What in Ducky Heck is this!?

[shawluvsbirds]

@New2DuckyDoodles
Let us know how it goes. .
I am helplessly addicted to duck drama.

 

[DuckyDoodles]

@casportpony I didn’t even think of a blister! I guess that whole aforementioned Google DVM had me all stuck in the wrong mud. I would only raise an eyebrow towards the B.B. because she’d only been lame 5-6 days at time of discovery. That said: wth do I know!? LOL nature has a way of baffling.

@shawluvsbirds I think you and I will get along swimmingly . I too am a fan of all things gross. I used to be a vet assistant many more moons ago than I can recall :: lie :: and one of the things about that job is it breaks you of any squeamishness you might have.

(Full disclosure: I’m a sympathetic puker though; I can handle puss, urine, diarrhea/stools, blood, etc. Puke? Somebody better come relieve me or there’s gonna be a bigger mess (LOL))

@biophiliac I like to think I have a decent sense of humor on things. Totally devoid of any ego, self deprecating and I’m one of those people who says sorry if someone bumps into ME! I appreciate the compliment. Just be warned though: I’m (at times) wordy in my posts. I suppose it’s word vomit or I deluge the other party with what I feel (but often never is) pertinent info. I’m also a self-confessed impressive wealth of useless knowledge, former psych major, two degrees in courts/law and been married a time or two to police/military and child to a Marine. When you hang out with ‘the boys’ long enough, you can also find yourself to be a bit crass around the edges. I will make every effort not to be on BYC but it might slip :: apologies ::

Alright ladies and possible gents: I am off to get this gross train rolling. I too suspect it won’t come out at once (and I too would also be concerned that aiming for such a goal might hurt the girl) so I suspect I might be picking yucky bits for a minute :: eyeroll :: I guess after treating a prolapsed vent/possible botulism poisoning in another duck, this should be cake. I’ve eaten my wheaties :: flex ::

Will take pics. Likely no pimple-popping-video-satisfaction as hubs is a bum and still asleep and so I’ll need nurse kiddo’s hands elsewhere. Pics will be done if I have to hold the stinking iPhone with my elbows LOL

I mean, after all, we’re all morbidly curious now.

You know... for science.

 

[casportpony]

(Full disclosure: I’m a sympathetic puker though; I can handle puss, urine, diarrhea/stools, blood, etc. Puke? Somebody better come relieve me or there’s gonna be a bigger mess (LOL))

Alright ladies and possible gents: I am off to get this gross train rolling. I too suspect it won’t come out at once (and I too would also be concerned that aiming for such a goal might hurt the girl) so I suspect I might be picking yucky bits for a minute :: eyeroll :: I guess after treating a prolapsed vent/possible botulism poisoning in another duck, this should be cake. I’ve eaten my wheaties :: flex ::

Will take pics. Likely no pimple-popping-video-satisfaction as hubs is a bum and still asleep and so I’ll need nurse kiddo’s hands elsewhere. Pics will be done if I have to hold the stinking iPhone with my elbows LOL

I mean, after all, we’re all morbidly curious now.

You know... for science.

 

[casportpony]

I have pictures of one I treated if anyone wants to see them.

 

[shawluvsbirds]

I have pictures of one I treated if anyone wants to see them.

Do it
I only like gross pics cause I can't smell anything. It's the bad smells that get to me

 

[DuckyDoodles]

I have pictures of one I treated if anyone wants to see them.

By all means! If it weren’t for obsessive all-things-duck literature and BYC; I wouldn’t have known as much as I do (which I’m sure isn’t enough LOL)

Pretty proud of my nurse assistant. She’s making bits of leafy greens to put in her water dish that we’re gonna stick on the counter. Figure (like raising a toddler) it’s a distract and deescalate tactic. “ NO! Don’t drink the poop inducing water, drink THIS tasty water.”

Even whipped out some mealworms. Also like raising a toddler, I’m not against bribery

 

[biophiliac]

 

[Miss Lydia]

 

[DuckyDoodles]

Alright! Pics are in! Do I need to do something special/warn about “pic heavy” or something like that? It’s maybe 5-8 pics (though don’t hold my feet to the flames on that)

Unfortunately, the procedure was... well I feel it was unsuccessful. I got a big, nasty, nearly as hard as a rock plug/scab/THING out of the hole.she started panting around the time I was getting it out. About the time I got the ‘thing’ out, I realized there’s more... like there’s an entire area under that/below the surface that is black and hard and my god it feels like it’s directly on her breastbone. I start lightly tearing up crying because I look at her and god dang it she has a little ducky tear or two coming from her eye (no joke, nurse Abby took a pic for me). So now I’m getting the quiver chin because I do not want to hurt her. I’m scared whatever it is could mean something terrible. It had a mildly malodorous smell but, truthfully, I’ve smelt way worse on some infections. I think maybe it’s just been there so long, unbeknownst, that its stink is really just absorbed/diluted into whatever evil sort of thing this black hole has become.

For reference on what I’d done:

Epsom salt soak in my sink for about 10 minutes. Was hard to keep her focused on NOT drinking the water so we immediately deployed the lettuce,water and mealworm distraction operation. She only managed a sip-ish so I’m hoping no duck blow outs.

After soak, I wrapped her up in a blanket like one would swaddle a baby. Only I didn’t fold in the bottom so much because I didn’t want to put any wrong sorts of pressure on her egg maker or leg.

I rolled her onto her back and she immediately began stressed breathing. Only a couple of minutes before she started tiny little pants (where only the tip of her beak is opened).

I had previously sterilized the tools so I grabbed the tweezers out of the alcohol tub and grab the center of the plug and like one of those Pores of Winer videos, little gunk piece broke off. Went at it again and this time I got a good grasp and it came out like worlds most disgusting wine cork.

(Note to add: I began the process once she was on her back by applying thumbs on outward perimeter. It feels so hard in that area I knew I would inflict pretty good pain or damage if I went that route.)

Once I got it out and on a gauze swab, I looked and there was just so much more but deeply recessed, very hard and (seemingly) on her breast bone maybe?

At that point I had a tear or two in my eyes and noticed her tears. I called it quits at that point. I don’t want to hurt her.

Hubs came in and helped Nurse Abby and I apply vetericyn spray, packed it full of neosporin and topped off with another spritz or so of the vetericyn spray.

I did not use peroxide (diluted or otherwise) because I don’t know how that pocket in there is functioning and I don’t want to damage any good tissue at a bad time like this.

So stuck in my little animals-are-a-primary-part-of-my-world feelings.

How do you want pics? Some are indeed gross looking. Others are just a pickmeup of her being mealworm addicted.

 

[shawluvsbirds]

Alright! Pics are in! Do I need to do something special/warn about “pic heavy” or something like that? It’s maybe 5-8 pics (though don’t hold my feet to the flames on that)

Unfortunately, the procedure was... well I feel it was unsuccessful. I got a big, nasty, nearly as hard as a rock plug/scab/THING out of the hole.she started panting around the time I was getting it out. About the time I got the ‘thing’ out, I realized there’s more... like there’s an entire area under that/below the surface that is black and hard and my god it feels like it’s directly on her breastbone. I start lightly tearing up crying because I look at her and god dang it she has a little ducky tear or two coming from her eye (no joke, nurse Abby took a pic for me). So now I’m getting the quiver chin because I do not want to hurt her. I’m scared whatever it is could mean something terrible. It had a mildly malodorous smell but, truthfully, I’ve smelt way worse on some infections. I think maybe it’s just been there so long, unbeknownst, that its stink is really just absorbed/diluted into whatever evil sort of thing this black hole has become.

For reference on what I’d done:

Epsom salt soak in my sink for about 10 minutes. Was hard to keep her focused on NOT drinking the water so we immediately deployed the lettuce,water and mealworm distraction operation. She only managed a sip-ish so I’m hoping no duck blow outs.

After soak, I wrapped her up in a blanket like one would swaddle a baby. Only I didn’t fold in the bottom so much because I didn’t want to put any wrong sorts of pressure on her egg maker or leg.

I rolled her onto her back and she immediately began stressed breathing. Only a couple of minutes before she started tiny little pants (where only the tip of her beak is opened).

I had previously sterilized the tools so I grabbed the tweezers out of the alcohol tub and grab the center of the plug and like one of those Pores of Winer videos, little gunk piece broke off. Went at it again and this time I got a good grasp and it came out like worlds most disgusting wine cork.

(Note to add: I began the process once she was on her back by applying thumbs on outward perimeter. It feels so hard in that area I knew I would inflict pretty good pain or damage if I went that route.)

Once I got it out and on a gauze swab, I looked and there was just so much more but deeply recessed, very hard and (seemingly) on her breast bone maybe?

At that point I had a tear or two in my eyes and noticed her tears. I called it quits at that point. I don’t want to hurt her.

Hubs came in and helped Nurse Abby and I apply vetericyn spray, packed it full of neosporin and topped off with another spritz or so of the vetericyn spray.

I did not use peroxide (diluted or otherwise) because I don’t know how that pocket in there is functioning and I don’t want to damage any good tissue at a bad time like this.

So stuck in my little animals-are-a-primary-part-of-my-world feelings.

How do you want pics? Some are indeed gross looking. Others are just a pickmeup of her being mealworm addicted.

Poor baby. I vote just post them So that This may be a learning experience for all of us.