head trauma

Hello, I’m raising some chicks and have been having some issues with this run. I have my ayam cemani and polish together as they grew way faster than the silkie chicks. I was treating them with corid and they seemed to do better so I then started to give them vitamin supplements immediately...

Hey there, first time chick mom here. I bought a flock of 8 chicks (laying hens) One of them I noticed had a scab of some sort on it’s head, pretty big. Looks dried up. Not sure when or how it happened as she came like that. She is eating and drinking but will not stop loudly cheeping. Also she...

Hi, my Serama hen has recently hatched her first clutch of eggs 3 chicks, they are happy healthy and adorable. But Yesterday while on my morning feeding rounds I noticed something off with mama. She acted sleepy and had one eye open one closed her head cocked a little and when I touched her head...

Hi my coop door fell and hit my 9 month old Blue Polish Hen in the head - when i found her, she was still, then trying to move very wobbly and her head wobbled. She went to the back of my A frame coop and stayed for hours still, and then got out and walked around. I tried to give her food, and...

So my 5 year old Easter Egger was picked up by my mother about 2.5 ft. above the ground before she fidgeted and tumbled out of her arms, and landed on her back in the grass and rolled over onto her feet. I examined her face and neck area and she seemed perfectly fine - no signs of injury as far...

My 8 week old chick accidentally found its way into the "Big Chicken Coop" :( My babies free range in the afternoon and I have no idea how it happened, but when I found her she was in the corner of the coop hiding her head and neck and on deaths door. It was horrible and I was in shock, as was...

I am new to button quails and need some help! The female in one of my pairs is either sick, injured or both. Ok so i'm just going to follow the format of the pinned post... 1) Button quail/chinese painted quail, female, aprox 2.5 months old, not sure her weight but she seems thinner than my...

I went to check on our small flock of 9 week old Silver Appleyard ducks late this afternoon, and one had considerable blood on her bill and head. On further inspection, there was trauma to the lower right corner of the bill and numerous vertical (bleeding) scratch marks on the bill. There was...