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We have an injured duck. She somehow got traumatic injury just above her left eye. It first appeared that she was losing a feather or two around here left eye a week ago Tuesday (when I first noticed something - oddly there was no blood that I could see, and it's dark when I let them out before work).
On Wednesday my husband sent me a picture and said "look at this". It was very noticeable, and getting inflamed around the eye. I said call the vet. He did, Thursday PM appt when the avian vet was in. OK, sounds good.
I let them out of their coop Thursday AM and it was HOLY CRAP! Blood on the side of her face, by her wing and her thigh. 4pm seems a long ways off.
We get her to the vet, and there's obviously an infection. She could barely open her eye. Obvious trauma above here eye (essentially a scratch). But it had gotten infected. He did a Fluorescein stain of the eye, and it was OK. So we are treating the area of the scratch and the eye 3 - 4 times a day with Ofloxican drops to clear up the infection.
She was and continues to eat and drink well. But the eye area was still very messy/pussy/crusty...and fresh blood at times
But three ducks (2 ducks/a drake) are also in with 1 rooster and 4 hens. They share a run, but have separate coops. Sunday morning we saw the rooster attack the injured duck. We have divided the run, so they are now separated. Hoping this would allow the duck no more problems and would show signs of healing. We felt we removed the cause of the re-injuring by being picked on the by rooster.
The "mystery" is, they are locked in their coop at night. When I let them (her) out in the morning, there is still fresh blood. I think it's bothering her, and she is scratching at it.
The infection appears to be subsiding. But it is hard to tell - the entire area is in rough shape. I really need to bring her in an clean up the wound site. She probably hasn't been able to open her left eye for days now.
I'd bring her back to the vet if necessary, but I think there must be a way to get this under control so she can heal. I'll spend the money if it's needed, but I need to be practical as well.
It's winter here in NH, so no swimming pool for them right now. They have a heated water bowl. She can dunk her head. I threatened my husband to let her use the bath tub
But how do I keep her from re-injuring herself? Cone of shame? Any ideas? Anyone think the drake could be the problem? I've only seen him grab the back of the neck when, well, you know ;-)
We have an injured duck. She somehow got traumatic injury just above her left eye. It first appeared that she was losing a feather or two around here left eye a week ago Tuesday (when I first noticed something - oddly there was no blood that I could see, and it's dark when I let them out before work).
On Wednesday my husband sent me a picture and said "look at this". It was very noticeable, and getting inflamed around the eye. I said call the vet. He did, Thursday PM appt when the avian vet was in. OK, sounds good.
I let them out of their coop Thursday AM and it was HOLY CRAP! Blood on the side of her face, by her wing and her thigh. 4pm seems a long ways off.
We get her to the vet, and there's obviously an infection. She could barely open her eye. Obvious trauma above here eye (essentially a scratch). But it had gotten infected. He did a Fluorescein stain of the eye, and it was OK. So we are treating the area of the scratch and the eye 3 - 4 times a day with Ofloxican drops to clear up the infection.
She was and continues to eat and drink well. But the eye area was still very messy/pussy/crusty...and fresh blood at times
But three ducks (2 ducks/a drake) are also in with 1 rooster and 4 hens. They share a run, but have separate coops. Sunday morning we saw the rooster attack the injured duck. We have divided the run, so they are now separated. Hoping this would allow the duck no more problems and would show signs of healing. We felt we removed the cause of the re-injuring by being picked on the by rooster.
The "mystery" is, they are locked in their coop at night. When I let them (her) out in the morning, there is still fresh blood. I think it's bothering her, and she is scratching at it.
The infection appears to be subsiding. But it is hard to tell - the entire area is in rough shape. I really need to bring her in an clean up the wound site. She probably hasn't been able to open her left eye for days now.
I'd bring her back to the vet if necessary, but I think there must be a way to get this under control so she can heal. I'll spend the money if it's needed, but I need to be practical as well.
It's winter here in NH, so no swimming pool for them right now. They have a heated water bowl. She can dunk her head. I threatened my husband to let her use the bath tub
But how do I keep her from re-injuring herself? Cone of shame? Any ideas? Anyone think the drake could be the problem? I've only seen him grab the back of the neck when, well, you know ;-)
