malnourished

  1. Kalthia

    Malnourished...It is the feed....?

    It's 5am on Sunday and I can't sleep because I have been worried about my first sick hen all week. She started limping and stopped being able to walk. (You can find several posts from me earlier on this across forums trying to puzzle this out). We took her to the vet last week, and the vet said...
  2. HoneydewTears

    Chick with Lots of Mucus Sleeping a lot Not Eating

    One of the malnourished chicks I took in suddenly became ill. She has a lot of mucus in her mouth at times, which is clear, and it soaks her pillow when she sleeps. She sleeps a lot and can’t warm herself up so I’ve had her wrapped in a blanket. When I first brought her inside yesterday, she...
  3. MangoDuck

    Lone Muscovy duckling, should I help it?

    Hey everyone! So, I was out yesterday, and I saw a malnourished looking Muscovy duckling. He had the feathering of a month and a half old duck, but he was the size of a three week old. I looked around for a mom, or some siblings, but I didn’t see anyone with his colouring (he’s light grey, the...
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  4. T

    Went to go buy ducklings and it was disturbing..

    So there was this guy selling muscovies on Craigslist and today we went to go get some. $15 a piece when they're typically only around $5 here. So we get there and go to the guys backyard and well let me just say what I saw broke my heart. Their living area is so so awful. It's very dirty. Their...
  5. cluelesschickmother

    Starved chicks... one dead and one with enlarged crop!!

    I will preface by saying that I am really screwed up... I start with the story of what happened and end with my plead for help. We purchased two three week old splash silkie chicks to add to our flock of juvenile silkies from a wonderful small local hatchery. They supplied us with what we...
  6. M

    Sick Pekin Duck

    I have a female pekin for about two months. This morning she was not walking right so i began giving her niacin in food and water right away. she also had two broken blood feathers which i pulled out and cleaned up for her most likely from my male pekin trying to mate? i’m not sure. but she...
  7. MercyHomested

    How can I help my duckling that won’t eat and can’t keep his head up no more

    My husband and me got 3 duckling some weeks ago and up until a week or so things where great. They all got tired and sluggish but after some bathes and greasy air two of them have gotten the spring back in their feet and is healthy, happy duckling. but the last one is not doing well. We can’t...
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