Show off your house ducks!

[Amykins]

Kristi! This is Amykins who I was directing you to on FB =) she replied to your post!

you are awesome =) I told Kristi that Wobs had angel wing and you might be able to give her your experience about wrapping his wing.

She's older and her wing feathers are already coming in, so she may need to be wrapped for five days or more. :/ It's pretty simple though, my best advice is to use PAPER TAPE, you know, that blue stuff you find at the craft store? It's not terribly sturdy but it comes off easily in water, and that's what we want. The last thing a ducky needs is to have sticky stuff caught right on her blood feathers! Just fold the wing up and wrap a few layers of the tape around it, just like you would an elbow or wrist. Make sure it's snug, and then try to keep her out of the water for a few days. Easier said than done.

You'll have to re-wrap it several times during the process, but as I said, it's better to have tape that comes off too easily than tape that sticks and pulls on those sensitive blood feathers!

Here's a photo of a well-wrapped wing for reference:



Now if she keeps picking at it, you might have to put her in "the sock of shame" like I did for Wobbles. I used an actual sock because he's teeny, but the standard is a nylon since it's stretchier and more comfy for the bird. Here it is in all its hilarious glory:




Buried somewhere on my camera is a photo of Wobbles in his little navy green sock, he looks just like a tamago nigiri sushi! I'll have to find it for you.

 

[kukupecpec]

Here it is in all its hilarious glory: Buried somewhere on my camera is a photo of Wobbles in his little navy green sock, he looks just like a tamago nigiri sushi! I'll have to find it for you.

She looks like she's wrapped in butcher paper all ready to take home and eat! Poor ducky! I love this picture of Wobs (I actually found it on Google images when I searched for "duck Angel wing wrapped" and thought "man! That looks just like Wobs!... Then I clicked. And it was, in fact, Wobbles the call duck lol)

 

[LadyHawkeAvry]

OMG Wobbles in his little wrap!! He must have been a stinker about getting his wing wrapped!!!

 

[LadyHawkeAvry]

I got the swelling down in Pale Girl's leg by about half, revealing the culprit. She had injured her knee somehow, and had a little pocket of infection. With the help of my daughter I did early morning surgery, and dug out a huge caseating granuloma!

She was nearly instantly more relaxed and calm after I got it out. She got the site irrigated, packed with triple antibiotic, and covered in gauze in a manner that kept pressure on the site, then she got a stylish camouflage vetwrap dressing and the morning outside to relax in the sun with her friends. They missed her a lot, and she kept us up all night talking through the wall to them...
She looks a lot better, and hopefully with her buddies by her side, she will get some sleep....

Missy was in the bathroom trying to figure out where the noisy duck in the bathroom that she had never actually seen went. Eventually she went back to the business of dabbling in herbal tea with honey and lime, deciding that it was far better to just be a house duck than worry about the affairs of the ducks outside....

 

[Julie Birb]

She's gonna be so pretty! She's already starting to feather out a bit, and sure enough the pinfeathers are white and beautiful charcoal grey. I wanted to take better pics of her, but as it turns out she's terrified of the camera. Because of course she is. So all the other shots I took were blurry since she was too busy running out of the frame!

Oh, sweet little Bean. I feel bad she's frightened. Is she okay with you holding her, though?

 

[Julie Birb]

Finally got pics!

As you can see, instead of having the color of mashed-up blueberry feets, now she just has...blueberries on her feets.

^ For reference on her growth rate, this is a similar photo I took just four days ago:



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....And that was her walking on the keyboard. Sigh.

EEEEEEEEEEEEE, I love the Bean with blueberries now on her feets. And I am proud of her walking on the keyboard. The face the face and again, the face. Kiss her for me.

 

[Julie Birb]

She sleeps at the head of the bed with me in the incubator room on her drop cloths. They are the same ones I had for her as a duckling, but I added a whole lot more. They come up in the morning and go into the washer when she gets up for the day. I usually have 3 on her sleeping spot and another couple on the bed itself, so even if she wanders everything stays clean. My blankets stay nice and poop free under the protective bird bedding. She can lean over from her favorite spot and preen my head, and her blankets also run on either side of me for when I wake up in the middle of the night with her plastered to my face. She is a little more mature now, so she is secure enough not to have to sleep on my head every night... The incubator room bed is essentially a futon, so she never is up on the pillowtop in the bedroom proper. Mom is restless at night, and sleeps at odd hours, so between watching the incubators, the backyard, and her, I am always out here. Hubby watches the back end of the house. Our bedroom is right next to mom's room, so he can watch her on that end. He sleeps with the ferret, who has been in bed with us since he was a kit, but is not safe with the baby birds. The cats all pile on mom now that the kittens are old enough to be on their own (they were dropped off on my back porch at 2 weeks, and were bottle fed and raised by me, in between hatching and raising a dozen pekins.... Like my imprint birds, they stayed with me 24/7 until they were weaned...) Most of this arrangement would be impossible if I was not watching an alzheimer's patient. What is safest for mom as far as supervision goes is also the most advantageous for imprinting and keeping a house duck.

Missy headed back out again after giving me kisses. I think she is a bit curious about the mystery duck in the bathroom. She has taken up watch just outside the door....

Kisses from Missy. Lucky.

 

[Julie Birb]

I got the swelling down in Pale Girl's leg by about half, revealing the culprit. She had injured her knee somehow, and had a little pocket of infection. With the help of my daughter I did early morning surgery, and dug out a huge caseating granuloma!

She was nearly instantly more relaxed and calm after I got it out. She got the site irrigated, packed with triple antibiotic, and covered in gauze in a manner that kept pressure on the site, then she got a stylish camouflage vetwrap dressing and the morning outside to relax in the sun with her friends. They missed her a lot, and she kept us up all night talking through the wall to them...
She looks a lot better, and hopefully with her buddies by her side, she will get some sleep....

Missy was in the bathroom trying to figure out where the noisy duck in the bathroom that she had never actually seen went. Eventually she went back to the business of dabbling in herbal tea with honey and lime, deciding that it was far better to just be a house duck than worry about the affairs of the ducks outside....

Wow. Impressive you did that. I know you are a doctor, but still. Great job!! yay that Pale Girl has you.

 

[Julie Birb]

@Amykins just noticed in a photo after I asked if you could hold Bean still because she was fearful and obviously you are able to hold her. Hard to keep posts in order when catching up.

 

[kukupecpec]

I got the swelling down in Pale Girl's leg by about half, revealing the culprit. She had injured her knee somehow, and had a little pocket of infection. With the help of my daughter I did early morning surgery, and dug out a huge caseating granuloma!

She was nearly instantly more relaxed and calm after I got it out. She got the site irrigated, packed with triple antibiotic, and covered in gauze in a manner that kept pressure on the site, then she got a stylish camouflage vetwrap dressing and the morning outside to relax in the sun with her friends. They missed her a lot, and she kept us up all night talking through the wall to them...
She looks a lot better, and hopefully with her buddies by her side, she will get some sleep....

Missy was in the bathroom trying to figure out where the noisy duck in the bathroom that she had never actually seen went. Eventually she went back to the business of dabbling in herbal tea with honey and lime, deciding that it was far better to just be a house duck than worry about the affairs of the ducks outside....

Way to go lady! What a lucky goose!