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  1. Viergacht

    Suddenly strange-acting, cold, limp hen - please help!

    Hi folks, I'd appreciate any help or suggestions. Situation is this: Raquel is a 10 month old Barred Rock hen. We keep the chickens in a large back yard with access to their henhouse and the back porch, which is roofed. She seemed in perfect health at noon. We've been having heavy rain all day...
  2. My Pretty Pekins

    URGENT! Cockerel Problems

    Hey, We have a young cockerel (about 17 months) who is moulting and is rather raggedy around the neck and for some reason has over the past 2 days become very weak. He hardly crows, and has stopped calling for hens to come and get food, he eats it himself. He hardly has anything in his crop but...
  3. D

    Is my grand duck dying?

    Hello all. I hate to have met under these terms. My teen had to have a duck for her burthday back in April after I said No for 2 years. Fastforward, we have 2 ducks. Mom (drake mallard) and Pip (female). Pip laid a batch of 10 eggs last month. Never sat on them. Hasnt laid since then. She has...
  4. R

    New chicken - is she sick?? Help!

    Hi all, Three days ago I bought a new silkie and araucana from a local breeder. We have a flock of 10 other birds (bantams, silkies, polish, rhode island reds). The araucana appears to have settled in fine, although still getting pecked a bit, however I am really worried about the new silkie...
  5. E

    Ill Quail

    Hi, this is my first post and I'm a new user so forgive me if I didn't write this properly. Open to suggestions to improve. I have 2 female silver quails about a year old and 1 one them bullied the other when I first got them. I had them in my bird cage temporarily until I bought a big cage for...
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    • bullied bullied bird help please ill illness leg paralysed quail sick urgent
    • Replies: 2
    • Forum: Quail
  6. Ourpeeps123

    Chick is Smaller Than Others

    Hi! I got 6 chicks the other day from TSC. There are two Ameraucanas, two silver laced Wyandottes, and two Penedesencas. One of the Penedesencas is a lot smaller than all of the other chicks and stands in the corner while the others scratch the shavings. She also seems to sleep often. We just...
  7. JuneJ58732

    Rooster acting strange and has green poop

    Hello, my rooster hasn't been himself lately. I've been keeping an eye on him, but I'm worried I haven't taken this as seriously as I should have. Symptoms: He seems to be a bit lethargic: He isn't crowing nearly as much as he used to. He seems "down". Green poop: I've noticed in his...
  8. S

    Help diagnosing ducklings please

    Hey all we have a number of 5 week old ducklings that have been doing good up until now. This morning 3 of them where acting super lethargic, head back, little twitches unable to stand. One of them was even on it's back with laborered breathing. Weve gotten em inside warmed up and even tube fed...
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    • diagnose help duck ill
    • Replies: 11
    • Forum: Ducks
  9. CookieErnie

    panting duck?!!! don't think she's hot

    hi! I have two ducklings, just about 4 weeks old, one runner and one pekin. The Pekin pants now and then and I'm always able to help her stop panting by cooling her down (giving her cool water, running a fan in the living room where their brooder is). Today she just won't stop panting and I'm...
  10. GracieJ

    Help! My duck is unwell! Can’t walk and won’t eat.

    One night I discovered one of my drake, Riddick, couldn’t walk very well so I assumed he had sprained a leg and put him in his pool for some physio and rest. After putting them to bed, the next morning he couldn’t walk at all!! We took him to the vets and she gave him antibiotics (baytril) and...
  11. Sire12

    Hen is badly egg bound or something similar please help

    I didn't know what it was until yesterday but she had been showing symptoms for a few days before that, then when I realised what it was I learned what to do I brought her inside and let her nest in a basin with shavings, and gave her the bath with epsom salts, I didn't have any calcium pills...
  12. Puckaster

    Is this molting or something else?

    Hello. After being broody and hatching chicks 4 weeks ago, my hen has been losing a lot of feathers. Everyday the run is covered in them. She's lost a lot around her neck and there also seems to be a lot of dandruff (skin dust). She hasn't really put much weight on since being broody and is a...
  13. Puckaster

    Molting illness or other?

    Hello. So I've just seen today my leghorn has an extremely muddy rear end. It looks as though she's dust bathed but the mud has form dread looks and is all matting in to the feathers. She looks a right state. This is my first year keeping chicken so Its all new to me. Is this molting or sign or...
  14. P

    Please help! Peacock with worms?

    A peacock came up to our house about 2 months ago and has stayed here ever since. We began feeding him food we bought at our local feed store and also giving him water. About a week ago, we began noticing that he opened his mouth frequently to breath. A few days later it appeared that he was...
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    • gapeworm gasping ill ivermectin peacock sick worms
    • Replies: 12
    • Forum: Peafowl
  15. D

    5 MONTH OLD CHICKEN LOOKING VERY UNWELL

    So I had some silkies hatch in May and the smallest one has since grown suddenly ill. This morning I let them all out and all but her came out, at first I thought she'd been hurt so I checked her legs and body and wings and all seemed fine. I then put her on the ground and instead of hopping off...
  16. D

    **HELP CHICKS UNWELL URGENT**

    So I'm on my second lot of chicks hatching, the mother kicked three to death by mistake (or so I hope) and so i seperated them, now I just noticed that all of the chicks have a large growth on their chests! What is this?? Are they okay?? They all seem fine, no distress and they're all eating and...
  17. chicksonline

    Poorly baby chick

    my chick hatched about 3 hours ago but is very pale flimbsy andbhasent opened her eyes yet whilst the on who was born at about the same time is pink active and dances around!! Pictures attached What could be wrong with her
  18. H

    1 of my chickens have died and the next is looking ill. Please Help

    Thank you for reading, Unfortunately one of our hens died almost a month ago, she was a hybrid about 3 and a half years old. Her comb was very pale and she would just stand with her eyes closed not joining in with the other chickens and not eating or drinking. Another one of our hens of the...
  19. HuskerHens18

    Very ill chickens

    I was gone for FOUR days, and in that short span of time all hell has broke loose. I'm losing chickens like crazy with no symptoms, and now today there are symptoms and I don't know what to do. I had one hen sent in to the University and nobody has called or emailed back yet. Ages range from...
  20. G

    Sick chicken full of liquid

    We had a chicken who seemed quite ill and we decided it was best to put her down. Apon dissection to investigate the cause, she was full of yellow liquid. Maybe 500ml worth. We did note that she was oddly heavy. Can anyone explain what happened? Our other two chickens are normal and healthy...
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