My Duck was attacked- triage & need advice

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I had given Amiga an update but here is one for everyone.... on 7/16 I had my baby a month early. She was very tiny. I had a successful VBAC but hemorrhaged. My doctor was amazing and I was eventually O.K. and became anemic due to blood loss. My baby spent her first month of life in NICU. During that time Mellow healed too. in August after my baby came home and a week after her release from the hospital we had to move. I had to get rid of my entire flock of birds including my two ducks. I gave them to a friend of mine and to this day Mellow is healthy and completely fine. She has had little ducklings and I hear she's been a good Mommy. We moved a few states away and that was such a hard move but it was necessary. We moved to the suburbs and I couldn't have feathered friends because of the HOA. This summer I moved a few hours away and I'm in a rural setting again. It took all these months to get the land ready to handle chicks and ducks again safely. The difference here is that I have three large ponds and the ability to do whatever to the land with a running tractor (yay- hubby has had to work on it quite a bit) so we have been able to build a sturdy two story coop (bottom for ducks and top for chickens) and a movable yard. If I get any pics of Mellow I will post them I have 5 ducklings and 6 chicks right now and I'm so excited to have a flock again. In the future I'd like to have pea fowl perhaps but we will see.... As for my baby.... she is 2 now and very healthy and into everything. She loves living in the country as do all my children. We now only have our youngest four living in the nest

 

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Mellow the duck was attacked. Marsh her drake & she were placed in a bathtub of warm water with baking soda. The tub turned dark pink/ red from blood. We then drained the tub and cleaned it out with warm water. We tried to find the source of her blood. She was oozing blood from a breast puncture wound of the left side.

We got clean a rag of hydrogen perixide and cleaned as much as possible then got some metal forcep type thingys ( idk my hubby uses it in med school- snippy things?) and put cotton balks with some burning alcohol into the gush of blood to quickly stop the bleeding. It worked after 3 cotton fire balls.

Then we continued to clean up the remaining. Blood off surrounding area to stitch it up. Used a curved disinfected needle. Put triple antibiotic over the sewed wounded area Wrapped her in a warm clean blanket and dried her off. Mate went back outside. We put a thick blanket & town lining the bottom of the tub and safety pinned a new clean wrapped towel around her. She seems to want to pick at her wound so we pinned that towel around her to keep her from doing that.

We placed a small bowl of eletrolyte vitamin water for birds in front of her & rolled oats. She seems calm eating drinking fine and ok.

Question how often do we check on her? When she soils how best to clean her? I have lots of towels to use & can wash the others in a sanitizing wash with detergent and bleach. But how often do we change it out?

I cannot afford to buy her an oral antibiotic right now. I used minced garlic when my chickens had gotten fowl pox a ling time ago. . Would that help? Should i feed her some plain yogurt as a probiotic tomorrow?

When can she bathe in water? Should i just keep her in her hospital bathtub for like a week or two? We dont mind as we have 2 other bathrooms. It just seems easier for her to be kept clean and safe for now.

Corn starch can work well to stop bleeding Apple cider vinegar in the water is also good immune support like the garlic. Also vetwrap is great for wrapping wounds.