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My 7 week old duck, Dragon, has been injured
by a hawk. Any tips on how to care for an injured duck? Anything to make him more comfortable or happier? He also has a lot of tiny but densely packed fly eggs deep in his feathers, any tips for that? They are stuck tight and I don‘t want to hurt him more.
The vet said he has a good chance, but we have to get the eggs off and keep infection away. He has had ivermectin, baytril/enrofloxacin, and a pain/inflammation shot from the vet. He’s able to stand and drink some water, but isn’t moving much. And I can’t get him to eat any plantain.
Any help?
Update 6/24 : He’s still very tired sometimes falls asleep standing up and he twice went limp while wrapped loosely and gave me a big scare but turned out to be exhausted, He was making a kind of whistle that I believe was a wheeze, and needed five seconds of xopenex of 1.25. He’s also drinking normally, but isn’t eating duck feed. He’s eating a little of the plantain I gave him, which I chopped up into little pieces and put in his water, but I showed the rest of the flock that he was okay and alive, and he and the flock had a happy squawking contest. One of the females kept snapping at him, though he was only separated for a day, but she stopped after about half an hour, and I sprayed permethrin on him because he got very bad fly eggs, and he seems MUCH better. And while he’s still injured, he’s acting normally, not like the droopy, tired, barley struggling duck he was a few minutes after the hawk attack
The vet said he has a good chance, but we have to get the eggs off and keep infection away. He has had ivermectin, baytril/enrofloxacin, and a pain/inflammation shot from the vet. He’s able to stand and drink some water, but isn’t moving much. And I can’t get him to eat any plantain.
Any help?
Update 6/24 : He’s still very tired sometimes falls asleep standing up and he twice went limp while wrapped loosely and gave me a big scare but turned out to be exhausted, He was making a kind of whistle that I believe was a wheeze, and needed five seconds of xopenex of 1.25. He’s also drinking normally, but isn’t eating duck feed. He’s eating a little of the plantain I gave him, which I chopped up into little pieces and put in his water, but I showed the rest of the flock that he was okay and alive, and he and the flock had a happy squawking contest. One of the females kept snapping at him, though he was only separated for a day, but she stopped after about half an hour, and I sprayed permethrin on him because he got very bad fly eggs, and he seems MUCH better. And while he’s still injured, he’s acting normally, not like the droopy, tired, barley struggling duck he was a few minutes after the hawk attack
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