pekin duck attacked by dog

[Northern-MI-Neighborhood]

a neighbor's dog got into my chicken run the other day and it killed all of my chickens - which was about 5 birds total. Also, I had two pekin ducks in the run about 7 weeks old or so. They were feathered out and nearly grown. One survived with just a scratch or two. The other ducky has a nasty laseration on it's bag kind of between and under it's wings.

It also appeared to have its leg broken....or maybe it's its wing. It's having trouble walking, so it's using its wing to help prop itself up. This happened yesterday. So I put it in the dry tub so I could monitor it. It couldn't walk, so I put its food and water in front of it. By last night, it was eating and drinking. It survived the night, so my wife, who works at a vet clinic, picked up some Amoxicillin for it, which I mixed into some water and dosed per the vet. Her boss also gave her some Vet Wrap...which is Coband, for us to wrap its leg up. Which we did. We put its food and water in front of it. I'm going to check on it tomorrow, which will be 2 days since it was attacked.

Not being able to walk or get into the kiddie pool, it's vent is getting stained and kinda gross, as I had it laying on a towel most of today and yesterday. It's now been on a pile of pine chip bedding inside a tote laying on it's side with easy access to food and it's water with the Amoxacillin the vet gave us.

Is there anything else I can do? The vet doesn't treat ducks, but was nice enough to give my wife the antibiotics and Coband vet wrap. I tried cleaning between and under its wing with saline and some peroxide, but didn't want to keep using peroxide on it. I've been cleaning the wound with salt water, but it DOES NOT want me messing with it too much. It HAS to hurt. And it hurts to walk.

I can't debride the wound at this point....and there's no dead tissue. It may have just had a bunch of feathers ripped out with a few teeth marks.

I'll try to get some photos today. What else can I do? How can I tell if it's a leg that's broken, or it's leg AND wing?

 

[ruthhope]

a neighbor's dog got into my chicken run the other day and it killed all of my chickens - which was about 5 birds total. Also, I had two pekin ducks in the run about 7 weeks old or so. They were feathered out and nearly grown. One survived with just a scratch or two. The other ducky has a nasty laseration on it's bag kind of between and under it's wings.

It also appeared to have its leg broken....or maybe it's its wing. It's having trouble walking, so it's using its wing to help prop itself up. This happened yesterday. So I put it in the dry tub so I could monitor it. It couldn't walk, so I put its food and water in front of it. By last night, it was eating and drinking. It survived the night, so my wife, who works at a vet clinic, picked up some Amoxicillin for it, which I mixed into some water and dosed per the vet. Her boss also gave her some Vet Wrap...which is Coband, for us to wrap its leg up. Which we did. We put its food and water in front of it. I'm going to check on it tomorrow, which will be 2 days since it was attacked.

Not being able to walk or get into the kiddie pool, it's vent is getting stained and kinda gross, as I had it laying on a towel most of today and yesterday. It's now been on a pile of pine chip bedding inside a tote laying on it's side with easy access to food and it's water with the Amoxacillin the vet gave us.

Is there anything else I can do? The vet doesn't treat ducks, but was nice enough to give my wife the antibiotics and Coband vet wrap. I tried cleaning between and under its wing with saline and some peroxide, but didn't want to keep using peroxide on it. I've been cleaning the wound with salt water, but it DOES NOT want me messing with it too much. It HAS to hurt. And it hurts to walk.

I can't debride the wound at this point....and there's no dead tissue. It may have just had a bunch of feathers ripped out with a few teeth marks.

I'll try to get some photos today. What else can I do? How can I tell if it's a leg that's broken, or it's leg AND wing?

I have some suggestions that I have used with success. Wrap the ducks whole body over the wound dressing, and it's wings. Then put the duck in a small infant tee shirt. You can remove every day to check the wound and flush with water if necessary. Wash the ducks vent area in a washing up bowl or similar sized container. I hold the duck with one arm against my body, and clean with the other hand.

I also have a ducky wheelchair that I use for leg problems. Its essentially a sling across a frame with 2 holes for the legs and a third for poo to drop down. Stand it on a puppy pad to soak any fluid. I'll look for a photo on my laptop

Sitting on a sling with the legs hanging down below, is best for a broken leg so the duck doesn't get compression wounds (bed sores) from sitting on the leg and the weight of the leg helps to keep the leg straight. If the leg fracture is mis shapen. You will need to fashion a splint by padding a flat wooden tongue depressor or something similar. The duck may be agitated, but it's important the leg is pulled straight and then strapped to the padded splint with vetwrap or similar

A neighbor's husky dog got into my son's back garden last year and savaged three of his ducks. I cleaned up their skin flaps and puncture wounds by holding the ducks under the tap in my bathroom sink. Each duck relaxed in the water. I sprayed the wounds with gentian violet (Blue Kote) but iodine (Betadine) spray is good too. Vetericyn spray is a third possibility.

Also, I use oral rehydration solution not plain drinking water for sick and injured ducks. When they are recovering, I add Rooster Booster Poultry Cell to their drinking water to give extra vitamins and minerals to aid recovery