Help, not sure what else I can do to help my severly injured ducks! :(

[pirtykitty]

Can you clean them and then put some honey on the wounds???? I think honey will stop the bleeding and helps keep things out..

 

[dieselgrl48]

So sorry about your ducks.Hope they make it.I have had a couple of severe injurie's myself.One due to a dog.Keep them warm to avoid futher shock.I have never put antibiotic's in water with such injurie's as most time's they just are not that helpful and usualy the bird's aren't eating or drinking enough after such trauma to really help the main issue at hand. Just keep the wound's clean with an initial cleaning with a good antibiotic wash and gently pat as dry as possible or betadine solution.I always try to use the Spray antibiotics after cleaning with fresh wound's.It's less traumatizing to the bird and allow's some air to get to the wound's.I generaly don't add ointment's to severe wound's until they heal some and get a little scar tissue on them and then the ointment will protect it and soften the scab's.Summer month's are worst for bad wound's that attract flies then.... well maggot's.I have actualy given a duck penecillin shot a couple of times.One with the dog attack and another a turtle attack.It's a small dosage and We didn't find that hard to give with a little instruction from our local mill.We kept a bottle in fridge at all time's and syringe's after being here for a few year's.Please update us and Huggzzzzzz for your duck's hope they make it.

 

[pirtykitty]

How are the ducks doing????? are they eating yet. were you able to get them cleaned up and bleeding stopped

 

[LuvLexi]

Sorry for the long delay on the reply! I have been busy going back and forth from Thornton to Boulder, half an hour drive each way, because I decided to take the ducks to the only vet that would see them out of the 50+ vets I called that wouldn't see them! THANK THE LORD I DID! One of the ducks crop & esophagus was torn and wrapped half way around his neck! They had to perform surgery on him. His neck had been torn all the way through the skin almost 75% of the way around his neck which I was unaware of because I couldn't see it under the feathers.

Luckily I was able to finance the vet bill however that will cost us $150 a month for the next 6 months which sucks

I hope our ducks feel loved lol! But we just couldn't have one without the other! They are 100% connected and inseparable! They had 3 nurses in tears when they rejoined them after the cleanings and they saw how much they loved each other! We had to save the one who needed surgery, Donald the duck that is!

Mickey had one wound sewed up and Donald had his neck sutured back together which they vet said was really hard because of how jagged the cut was. Mickey should be good however Donald isnt quite out of the blue yet

He seems to be doing well but we have to make sure the surgery took with the esophagus and the crop and make sure he is actually getting food and that the surgery took. We also have to watch and make sure the skin on his neck stays alive, if the skin dies off he wont make it!

Both seem to be eating and drinking just fine! If you would please say a prayer for my boys I would greatly appreciate it! I will be watching over them in a tub they will be in in our garage for the next 7-10 days just to be safe!

Thanks everyone for your concerns and advice! I will keep you updated on their status!











Other pics taken of the wounds and a few pictures taken after surgery and suturing:

 

[katharinad]

I'm so glad you went, because they may have died due to infection etc. I hope they will pull through fine. Now your next job is to make your setup as safe as possible. I know there is only so much you can do. I dread the moment something may happen to my ducks. They are safe in the duck house, but not in the free ranging area. It is fenced, but still predators can get in if they want. This morning we woke up to the coyotes howling, and they were darn close. I've noticed that the ducks kept very quiet in the duck house. I guess they knew something bad was out there.

 

[LuvLexi]

Yeah! Im glad I did too! There was a lot of infection in the torn tissue the vet said! We are going to put up a chain link fence around their house and dig 6 inches to 1 foot into the ground to set the fencing into and put some more chain link fencing over the top! Until that is done they will be staying in our garage where it is all closed off! Thats scary though having coyotes so close!

 

[katharinad]

We have lots of predators out here. We are 10 miles away from the nearest town and have only two neighbors in the valley. Each one of them being a quarter mile apart. Nothing but forest land around us for miles to go. Yeldwin just purchased several thousands of areas around us to keep as a wild life preserve. I've heard from the BLM office that Yeldwin is thinking about buying us and our neighbors out. We will not sell that is for sure. We have 3 packs of coyotes around us. Plus we have great horned owls living in our large ponderosa pine trees. Racoons and skunks come by all the time. Even had a mink show up 3 years ago. We had a mountain lion crossing the road in front of our car about a mile from us. Same area we had a bear crossing two years ago. So for us it is not a question of if, but rather when. It will happen, but that is the price for being out here. The good news is that we have a reservoir next to us, which is full of waterfowl. It may be easier to catch something there, since there are way more birds. Locking up ours at night is the key.

Get hardware cloth for your setup so raccoons cannot reach through and rib someones head off. You may not need a roof, if you use electric wires. The roof can be a pain with falling leaves or pine needles. You may not even need to dig deep, if you cover the hardware cloth with concrete papers around the fence.

 

[pirtykitty]

You need HARDWARE CLOTH on all sides top and bottom.. racoons and other predators can reach through chain link.. racoons can climb it too.. also need several feet of hardware cloth barried in L shape around pen to keep them from diggin under... hopefully someone else can explain better than me..
fingers crossed and ya'll are in our prayers.. that the ducks make it

 

[desertdarlene]

I'm glad you saw a vet. I wish them a long life.

 

[gofasterstripe]

OMG!!
So sorry to hear about your babies, I hope they pull thru this ordeal.
Sending prayers your way