Need help with antibiotics/muscovy mask**More Pictures Added**

[NajmoNests]

Could this possibly be frostbite? Had a roo with frozen wattles, comb, etc. They swelled up when they defrosted, a painful condition. Hope your bird makes it.

 

[chickensioux]

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http://www.twincitypoultrysupplies.com/store/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=534

This is where I got baytril. I gave 1/2 tablet once a day for 6 days when the vet thought that my female mandarin might have an upper resp. infection. I already had the baytril and the vet ok'd it for the mandarin.

How did you administer it? Did you just put it in there drinking water? how much water to pill? and did the other birds drink it? it says not for breeding season and i have a mandarin hen that is currently setting on eggs, but i think she's done laying and just incubating now so i wonder if it will be ok....?

The tablets are small and so 1/2 tab is real small. I had quarantined her, in the first place, in a small dog crate. Catching her was fairly easy each day. I would poke the 1/2 tab down her throat. I like this method to be sure they get it. It's not easy but I knew she got it.

 

[K4zn4v3]

Here is a picture that I just went out and took. The first layer of skin is almost completley gone. The dark triangle that you can see is what hasnt fallen off yet. Does anybody know what this is.

 

[Bleenie]

Oh hun, that looks terrible! is it bigger than it was before? it looks swollen, even back up on the top behind the knob. It looks like the skin is stretching back there too.

If you can't afford a Vet, I would get him on some strong antibiotics right away and the Neosporin. Seperate him from the flock so no one picks at it too. I haven't a clue what it is unless it was frostbite that got out of control.

 

[K4zn4v3]

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Money is not the issue, finding one is the hard part. I have called just about every avian vet within 300 miles and none of them will treat ducks.

 

[KansasKid]

There needs to be an avian vet that specializes in WATERFOWL !!!!! instead of parrots (no offense to anyone)

 

[Bleenie]

You're not in WA are you?

I have a good farm vet here, he's no bird specialist but he's helped me out when i've been stumpped. He even had a pet Muscovy with angel wing that one of his customers gave to him, lol.

 

[K4zn4v3]

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No other side of the country, in PA. I actually just found a vet that I'm going to call tomorow. Their website says they treat ducks but I want to check to see if they have ever worked with muscovies. I dont want my duck to be their test rat.

 

[Bleenie]

A muscovies caruncles are just like a turkeys head, so maybe they've treated turkeys before? Even if they haven't seen Muscovies before, I think it's still worth it to have them check it out, it very well may be something like an abscess that they can lance and get all cleaned out for you. It's always best to get a Vet's opinion if you can.