What in Ducky Heck is this!?

[Miss Lydia]

@Mama Runner here ya go.

 

[Nyla]

Hello! Thanks for thew tag!
The pictures look like a wound scabbed over and detached from the skin. I personally would try to pick off or dampen the scab like black hole and try cleaning it. I once had a Muscovy who had similar wound under her wing. I just kept picking at it and cleaning it till it was gone. I'm kinda lost in all the posts. I read OP wanting to drive to another members place to do something , but don't understand what the something is? Is OP wanting to pick at the wound ,clean it? I'm always up for meeting new people!

I personally take my ducks to
Arbor View Animal Hospital
(219) 762-7267
244 W US HIGHWAY 6
VALPARAISO, IN 46385 7911
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Also there is a vet that takes care of Ducks in INdi.
Avian & Exotic Animal Clinic
(317) 879-8633
9330 Waldemar Rd, Indianapolis, IN 46268
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Bird & Exotic Pet Wellness Center  
5166 Monroe St #306, Toledo, OH 43623
Phone: (419) 843-3137

Thanks Miss Lydia!

I see @Nyla posts on the Indiana thread! Can you help here?? If you don't have time to read this whole thing right now, please scroll back to post #73

 

[Mama Runner]

Fort Wayne is far from me. But I will try and give step by step instructions.

1) When you run her PT bath make sure it's warm. Try and keep her in for 30 minutes.
2) In the bath place 1 cup of Epsom salt.
3) take a clean wash rag while she is in her bath and just gently rub at it. Expecially around the edges. Don't squeeze because if it is an abcess it might pop internally.
4) try and do this 3-4 times a day over the next few days.
5) you can give her a treat of peas with some oregano and open a niacin pill and mix in the powder from the pill for her leg.

Try this and let me know how she is doing please.

 

[casportpony]

Okay, will do. I don’t know how pics/vids post on the site (basically, computer stuff about size/pixels/whatever) but I can also do a real quick, maybe 10 seconds, video once I get done with the pluck? Maybe give a better look into the hole or something?

Don't worry about size, just post. If you want to do a video, that would be great. To post video here you have to upload to youtube or vimeo then post the link here

Would that help you guys, you think? Or maybe it’d just be unnecessary. Because truth be told, what I’m most worried about isn’t the hole itself but what the hole is in/near/on/around or how far it could have spread at this point. I’m okay with doing the nitty gritty of it. And I’m completely prepared to dedicate time and attention to it. Just spooked by its location... well that and coupled with the fact that this is an injury that has not occurred since I’ve lived here so I can’t help but worry what’s at the end of (or cause of) this evil smelly rabbit hole.

This also concerns me because I expected to see some muscle tissue around it.

If your pics popped up in my actual reply here, I suck and I’m sorry. Trying to NOT include them since you managed to keep them on the down low.

I placed them in a spoiler because there were lots of them and I didn't want to slow loading down. So don't worry, just keep posting like you have been.

So I remember one of you fine veterans saying their pus isn’t really liquid-like as most everything/everyone else’s would be, right? Something along the lines of ‘you can’t really squeeze poultry pus out; it’s gotta be grabbed and scooped out’ or something to that effect. So is that why your bird’s yuck stuffs looked like crushed toffee bits? How did you manage to get all of them out (I.e, tweezers, did they come out after power washing with saline spray, etc.) and how did you know when to stop? I mean with cats, dogs and humans; I’ve always been able to tell because even cyst filling is worlds softer than this crud. And the act of getting this crud off is going to cause irritation (tiny amounts of blood) but I also don’t want to go opening her tissues up to be susceptible to spreading whatever unholiness this stuff is, right?

"The tricky thing about birds’, herbivores’ (rabbits, guinea pigs, rats), and reptiles’ pus is that it is thick, like cottage cheese or toothpaste, because these animals lack the ability to break it down into a liquid, like our pus. This is the reason we have to perform surgery to remove the pus from these animals and not just cut the area open and let it drain out." Source: http://avianexoticsvet.com/case-of-the-month/#collapse_5_queenie-the-peahen

I should probably remove what I can, rinse with saline mixture then remove a piece, rinse, and so on and so forth, right?

That's how I would proceed.

How often did you change her dressings? Or did you leave them be/not change them because maybe it’d present more opportunities for reintroduction of bacteria?

I changed his bandage every few days.

 

[casportpony]

I am having trouble visualizing where the wound is. In this picture it looks like it's just to the right of the center of her breastbone. and below the sideways "v" shown in the next picture.

Can you confirm that it is not in the sideways "v" and is more or less in the black box?

Duck skin looks like it is quite thick and the breast muscle is much darker than chicken breast.

 

[WVduckchick]

Hello! Thanks for thew tag!
The pictures look like a wound scabbed over and detached from the skin. I personally would try to pick off or dampen the scab like black hole and try cleaning it. I once had a Muscovy who had similar wound under her wing. I just kept picking at it and cleaning it till it was gone. I'm kinda lost in all the posts. I read OP wanting to drive to another members place to do something , but don't understand what the something is? Is OP wanting to pick at the wound ,clean it? I'm always up for meeting new people!

I personally take my ducks to
Arbor View Animal Hospital
(219) 762-7267
244 W US HIGHWAY 6
VALPARAISO, IN 46385 7911
-------------------------------------
Also there is a vet that takes care of Ducks in INdi.
Avian & Exotic Animal Clinic
(317) 879-8633
9330 Waldemar Rd, Indianapolis, IN 46268
-----------------------------------
Bird & Exotic Pet Wellness Center  
5166 Monroe St #306, Toledo, OH 43623
Phone: (419) 843-3137

Nice resources!
I think the OP is basically wanting some assistance in digging into the black hole a little more, as she is unsure how to proceed. Mostly just a helping hand from someone that knows ducks and can help hold the bird, assess the problem, etc. Thanks for popping over!

 

[onaharley]

Hello! Thanks for thew tag!
The pictures look like a wound scabbed over and detached from the skin. I personally would try to pick off or dampen the scab like black hole and try cleaning it. I once had a Muscovy who had similar wound under her wing. I just kept picking at it and cleaning it till it was gone. I'm kinda lost in all the posts. I read OP wanting to drive to another members place to do something , but don't understand what the something is? Is OP wanting to pick at the wound ,clean it? I'm always up for meeting new people!

I personally take my ducks to
Arbor View Animal Hospital
(219) 762-7267
244 W US HIGHWAY 6
VALPARAISO, IN 46385 7911
-------------------------------------
Also there is a vet that takes care of Ducks in INdi.
Avian & Exotic Animal Clinic
(317) 879-8633
9330 Waldemar Rd, Indianapolis, IN 46268
-----------------------------------
Bird & Exotic Pet Wellness Center  
5166 Monroe St #306, Toledo, OH 43623
Phone: (419) 843-3137

I go to this one in Toledo!!! Love it there!!! It’s only a 20 minute drive for me!!!

 

[shawluvsbirds]

Just read this entire ordeal. I applaud your commitment to a creature that "came with the property". It amazes me that she has allowed you to even touch her, seriously impressed with what you are trying to do.

I wish I was in a location able to help, but I was thinking if you popped over to your State thread, and/or the states you are closest too, and post a quick blurb and link to this thread, you might find someone within reach for a hands-on assist. I'd totally do it if we were closer.

Best wishes, and I'll be following along, figured Shaw might share a pom-pom with me.

Absolutely
Loving all the great information and resources pouring out here
This duck deserves the get well team assembling!
I wouldn't be a sceered of no short curly haired lady. . but I would be just as a sceered to go digging in that hole as she is so I'm no help

 

[Ravynscroft]

Y'all are awesome!!

I'd be willing to help, but am pretty far... and carless myself right now... just don't see it being feasible...

 

[WVduckchick]

Y'all are awesome!!

I'd be willing to help, but am pretty far... and carless myself right now... just don't see it being feasible...

Carless meaning no vehicle. I read careless, which you never are!