Rural Gardening: Duck Emergency, Please Help, 1 by mevnmart

mevnmart wrote:
Warning - the photo I've attached is hard to look at.

Well, we got him cleaned up as best we could. I cleaned the bill with Hydrogen Peroxide and smeared it with some ointment and sprinkled his bill with cornstarch to stem the bleeding. His bill is cracked in a number of places, so I'm not sure if he's going to eat or how to feed him. We're going to soup up his water with sugar and some VitaRX(?) so he can have some calories, but that's not going to work long-term obviously. He's still got quite a bit of fight in him, but he's got blood coming out of his nostrils and he may have an injury on the side of his face, it's hard to tell - he struggles when I try to wipe at it. We've got him in a large dog kennel lined with newspaper and covered around the sides in a sheet to make it less drafty and make him feel more secure. I'm going to research some more, but from having parrots, I thought that beaks don't regenerate...I wonder if his bill will heal? If not, he's going to have a really hard time eating. Gah - this is terrible.