Pompom Duck has her eyes infected

[WannaBeHillBilly]

The poor dear. At least she has the best care possible. I hope she recovers, and that you remember to put your armour on next time!

We were at about 20° (70F) here in the afternoon with gusty winds from the south-west, i almost grabbed the shorts…

 

[Canadian Wind]

We were at about 20° (70F) here in the afternoon with gusty winds from the south-west, i almost grabbed the shorts…

I would have been in shorts at 10!

 

[Aunt Angus]

drakehole mode

 

[WannaBeHillBilly]

Well, the word that starts with the first letter of the alphabet and also ends on "hole" is no longer allowed on this platform. Been there…
I am surprised that my "PornPorn Duck" post wasn't woked down...
https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/the-quack-shack.1312910/post-26527129

 

[Aunt Angus]

Well, the word that starts with the first letter of the alphabet and also ends on "hole" is no longer allowed on this platform. Been there…
I am surprised that my "PornPorn Duck" post wasn't woked down...
https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/the-quack-shack.1312910/post-26527129

You oughta make a ducktionary

 

[Aunt Angus]

Well, the word that starts with the first letter of the alphabet and also ends on "hole" is no longer allowed on this platform. Been there…
I am surprised that my "PornPorn Duck" post wasn't woked down...
https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/the-quack-shack.1312910/post-26527129

Oh my gosh! That's simultaneously hilarious and sad.

 

[WannaBeHillBilly]

Oh my gosh! That's simultaneously hilarious and sad.

As i wrote, i laughed my off.

 

[WannaBeHillBilly]

Update on the mysterious duck-eye disease:

• PomPom Duck think's i am the ax-murderer, whenever she sees me, she runs away. At the pond she takes air and crashes into the water whenever i approach. - The only exception is when i hold the supper-bowl in the evening. She knows that i need both hands to support that planter, so she can safely approach and dig in.
  I urgently need to grow a third arm…
• There are now two Monty Python drakes with a bad eye, Naughtius Maximus and Biggus Dickus kept their left eyes closed almost the whole day. I am not sure though if that's an infection or the result of a drake-brawl. Both had a slight limp too and their feathers looked ruffled up.

The little Runner Duck is still concerning me. She has almost lost her entire vision and without me feeding her two or three times a day she would starve or die of dehydration. She doesn't even quack when i pick her up, i just thell her i will pick you up now and she doesn't even twitch. I sat down in the sun with her to treat her eyes and it seems the sunlight is causing her pain in the eyes. Here's a short video of her eyes, i still have hope for her right eye…

Sorry for the bad quality and all the inappropriate angles, i had to hold a duck and try to see something on the dang phone-screen in bright sunlight.

Question is, what to do if she looses all of her vision?

 

[Aunt Angus]

Update on the mysterious duck-eye disease:

• PomPom Duck think's i am the ax-murderer, whenever she sees me, she runs away. At the pond she takes air and crashes into the water whenever i approach. - The only exception is when i hold the supper-bowl in the evening. She knows that i need both hands to support that planter, so she can safely approach and dig in.
  I urgently need to grow a third arm…
• There are now two Monty Python drakes with a bad eye, Naughtius Maximus and Biggus Dickus kept their left eyes closed almost the whole day. I am not sure though if that's an infection or the result of a drake-brawl. Both had a slight limp too and their feathers looked ruffled up.

The little Runner Duck is still concerning me. She has almost lost her entire vision and without me feeding her two or three times a day she would starve or die of dehydration. She doesn't even quack when i pick her up, i just thell her i will pick you up now and she doesn't even twitch. I sat down in the sun with her to treat her eyes and it seems the sunlight is causing her pain in the eyes. Here's a short video of her eyes, i still have hope for her right eye…

Sorry for the bad quality and all the inappropriate angles, i had to hold a duck and try to see something on the dang phone-screen in bright sunlight.

Question is, what to do if she looses all of her vision?

Awwww.... Poor baby! That doesn't look good at all. I have no idea what could be going on. Wish I did.

@Miss Lydia
@Canadian Wind
@ruthhope
@HollowOfWisps
@Quatie

Any thoughts here?

 

[ruthhope]

Awwww.... Poor baby! That doesn't look good at all. I have no idea what could be going on. Wish I did.

@Miss Lydia
@Canadian Wind
@ruthhope
@HollowOfWisps
@Quatie

Any thoughts here?

I am sorry, I am late to the party -- I hadn't been notified of the original post by BYC.

I doubt that the ducks have hayfever/allergy. I think it far more likely that the eyes are irritated by dust and perhaps mold spores from the hay. once the eye is irritated it can get a secondary bacterial infection. I once had to buy a bale of hay for my son's ducks because my source for pine straw [I live in Florida and pine straw is locally preferred bedding] sold me a damp bale. I took it back but they had no dry ones. I felt guilty for giving my son's ducks the hay to nest in as I knew the risk of dust/mold related problems. They were OK!

Increasing the ventilation as @WannaBeHillBilly has done is a good preventative action.

Ridding the duck house of amonia another.

When I have had ducks with eye infections -- from presumed foreign body or particle in the eye -- I bring them into the house in a dog crate. That is so that I can bathe the eye with salt water and smear with tetracycline eye ointment twice or even three times a day, initially. I suspect that your ducks free ranging and not getting intensive treatment for the first few days is why the problems persisted. Once the duck is on the mend they do start objecting to being caged, and then they go back outside, but I keep them in a temporary run with a buddy, while they are on once daily eyewashes and ointment treatment.

I have a muscovy that frequently gets foamy eye. He often has one eye completely obscured and can see and cope perfectly well with just one eye -- thus I might not immediately notice the foamy eye as he turns his good eye towards me. Recently, he had two foamy eyes and I quickly noticed as he couldn't see to find the ducky soup with mealworms [his favorite]. He did get to to food bowl but I watched him and realised he was following the sound of the other drakes to get there. So your duck @WannaBeHillBilly will manage in a relatively small environment -- like your duck house and a small daytime pen -- if she loses sight in both eyes. I hope that she doesn't lose sight in both eyes but there are others on BYC who have blind ducks that do ok.

When I do bathe ducks' eyes and smear with eye ointment, I first wrap them up firmly in a good sized towel -- that reduces the problems with long claws and general fighting. The boy in the photo is a pekin but its even more important to wrap up my muscovy drakes as they are so strong and have such long and sharp claws!