Johnson10556
In the Brooder
- Apr 14, 2020
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Let me start with I know that this is part of having farm animals and we live a significant way from any vet that will see a duck. I am doing all I can to save her and if anyone has any suggestions my family would love to hear them.
It is currently about 3pm on Tuesday and on Sunday night at 7:30pm one of our Peking Ducks was attacked by a coyote in our backyard. Luckily, we saw the coyote before things got too out of control as all our birds (11 hens, 1 rooster and 5 ducks 2 drakes and 3 hens) were out free ranging. One of our Female Ducks was attacked pretty bad and was carried across the yard by the coyote. She is Pekin duck 1 year old, about 5 lbs (need to weigh her) and has two puncture wounds. She has a puncture wound on her right shoulder that we cleaned, cut back the feathers and applied a blood clotting spray and antibiotic ointment on and it has stopped bleeding and currently seems ok. She also has a significant puncture on her left chest that needed stitches as she was bleeding out pretty badly. I was able to stitch her closed with a sterile needle and unflavored dental floss with the help of my husband and coated the area with a significant amount of blood clot and antibiotic ointment. I know I will have to remove them in due time but its all I had at the time and was doing the best I could. We brought her inside and put her in our shower with hay, a bowl of water and feed. She made it though the night but Im sure it was rough.
When my husband found her and carried her to me after the attack she had her head down as ducks do when you pick them up and we had to put her on her back to get her stitched up. I didnt think much of the head down position at first, I was just hopeful we could stop the bleeding but now a day and a half later she is still having trouble picking up her head and is almost using her beak as a tripod. She also doesn't like to lay down and looks exhausted as she mostly stands all day but I'm assuming that is because of the significant wound on her left breast. She usually is standing with her beak in her water bowl when I go check on her. We have been giving her children's ibuprofen and the little bit of an antibiotic that we are now out of. She will drink water but not eat the food crumbles that we are giving our baby chicks, She will drink the juice off of mashed up peas but will not eat the peas themselves. We were able to give her a warm bath this morning to get her to relax and clean some of the dried blood off of her. She is still pooping but it is almost a lime green color and there is no substance to it, its pretty much water.
I have called a vet and they told me to find Tetracycline to put in her water as an antibiotic but none of the feed stores around us have it in stock. I am looking for suggestions on that I should give her for both pain and an antibiotic as well as suggestions on her neck. I'll post picture as soon as I can.
It is currently about 3pm on Tuesday and on Sunday night at 7:30pm one of our Peking Ducks was attacked by a coyote in our backyard. Luckily, we saw the coyote before things got too out of control as all our birds (11 hens, 1 rooster and 5 ducks 2 drakes and 3 hens) were out free ranging. One of our Female Ducks was attacked pretty bad and was carried across the yard by the coyote. She is Pekin duck 1 year old, about 5 lbs (need to weigh her) and has two puncture wounds. She has a puncture wound on her right shoulder that we cleaned, cut back the feathers and applied a blood clotting spray and antibiotic ointment on and it has stopped bleeding and currently seems ok. She also has a significant puncture on her left chest that needed stitches as she was bleeding out pretty badly. I was able to stitch her closed with a sterile needle and unflavored dental floss with the help of my husband and coated the area with a significant amount of blood clot and antibiotic ointment. I know I will have to remove them in due time but its all I had at the time and was doing the best I could. We brought her inside and put her in our shower with hay, a bowl of water and feed. She made it though the night but Im sure it was rough.
When my husband found her and carried her to me after the attack she had her head down as ducks do when you pick them up and we had to put her on her back to get her stitched up. I didnt think much of the head down position at first, I was just hopeful we could stop the bleeding but now a day and a half later she is still having trouble picking up her head and is almost using her beak as a tripod. She also doesn't like to lay down and looks exhausted as she mostly stands all day but I'm assuming that is because of the significant wound on her left breast. She usually is standing with her beak in her water bowl when I go check on her. We have been giving her children's ibuprofen and the little bit of an antibiotic that we are now out of. She will drink water but not eat the food crumbles that we are giving our baby chicks, She will drink the juice off of mashed up peas but will not eat the peas themselves. We were able to give her a warm bath this morning to get her to relax and clean some of the dried blood off of her. She is still pooping but it is almost a lime green color and there is no substance to it, its pretty much water.
I have called a vet and they told me to find Tetracycline to put in her water as an antibiotic but none of the feed stores around us have it in stock. I am looking for suggestions on that I should give her for both pain and an antibiotic as well as suggestions on her neck. I'll post picture as soon as I can.
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