Sick wing being made worse by males ducks

[Sarah and Joey]

We had 6 Aylesbury ducks (4 females & 2 males)
Unfortunately about a month ago something (not sure yet if its a fox) decided to have one of the females for supper.
The next day we built a pen and have been fencing all of them in on a night.
They seemed to be safe until Sunday night something managed to dig into the pen & take another female. We thought it had actually taken two as there were only 3 left in the pen Monday morning. Then we found the other one Monday night, hiding in some bushes in the middle of the pond too frightened to come out, think she'd been hiding there all day. Too frightened to come out she spent the night out of the pen and finally came up to the other ducks on Tuesday morning.
We gave her a good checking over, bathed her with some antiseptic solution, looked to have a large clump of feathers missing on her shoulder but no skin actually broken and her wing was hanging down. Seemed very vacant as though maybe still in shock, so we took her indoors for the night, strapped her wing to her body and kept her warm. She did eat & drink but only a very little.
Weds morning, little Daisy still looked very frightened so we took her back to the pond to the other ducks, upon seeing them she perked up a little bit but the males were jumping on her back straight away, so we put her back in the pen next to the pond so that she could get some rest. Later in the afternoon we removed the bandage to see how she was doing. The wing seemed to be mostly staying tucked up by itself, when it did droop down she hitched it back up herself. Let her go have a swim, when she was with the other ducks she immediately perked up and seemed a lot better, so they all went into the chicken pen (which is more secure) last night. This morning she looked a lot better, joined in with feeding, and went for a swim with the others. Then the males starting again jumping on her back, we also have two small brown & white ducks who had seemed to be protecting her yesterday but today joined in the jumping!! It is spring and we're down to only 2 females left!! As the day as gone on her little wing has seemed to drop down more again and she's now struggling to pull it back up.
While she seems more settled when with the other ducks, think they're doing more damage and the wing will never heal if they keep jumping on her - but when we seperate her from the others it's like she's going back into shock.

Any ideas anybody whats the best thing to do with little Daisy???

Thanks

 

[jonhpdx]

You could do one of two things: Keep doing what you're doing by keeping her separate until she is truly back to full strength, or keep her in the same pen as the others, but fence it in half or so so that she can see them but they can't get at her.

In either case I would probably recommend keeping that bandage on her wing (replacing it and letting her stretch as necessary) until she doesn't even have to keep holding it up, it just stays there naturally like it did before. Make sure she gets plenty of food and water. If you want to let her have some play time with the other ducks, a good way to re-integrate is to feed them some treats all together. That way their attention is focused on the treats and no on pinning down your poor Daisy.

Hope this helps!

 

[Sarah and Joey]

Thanks for that, will try the treats trick tomorrow and maybe look for some more females to take some attention off the 2 remaining girls - just was a little reluctant to buy any more until we catch what ever is taking them.