellets and see if Quacker will drink that. If not try offering meal worms or soft scrambled egg in small quantities.

4.3 Wash the wound twice a day, until you are sure all the maggots are out. You can drop back to once a day if there is no pus discharging.

4.4 If you cannot afford a vet, then you have to order oral antibiotic on line from allbirdproducts.com. Even paying for an expedited delivery, it takes about 5 days to arrive (as I rescue ducks, I keep a supply in my duck first aid kit.) Buy Baytril 10% solution. It comes with an oral syringe to give the medication. The dose is 10mg/kg weight twice a day initially and reduce to once a day if the duck is improving after 2 days. I tend to assume a duck is 7lbs and give a 5mg or 0.5ml dose for most ducks but increase that for muscovy drakes and jumbo pekins, and reduce it for call ducks. Keep dosing for 7 to 10 days depending on the duck's condition.

Good luck with Quacker. Ducks can recover from horrific wounds with care. Keep us posted on developments

 

[Jenbirdee]

Great advice from the others and yes please post pictures so we can see if it’s a domestic or wild duck