Pompom Duck is doing much better, her left eye - the side where she has her crest - is still swollen and she keeps it closed, but she eats and drinks and jumps into the pond, so i assume she is through. - And her left eye has always been weak, so she relies more on her right eye.
Naughtius Maximus's left eye is completely crusted over, but i cannot get a hold on him. Maybe he has psycho-senses (yes he is a psycho-drake!) or he smells me, idk.
He really doesn't care about his eye, today spring was in the air here and the drakes were either fighting with each other or ducking. He ducked a lot…
The real issue is the female runner duck. Today i came into the duck-house to collect the eggs and do house-keeping and she was lying in one corner with both eyes swollen shut.
Can ducks have fever? Because she felt hot when i picked her up. When i picked her up she screamed so loud that the glass at the neighbors house's windows shattered and he lives a mile away…
She bit me and was fighting like a lioness, so there is still some strength in that bird, but her eyes looked just terrible. I can't buy any eye-drops with antibiotics without a prescription from a vet here, only ointment is available. - So i use what i have, the triple antibiotic from $
. It contains Bacitracin, Neomycin and Polymyxin. Carefully rubbed it around her eyes through the feathers onto her skin. She also has a wound on the left side of her head, it doesn't look like from a drake, more like a puncture. She may has hit something.
I held her on my lap and she drank plenty of water but wouldn't eat and wanted to get away from me, so i brought her back to the duck-house and set her in a nest in a safe spot and walled her off a bit with fresh straw.
If she makes it through the night, the other neighbor's windows will shatter tomorrow morning and i will apply another round of triple antibiotics to her head.
Repeat in the afternoon…
