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I’ve been at this for a decade and let me tell you I’ve hatched lots of ducklings and only 3 of the probably about 8 or 9 sick ones ever made it to adulthood. If I had one with a similar issue to yours it wouldn’t last long. I had one simply collapse mid-step and was dead before she hit the...

I’ve got ducks and not chickens but a mink got into my coop and killed fifteen of them. Thankfully we heard the commotion, but by the time we got out there it was a bloodbath. I had two males and two females left, and both males were injured quite badly. They made full recoveries but it was...

Sorry to hear that :( they’re such delicate little creatures and unfortunately sick ducklings often won’t make it. You did the best you could.

I have a hen that becomes broody every year and will give up on the eggs after about a week. Sometimes she’ll come back to them for two more days later on, but usually she won’t. The eggs spend more time cold than warm, so I don’t trust her to lay on them anymore. I keep snatching them and...

I’ve been looking but haven’t had any luck finding any females nearby. She’s made a full recovery and rejoined the flock! She’s now sitting on some fertile eggs so hopefully I’ll be able to reestablish some of my flock size. Unfortunately even when I had a bunch females she was STILL the...

Will try the warm water, thanks. I did a saline one already and it didn’t budge. Yeah she’s part of my original flock. The only one left. She has one boy that would always defend her but unfortunately a mink got in my coop and killed the majority of them, including him. The only two males I have...

It must be. She’s hissing at me if I get too close to it but hopefully it’s helping anyway. Poor baby. I’ve had her for ten years and she’s never been so touchy. Certainly doesn’t look any worse this morning thankfully, though I wouldn’t say it looks better. She’s a little more cheery now it...

I got that picture of her finally. I started rinsing it with saline and I did treat her with terramycin but it looks really REALLY bad, though this picture makes it look a bit worse than it is. Her other eye is completely normal. Lot of missing feathers from over mating. I want to wipe away the...

Did that right away. I’m just gonna stop there on my home and hope they have it. If they don’t I’ll probably go to the vet.

I found multiple sources saying that can happen and she has absolutely no respiratory symptoms. I know she is being over mated because she is the favorite of the males and is missing most of her neck and head feathers at this point. I will be posting pictures here when I get home but I can’t...

I don’t but the tractor supply might. I can stop there on my way home.

I can get some when I get home, I had to get to work but I’m off in two hours.

One of my girls has foamy eye disease from over-mating and it’s quite sunken and swollen. At first I thought her eye had been pecked out and panicked, but it seems to still be there behind the swelling. She’s still eating and drinking, but her eye looks really bad. I could bring to the vet ER if...

Only one injury is visible. The younger female is just bruised on either her wing or chest, I can’t tell which; and the other male is almost healed. I’m probably gonna bring him in for antibiotics tomorrow, but the wound is clotted and healing. I cleaned that out a couple times yesterday and...

I had nineteen ducks until yesterday morning, now I have four. Not something I ever wanted to say. A mink got into the coop early in the morning and killed 15 of them, injured two, caused one to hurt herself, and left a single duck unscathed. I’m devastated. Somehow though, it’s the unscathed...

Thanks! I’ll mix her food with some water for a couple days because it always gets her up. Thankfully I’ve only seen two poops like this and none since this morning.

One of my girls is pooping a very vivid green color. It’s one of three ducks (the only ones staying indoors as the males are especially aggressive toward them this time of year. They are occasionally visited by one male. Other than that, no one goes into the closed in area of the coop and they...

She’s only limping today, not collapsing. I’m hoping without the males exacerbating the issue she’ll improve. Fingers crossed.

She’s not collapsing today, just sorta limping. She’s taking shorter steps on one side than the other to keep the weight off. One of the girls did have a runny yellowish poop but since it’s the first one I’ve seen so I’m guessing it’s a fluke and I can’t say whose it is. Definitely could’ve...

I might separate her, but no signs of illness as far as I can tell. Of course, birds are good at hiding it, so I can’t say for sure, but it’s clear she’s in pain with no outward signs of labored breathing, flying trouble, appetite or poop problems, or lethargy.