Cubalaya Thread For Sharing Pics and Discussing Our Birds - Page 88

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Originally Posted by welasharon 

Get some liquid baby vitamins without iron (poly vi sol) and give him a couple drops a day. You can make a sludge from canned cat food diluted with water to give him some nutrients to see if you can get him to turn around.

He died last night, but thanks for the advice anyway.  I knew it was a long shot, but I had to try.  Any thoughts on what might have caused this?  I have had a few of my American Game pullets and cockerels die similarly this year.  Fine one day, dead the next; for no explicable reason. I have seen dogs die of parvo in a single afternoon kind of like this. Could it be something like this?  I have about 70 other chickens and all are nice and healthy, if it were some kind of contagious disease I would think I would have chickens dead all over.

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Originally Posted by Jungleexplorer 

One of my cockerels was taken ill all of the sudden a few days ago.  He was perfectly healthy one day and the next morning I found laying him motionless on the ground.  I thought he was dead until I saw him still breathing.  I have no idea what happened.  My first guess was that he might have been bitten by a rattlesnake (I have seen more snakes in the last week on my farm then in the last year).

How horrible. It is really confusing that only one out of so many would be suddenly ill. Since there was no obvious trauma, I guess your thoughts on snake or spider venom are reasonable since there is no other explanation. But again, only 1 bird?  Wrong place at the right time?

Bruce

Wow, that sounds awful. Do you have many ticks around? There is this really nasty critter called blue bugs. They are a soft bodied tick that can kill poultry and carry some kind of paralysis fever.  A friend from a nearby county lost a bird to that. It is very sudden. Her area is loaded with wild turkeys.
 

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Originally Posted by wood&feathers 

Wow, that sounds awful. Do you have many ticks around? There is this really nasty critter called blue bugs. They are a soft bodied tick that can kill poultry and carry some kind of paralysis fever.  A friend from a nearby county lost a bird to that. It is very sudden. Her area is loaded with wild turkeys.
 

Have not seen a tick all year and there are no turkeys in my area in spite of my five year massive wildlife habitat improvement efforts.  Finally got some quail and cotton tails this year though.  The severe drought has all but killed off the wild game around here.

Sometimes they die without any obvious explanation.
 

Chicken die. they just do, for any of a hundred different reasons. Do you best to eliminate obvious ways for them to die, within reason. That will eliminate most deaths. Things will always happen however. Sooner or later we all have a bad season, month, or day. I lose maybe 1-3 birds a year for no apparent reason. It's best to back ups for anything you can't lose. 

Does anyone remember the name of the thread with all the pictures of Asian game spurs? One of my 5 mo cubalaya hens in the layer flock (she's crow headed, with yellow legs) is developing interesting spur buds. I'll see if I can take a picture...just want to see an example of the bud for multiple spurs.