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  1. K

    One of two chicks died.

    I got 2 chicks from a store on the 16th. They were both a little sick. We were going to get 3 chicks, but the mother didn’t want her to go. Unfortunately, we were informed that the 3rd had died, the mother was sick. The male chick has blue around his eyes, he doesn’t open them a lot. The female...
    • Kippy80
    • Thread
    • asap chickens chicks dead death emergencies help question sad sick
    • Replies: 6
    • Forum: Raising Baby Chicks
  2. M

    Chicken shaking head? Mystery symptoms?

    About a month ago, we lost a chicken to a mystery illness - scans revealed an enormous, possibly malignant tumor on which the vet could not operate, so we had to put her down. We now have another chicken with the same exact symptoms - she's lethargic, she's lost interest in things she loves, she...
  3. BluejaySerenade

    Memorial to Fern

    May 11th, 2020 - May 25th, 2021 One of our hens died last night. She was a sweet and loving hen, though shy at first. She was taken from us by a dreaded predator. She got too curious and stuck her head out of the chicken wire, and in turn, it got bit off. I miss her dearly. She was a gorgeous...
  4. R

    3 week old chick sudden death, ?Crop related

    Hi all, this afternoon I found one of my 3 week old chicks dead. I noticed last night she was acting a little “off”, wouldn’t lay down with the others and stood on her own sleeping. No fluffed feathers or obvious shortness of breath. Today when I picked her up I noticed her crop was full, and I...
  5. Blue Raptor

    Ever wanted to...

    Have you ever had something you always wished you could share about your flock?? Post it here *Never heard before stories!* about any flock member(s)!
  6. B

    SLW hen death... hurting + looking for insight

    My favorite hen died two days ago after being sick for around 3-4 days. She was a SLW, only 14 months old... I would have said she was my healthiest animal if you'd asked a week ago. She was strong and adventurous, her voice was sweet and musical. She had such a pretty voice! I couldn't...
  7. Diveks

    Possible cause of seizures and death?

    my 5 year old polish hen was doing well this morning but suddenly at 12 she had a seizure and died soon after. i am not sure what might have caused this. i had one other hen with her which i guess needs a friend now. I am devastated since i hand raised these two chicks and they had been through...
  8. D

    Ducklings dying

    Hello, I ordered 4 golden layer ducks from mypetchicken. I received them yesterday morning, when I first set them out they were all active and drinking and eating. A couple hours passed and one became lethargic and soon passed away. That night the rest continued to be relatively active, two a...
  9. Cleetus777

    Hen Randomly Passed Away

    Hello all, This morning I had one of hens pass away. It had to have happened early this morning as I checked on all of them late last night. There are no signs of a predator, she was eating fine (in fact she was first to eat), drinking water fine, walking around and scratching, roosted fine...
  10. E

    My hen was attacked (she did not survive)

    My Buff Orpington was attacked at some point this morning and unfortunately she did not survive. :-( I am so heart broken. We had had some scares with hawks in the yard before but always managed to intervene. Today we did not notice the attack until it was too late. I just wanted to make a...
  11. M

    A peaceful and comfortable death for my old hen :(

    Hello all, I am posting to seek advice on how to make sure my lovely chicken, Silky, will have a comfortable departure. The picture of Silky (brown hen on the left) enjoying the snow! Just a back story: It was only 2 days ago when I noticed something was off (she was leaning against the wall...
  12. B

    Chinese quail dead

    I hatched chixks from incubator and when they were about 3 week old, someone can to buy off me. They came and took 2 of the quail out of the 27, when they got home in the car, both eventually passed away at night. what could be the reason for this. Maybe travel sick, stress???
  13. Phantom_k9

    Need Help Identifying Possible Sickness...

    Hello We just lost our youngest roo today, and I am now trying to figure out what happened. I made a post during the ordeal, which you can find here https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/emergency-bird-asleep-in-coop-might-have-gotten-too-cold.1425439/ He had been puffed up for the last day...
  14. 5

    Will My Hen Survive?? Soft Eggs, Impacted Crop....

    Hello everyone, My Rosie was helped 2 weeks ago...You can read about it by clicking --> here My Rosie was fine laying and an empty crop, up until Saturday morning.... That morning she had an impacted crop and was acting slow. So, I automatically restricted her free ranging, gave her olive oil...
  15. G

    A cat issue?

    Over the past 2 weeks, we've come outside to dead chickens, some without their head and neck, some with only half of their body eaten, others dried up, and some with just the structure of the wings and feathers left. I've done many research as to who the predator could be, since we fence our...
  16. Jordan01

    Hen found dead next to egg

    All 3 of my girls were killed by a dog allowed to roam in my neighborhood. After everything I went to where I found their bodies and found an egg right where one was killed, it had a soft shell. Did she lay it right before or after she died? I can't find any info on this. I know it wasn't ripped...
  17. BrOwOke

    My Duck lost her mate and I need some advice

    (This is my first post on here and I hope I’m doing this right) Almost two moths ago an animal got in and attacked my two Peking ducks, Kevin, the male and Shia LaDuck, the female. We took them to the vet and they got patched up. Turns out after they were all healed up and given the ok to go...
    • BrOwOke
    • Thread
    • advice needed confused duck owner death duck female duck help needed introduce new duck lonely duck sad duck shia laduck
    • Replies: 8
    • Forum: Ducks
  18. StardustChicken

    Identifing mystery predator *GRAPHIC PHOTOS*

    I had 19 chicks, various breeds (silkie, buff laced polish, dominique, gold laced wyandotte, rhode island red): 15 of them 4 weeks, the other 4 between 5-6½ weeks (leghorn, ISA brown, 2 midnight majesty maran). This morning I found 2 of my 4 week silkies dead and one of my dominiques was missing...
  19. buffy-the-eggpile-layer

    My Experience Fighting Egg Yolk Peritonitis

    2 weeks ago, my favorite hen--a tiny 17-month old EE named "Easter" (creative, I know)--was diagnosed with EYP. She didn't have the classic presentation: swollen belly, fluffed up behavior, weight loss, etc., but was diagnosed via x-ray. Initially, I brought her to the vet because a soft-shell...
  20. T

    Sudden Death ;-;

    New here and sorry this had to be my first post. I’m really distraught right now and I’m trying to rationalize what happened and wondered if anyone here had this kinda thing happen. Earlier today saw that my four month old rooster silkie had been pooped on *he sleeps under the perches...
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