emergencies

  1. Countryhippie

    Strange Breathing Tonight - Please Help

    I was hanging out with my girls right before bed and they were all running around playing and I gave them a dish of their feed with water mixed in (so mash). Then I put them to bed and all was normal. I then looked on my camera to see if they had all settled down and then I see they are all like...
  2. D

    EMERGENCY! Muscovy Nest Emptied. Can The Eggs be Put Back?

    Writing this fast, so pardon any grammar errors. This is the situation: Late this March, Jamboree (my female duck of a drake-hen pair) began laying, and soon after became broody. I don't know if she had ever laid/hatched before since I bought her as an adult, but she was super faithful about...
    • DuckyMolly
    • Thread
    • broody duck disturbed nest emergencies emergency muscovy muscovy eggs muscovy nest
    • Replies: 3
    • Forum: Ducks
  3. C

    Please Help! Rooster with big lump/cyst in throat area

    Please help! Any thoughts on what this cyst/ lump in throat area may be? Appreciate any suggestions on how to cure/control.
  4. S

    Help with our bantam — Nothing is working

    Hi there, Never posted on here before so forgive me if I'm not doing this correctly. We have a polish bantam hen that has been a consistently good layer (this is her first year laying), very energetic, very spunky, and our favorite chicken. A few days ago, we found her before night chores...
  5. J

    Chicken Is Sick Help!

    Three days ago i noticed that one of my chickens wasn’t eating too much and wasnt walking for most of the day.This has been occuring for the past 3 days and she has been eating very little but still drinking water.She has just been standing still or on the roost for most of the day and it seems...
  6. robbyvg

    Duck Call/Signal: Emergencies that Need Help!

    I would suggest that we in this forum have a sticky thread that serves as a digital ER - at least the best we can. It should be a sticky because I have seen too many emergency threads not get the attention they need simply because, in their distress, folks can't verbalize and be descriptive...
    • robbyvg
    • Thread
    • duck emergencies duckling ducklings ducks emergencies medical questions
    • Replies: 3
    • Forum: Ducks
  7. chikins

    Sebright Hen Sick

    Hi all, I have a 4 1/2 month old se right hen who recently fell ill and I have no idea what to do. Found bloody poop 2 weeks ago and treated everyone with corid for 5 days, now a week later symptoms are still present so we’re treating again. However, two days ago my se right started panting...
  8. 6

    Depluming Mite Infestation?!

    Fall 2020 two of my hens had a hard molt, while one lost feathers around her neck. The two hens who hard molted, grew their feathers back like normal, within a few months. However, my featherless necked hen didn’t grow her feathers back. In fact, she lost a bit more around her wing shoulder...
    • 624444
    • Thread
    • depluming mites disease cures disease question emergencies featherless help anyone😰😰😰😭😭 mites parasites treatment and care
    • Replies: 3
    • Forum: Emergencies / Diseases / Injuries and Cures
  9. F

    Found a pigeon with a broken leg

    Found a hurt undomesticated pigeon underneath a car. It's left leg is broken/splayed. The nearest wildlife rehabilitation center already has 300 pigeons in care -- for this pigeon to be accepted, I'll have to issue a $100 donation. Splint surgery at an animal hospital is also costly. I would...
    • faymine
    • Thread
    • broken leg emergencies emergencies / diseases / injuries and cures help
    • Replies: 4
    • Forum: Pigeons and Doves
  10. I

    Please help quail with bent neck and (apparent) seizure

    My quail was doing fine this morning, but this noon I found him having something like a seizure and has bent neck (it’s like 180 degree turned clockwise). after a few min she recovered, but after half an hour she did this again and have fluffed feathers. apparant she can stand, but can’t walk...
  11. SubourbonChicken

    HELP! QUAIL ATE BAD WORMS!!!!!

    My Coturnix Quail hen was accidentally fed putrid mealworms! Some canned mealworms (mealworms canned in juice from petstore for birds and reptiles) had been left out for a few days at least and a nephew got a hold of them and fed them to the quail! These worms were pretty bad. I fear the...
  12. 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
  13. beebesknees

    Help. Leg bending outward.

    Hi all. I just got chicks a week ago and everything was going great but then this afternoon I noticed one of my chicks was walking with her left leg pointing out. She was the strongest of the chicks until today. It does not appear to be splay leg since the other is perfect and from her hip to...
  14. lilmillefleur

    help - prolapse - will these work?

    TSC is fairly close by, but I was wondering if we can use any of these things around the house to help out our pullet (profile) right now. She can poop, and it seems to go in and out but we still are worried. - expired Neosporin - saline wound wash spray (gentle, no burning/stinging) -...
  15. V

    Head Injury on Baby Chicks- Open Wound. Help!!

    Hey guys. I am new to chicken raising but long story short... I have 3 egg laying hens and 2 baby chicks (about 3 weeks old) raised them since they were days old. One of my adult hens seems to be very territorial, and has plucked the feathers out of one of my other adult ones. They've been...
  16. G

    1 Week Old Chick Dying HELP!

    Hello I am new to this community and am a first time chicken raiser. I just bought four, 1 day old chicks a week ago, and put them in a box with a heat lamp, bedding, and food and water. Everything was going well until I noticed one of my chicks, the biggest actually, was not acting like her...
  17. Tylerblockbuster

    Baby chick with eye problem

    My baby chick is 2 weeks old and developed this eye problem last week. I have been trying to heal it since it happened and has sense worsened I dont know what it is or how to fix it so any advice would help. It is very crusty and he keeps scratching it
  18. Nelson-Collier

    🚨 Potential Dying Hen? Help??!

    (Pictures provided below.) One of my 7 laying hens has been extremely lethargic and listless for the past couple of days. I first noticed it when I let them out the other day to roam while supervised (I have a large caged in run I keep them in, adequate feed and water). After they all ran out...
    • Nelson-Collier
    • Thread
    • #blackhead #turkeypoult #sickness #hen #sickhen #lathargic blackhead blackhead treatment coccidiose coccidiosis emergencies emergencies-diseases-injuries-and-cures emergency sick 2 year old hen
    • Replies: 66
    • Forum: Emergencies / Diseases / Injuries and Cures
  19. V

    My chick has a numb tongue? HELP!

    My 3-4 month old chick was beaten up badly yesterday after her siblings attacked her and pecked him badly around the head and neck. Her wounds are VERY bad and she has been pretty weak so we’ve been feeding her some food mixed with water. While feeding her, we noticed that her tongue kept...
  20. O

    injection injury

    Injected antibiotics into young birds (chicks 4-5 weeks) with a larger needle than I usually use. I lost 2 almost instantly and one is now gasping and wheezing and running backwards.... the sound it is making is almost a gasping/squeaking wheeze? No crackling or rails and lungs sound clear.. no...
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