A small kit for a small, busy duck
A Khaki Campbell first aid kit needs saline wound wash, non-stick dressings, light cohesive wrap, small rounded scissors, disposable gloves, clean towels, gauze, and a ventilated recovery crate or pet carrier lined with a towel, plus your avian or farm vet's number in the lid. Khaki Campbells are light, upright, restless ducks bred to lay heavily and forage all day, so the injuries you will actually treat are worn or cut feet, a leg strained scrambling over a ramp or wire edge, and occasional pecking damage, not the large-animal wounds a cattle kit is built for. Scale everything down and keep it gentle.
Feet first: where a Khaki Campbell gets hurt
Constant walking on wet, rough, or frozen ground makes a Khaki Campbell's feet her weak point, so stock the kit for foot care specifically: non-stick pads that can sit against the webbed foot, wrap that holds a dressing on without squeezing the thin toes, and a shallow, clean basin reserved for supervised lukewarm soaks that soften debris before you inspect a sore spot. Check both feet whenever you catch her for anything else, because a duck still foraging eagerly may be hiding a limp until the moment she is separated from the flock. A spare section of smooth matting or board for the recovery crate floor matters too, since a healing foot should not rest on wire or sharp bedding.
Feather-safe wound care for a bird that preens everything
Clean a Khaki Campbell's wound with saline and gentle pressure, never by dunking the bird, and avoid sticky tape directly on feathers, which tears out down and distresses a duck who will immediately try to preen the dressing off. Wrap over a non-stick pad and check the wrap within the hour and again at roost, because a wrap that slips down a duck's leg can tighten as she moves. Keep feed and, importantly for a duck, water deep enough to dip her bill and clear her nostrils within reach of the recovery crate; a duck prevented from wetting her head quickly becomes a second problem on top of the first.
The recovery crate is part of the kit
For ducks, the container is a supply in its own right: keep the crate clean, assembled, and stored with the kit, lined with a towel rather than loose bedding that sticks to a dressing. A Khaki Campbell separated for treatment should still see and hear the flock, since this is a social, easily stressed breed, and a duck who can watch her companions settles, eats, and heals better than one shut away in silence. Weigh her in your hands when you handle her during treatment; a laying duck who feels suddenly light across the keel bone is giving you information worth recording and, if it continues, worth a vet conversation.
Khaki Campbell problems that need a vet promptly
Contact a vet if a Khaki Campbell's foot is swollen and hot, if she stops bearing weight, if a wound is deep or near the vent, if she is egg-bound in appearance: straining, tail pumping, and sitting apart, or if she goes off food and stops laying abruptly alongside other signs. Ducks mask illness well, so treat a clear change in behaviour as evidence, not fussiness. Recording each foot episode, laying change, and treatment in one place helps the vet judge whether this is one injury or a housing problem repeating itself, and KinsLe Pet Passport holds your Khaki Campbell's records in one packet you can share in seconds.