Red spot on 2(ish) week duckling, bruise?

[citymeetscountry]

Hoping @Isaac 0 can help. When I got my ducklings out of the brooder to go for a tub swim today I noticed one had a reddish purple mark on its neck that wasn’t there just hours earlier. Could the other ducks be picking on it? Is it scraping its head when it gets water? Is it normal? Is it some sort of growth? Did it burn itself on the heater? Its neck seems to be skinner than the others. It doesn’t seem like just skin, it almost resembles the purple birth marks humans sometimes have.

 

[citymeetscountry]

I think it’s a burn from the heater? I noticed this on its bill as well.

I’m using the producer’s pride heater (from TSC) and it’s standing up vertically now, so I’m assuming it must have been lying against the heater and got burned?

 

[Isaac 0]

It's possible the duckling is touching against the heater and is receiving burns; with bullying from other members of the flock, I would suspect some feather loss, but from the picture, there appears to be done. With blunt injures, you're more likely to see a greenish tint to the skin.

Try positioning the heat in a way the duckling can't touch it and get burned. Hopefully, you'll stop seeing the lesions after making changes.

 

[KaleIAm]

My duckings did have some feather thinning from scraping their necks on their waterer repeatedly. But it didn't cause any redness, just thinning. Every duckling had it in the same pattern on the under side of their necks where there water dish rubbed.

The bill photo does look like a little blister to me.

 

[arwoon]

Hoping @Isaac 0 can help. When I got my ducklings out of the brooder to go for a tub swim today I noticed one had a reddish purple mark on its neck that wasn’t there just hours earlier. Could the other ducks be picking on it? Is it scraping its head when it gets water? Is it normal? Is it some sort of growth? Did it burn itself on the heater? Its neck seems to be skinner than the others. It doesn’t seem like just skin, it almost resembles the purple birth marks humans sometimes have.

Probably burn, chicken and duck bruises are green

 

[citymeetscountry]

Ok so I have the heater standing vertical instead of overhead (it’s been this way for about a week). But I noticed they are definitely getting too big for the space I currently have for them. So tomorrow I will put some boxes together and make them a bigger brooder area and it should hopefully help/solve it and not cause anymore.

Do I need to do anything to treat the burn or just let it heal on its own?

 

[arwoon]

Ok so I have the heater standing vertical instead of overhead (it’s been this way for about a week). But I noticed they are definitely getting too big for the space I currently have for them. So tomorrow I will put some boxes together and make them a bigger brooder area and it should hopefully help/solve it and not cause anymore.

Do I need to do anything to treat the burn or just let it heal on its own?

It doesn't look severe, so it should heal on its own. If your worried about it you could put some burn gel.

 

[citymeetscountry]

It doesn't look severe, so it should heal on its own. If your worried about it you could put some burn gel.

It looks worse today? But I’m thinking it’s just going through the process of healing?

Is there a specific burn gel you’d recommend?

 

[arwoon]

It looks worse today? But I’m thinking it’s just going through the process of healing?

Is there a specific burn gel you’d recommend?

Try this:

Its for people but works for chickens so probably on ducks too. Maybe someone else has a better suggestion?

 

[Isaac 0]

It looks worse today? But I’m thinking it’s just going through the process of healing?

Is there a specific burn gel you’d recommend?

The high temperature likely created cellular destruction in/around the feathers which caused them to die. Application of an antibacterial ointment or cream would suffice for treatment.