Pompom Duck has her eyes infected

[WannaBeHillBilly]

Since straw is no longer an option (bought a farmer out the other day myself) you can use wood shavings. They work well. Also, when you use Terramicin if you pull down on the lower eyelid and lay a ribbon of ointment in there, then slowly release the eyelid and close the eye & open the eye a few times, then you know the ointment got where it needs to be. I would not let her swim for a couple hours if at all during days of treatment.
Hope all your feathered friends are better soon!

Anything »Slowly« is not going to work with that duck!

What i usually do is to thoroughly wash my hands with hot water and soap, grab the duck, push her down into my lap, squeeze a blob of Terramycin on the second-finger of my right hand, snatch her head with my left hand, pull down her eye-lid with the index-finger of my right and apply the creme. All in less than a second, otherwise sh knots a pretzel into her neck and hides her head in there…

 

[HotLips]

Update on PomPom and Iris: Iris is back out on the pond with the other ducks. She still keeps her left eye closed and cannot see more than shadows there. But her right eye is almost back to normal, enabling her to live almost normal.
PomPom however - She couldn't find the door of the duck-house today.
She is back inside since 10am and mad as hell on me! When i tried apply the eye drops for the first time, she broke free and bit so hard in my ear that i was bleeding. Doing my best to medicate her, but i will stop at anf Thrift Store on my egg-delivery run today and ask for baby-swaddlers…

Oh my! My husband holds them while I torture them with meds. I've done it myself a few times but it sure is tricky. He holds the body but also holds their bill if needed.

 

[WannaBeHillBilly]

Oh my! My husband holds them while I torture them with meds. I've done it myself a few times but it sure is tricky. He holds the body but also holds their bill if needed.

Unfortunately, medicating the ducks is a one man job here. - Iris duck only needs ½ antibiotic tablet and eye ointment in the evening and she has resigned herself to her fate already. But Pompom puts up a vicious fight all the time.

 

[HotLips]

Anything »Slowly« is not going to work with that duck!

What i usually do is to thoroughly wash my hands with hot water and soap, grab the duck, push her down into my lap, squeeze a blob of Terramycin on the second-finger of my right hand, snatch her head with my left hand, pull down her eye-lid with the index-finger of my right and apply the creme. All in less than a second, otherwise sh knots a pretzel into her neck and hides her head in there…

Unfortunately, medicating the ducks is a one man job here. - Iris duck only needs ½ antibiotic tablet and eye ointment in the evening and she has resigned herself to her fate already. But Pompom puts up a vicious fight all the time.

I've had dogs like that. Sad thing is, the medicine fought against the hardest I was prescribed one time. Oh my gosh!!! That was the most awful stuff!!! You can't get it down fast enough to not taste it! YUK YUK YUK!!! I feel sorry for any animal that has to take it now.

Well, good luck. It's friends like Pompom that keep life interesting. You'll remember that duck long after it's gone. ❤

 

[WannaBeHillBilly]

Update on Iris and PomPom:
Iris successfully hid between her sisters this evening, if all ducks are looking at you with their right eye, you cannot identify the one duck with a bad left eye. So she avoided her antibiotic tablet and her eye-ointment today. I saw her later in the duck-run eating from the supper-bowl, so she is still alive and well.
Pompom Duck misbehaved the whole day, being loud and cranky and she wasn't eating. I had to use a slingshot to make her swallow that antibiotic pill today! And when outside she can barely see where she is going. I snuck up on her later in the afternoon and from two feet away i said »Hi PomPom!« - she scare-pooped right on the spot and squeeked. But couldn't find the direction away from me.

As said, both ducks ate well from the supper bowl which contained 1½ cups of cooked rice today, containing 1 gram of Cephalexin… Tomorrow will be the last dose of this antibiotic and then i will switch over to Amoxicilin.

 

[WannaBeHillBilly]

Outsmarted by DUX!

They must have planned this! This cannot be a coincidence!

Walked over to the duck house this morning, spreading breakfast on the patio stones as i do every morning and opened the door to the duck run. I did not even saw Iris running out with the others, she blends in perfectly.
Then came the puddle ducks and Pinball started to make a tantrum as if she had gone broody overnight. Squacking, fluffing up, running randomly through the duck-yard, bumping into everybody…
In the meantime, behind my back Blanca and Pompom snuck out of the house, Blanca being Pompom's service duck and before i noticed them they were already ½ way up to the pond…

No dragon in the house today!
So Pompom will get her antibiotics tablet in the evening.
She cannot blend in with any other ducks.
Unless she shaves off her pompom and bleaches her feathers white…

 

[Canadian Wind]

I told you to put some sort of tag on Iris!

 

[Aunt Angus]

I told you to put some sort of tag on Iris!

Or a flag.

Or you could dress her up:

(I just found this gif the other day, and I can't stop laughing at it so I have been using it every chance I get)

 

[Aunt Angus]

I've had dogs like that. Sad thing is, the medicine fought against the hardest I was prescribed one time. Oh my gosh!!! That was the most awful stuff!!! You can't get it down fast enough to not taste it! YUK YUK YUK!!! I feel sorry for any animal that has to take it now.

Well, good luck. It's friends like Pompom that keep life interesting. You'll remember that duck long after it's gone. ❤

I shove that syringe past their tongues now. I feel bad for them, too. Terrrrrrrrible stuff!

 

[WannaBeHillBilly]

I told you to put some sort of tag on Iris!

Oh, i can still identify her, she keeps her left eye shut. Getting to her without being given away by the other ducks is the problem…