drake has prolapsed penis!

[Dust Bunny]

my drake disco has a prolapsed penis and i know its not good, i ran cold water on it earlier today and GENTLY worked back inside and thought it would be ok but its hanging out again does anybody know what causes it and maybe what to do to help the poor guy? i feel so sorry for him its gota be uncomfortable and i worry it will get all dried out and funkey

 

[stuckinthecity]

OMG! I am so sorry!!! I am no help, I just wanted to say I hope you find out how to fix it!

 

[Brody's Broodello]

The experts say to cut it off.Seriously that is the prescribed treatment. Ducks have the ability to regrow the former part. But we had this last year, Very expensive show call, not only was it out in the middle of winter, it had a ball of ice attached to it. Stop laughing at the choice of words! Well after we got the ice removed, poor duck went back outside. Some of himself retracted back in. After a few weeks Hubby(who couldn't bring himself to detach duck manhood) was able to peel off the dried up dead flesh. Mr Ducky is fine now, grew back, and has a new girlfriend. She is unaware of any problems her had down there!

 

[WriterofWords]

I had White Pekin Drake that happened to and he lived the rest of his life like that, 7 years with it dragging behind him. The vet tried to fix it once but it didn't work.

 

[DuckLady]

Closed for clean up
This is a serious condition and should be treated as such.

 

[DuckLady]

My experience for a prolaspe is as follows.

We had a runner drake who prolapsed.
We kept him separated and on straw.
We washed and coated his phallus with Neosporin daily. Tucking it didn't work.

We did this every day for weeks until the end of the phallus started to dry out and die. At that point, we used sharp manicure scissors to snip off the dead flesh.

Eventually he was able to retract part of his phallus and we stopped treatment. With retraction, the remaining phallus was kept moist and therefore didn't dry out and die off.

Of course, the duck was a pet and the vet was very expensive and she told us over the phone that this was all she could recommend short of making a purse string suture around the vent to hold it in.

The removed part never will grow back but the drake was still able to mate as the phallus is a long tube. He recovered fine. The phallus is long enough to get the breeding done successfully.

It is recommended not to breed prolapsed drakes for show quality ducklings as this is thought to be hereditary, though not a definitive conclusion.
Some recommend culling and just removing from the gene pool.

Also you can do nothing,. Often the drakes goes along fine, but alternatively, can get infected badly with the drying out causing scabbing with peeling and exposure of open flesh to the bacteria in the droppings.

The treatment you choose all depends on you and your intent for the drake.

Good luck in treatment.

 

[Dust Bunny]

thanks for the info, i will follow your advise and hope for the best, he is only responsible for 1 hen and they are not a breeding pair, just pets/egg layers/slug control ect.