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    vibrating chicks feel like they are "purring"?

    One of mine just did it. It was a little cold, so I picked it up and held it in my hand. It did the happy thrill, and fell asleep. Then out of nowhere, whole body vibration like a cat purr and cheeks puffing and large body breathing, mouth closed. I thought it was a respiratory problem, but it...
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    Emergency baby duck 3 to 5 days old

    I take him swimming 2 times a day. I also hold him to eat and drink on the hour each hour. He also spends time on my lap or with me a lot of the day. He's eating fine making happy chirp noises and drinking ok. No alarm calls at all. Just quiet and happy noises. As for the leg. In warm water it...
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    Emergency baby duck 3 to 5 days old

    I have also put water soluble vitamin pro, today, added some boiled egg and green beans to his feed (today) which contains b3 and many others, until I can get some b3 for ducks. I'm just not sure how to fix it's leg, especially if no vet will touch it. But honestly it's beak is ok, it's under a...
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    Emergency baby duck 3 to 5 days old

    They free range and have extra feed. I actually had to put the babies initially on a mix of quail feed and chicken developer as I wasn't sure when they would arrive. They are under 5 days old and have been on chick starter non medicated for 48 hours. There was just a small scratch on the back of...
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    Duckling emergency 3 to 5 days old leg problem

    Ok so I posted in ducks, but didn't really get any reply. Not sure of the breed. 2 hatchling ducklings. 3 to 5 days old. Free ranged with extra feed. 5 other large ducks in the enclosure mix of boys and girls. 4pm yesterday all ok. 6.30pm one was stuck in the pond, helped it out, it's...
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    Emergency baby duck 3 to 5 days old

    So anyone? Injury or vitamin If I had to guess the way it's holding it's foot, is ankle. It can't walk, if I leave it alone it's stuck on its side. I have to hold it to eat and drink. It's not making loud noises, so I don't think it's very painful, but honestly I don't know ducks all that well.
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    Emergency baby duck 3 to 5 days old

    Ok so news update. I guess they were attacked by something as the one without a broken/ injured leg died in the night. It had a small mark on its back and although I was cuddling with it and the 2 were cuddling together, my attention was focused on the one with the bad leg. I made sure he ate...
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    Emergency baby duck 3 to 5 days old

    It's inside sleeping on my lap in a towel with it's sibling. I'm living in the tropics so it's never very cold here. Never under 22 deg c He's making 3 soft peeps every now and again, I guess just making sure I'm here taking care of him, I tickle his head and he goes back to sleep each time
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    Emergency baby duck 3 to 5 days old

    It's either been stepped on, fallen, or been attacked by one of the bigger ducks or a preditor., Or a vitamin deficency, but would a deficency kick in within an hour? Luckily the past days I have been picking them up and they do not feel upset or stressed by me already.
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    Emergency baby duck 3 to 5 days old

    Hello, I've got some ducks, no clue the breed. One has just hatched 2 baby ducks over 2 days. The oldest one is around 5 days old. They live in an outside enclosure, just fenced and have a duck pond. The terrain is rocky has trees and plants and soil, but there is lots of rock. It's already...
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    Avian pox or respiratory illness

    Ok general update. The original black one pictured above showed improvement, then declined. It's comb went quite pale. I checked it several times and this week found mites bathed it and it seemed to improve again, but unfortunately died yesterday. One of the babies has also declined with 2...
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    Avian pox or respiratory illness

    Ok general update. 3 small ones seem fully recovered. 2 roosters seem fully recovered. The brown one in the picture above. One broiler has some down with one eye closed and crusty with small black spots. One black one in the picture above has gone downhill, both eyes closed mainly and always...
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    Avian pox or respiratory illness

    General improvement today, one stopped rattling and no nasal discharge. Go aloe vera. Just FYI also putting tumeric in the feed,extra tumeric for the very sick / very young and fresh chilli for the ones well enough to still be outside. Also 2 have one eye closed, one was bloodred, using honey...
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    Avian pox or respiratory illness

    Hi nendei Aloe vera is also anti viral Anti fungal etc, it's even been known to interrupt influenza 🤞 actually 2 of my sickest birds perked up this morning so I'll post more throughout the week
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    Avian pox or respiratory illness

    In Belgium in particular they have swapped to aloe vera as antibiotics have been banned. It's been widely used in africa. So I'll update you in 7 days
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