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  1. K

    SOS SICK 14 WEEK OLD CHICKEN

    I walked out to the coop to see one of my cream leg bars just nestled up on the coop floor. They like to do that sometimes so I didn’t think much of it until she didn’t get up when I came next to her and touched her. I tried to get her to stand and she was weak and wobbly. She just seems SO...
  2. M

    9 already dead not sure why

    Hello, I will start this off by saying this is NOT my flock, but a friends. I told her I would reach out here to get some opinions. She started off by telling me that she had a hen that she thought had sour crop and she gave it ACV and it died in the process. A few days later she was...
    • Maka
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    • chicken help dying birds emercency emergencies emergencies / diseases / injuries and cures help ill chicken sickness droopy wings sickness help sos
    • Replies: 1
    • Forum: Emergencies / Diseases / Injuries and Cures
  3. F

    Chick limping swollen knee

    Chick is motivated to eat and drink but it's limping since this morning and it's knee area is swollen and red! I tried to seperate it from the flock but it starts chirping loud and tries to get out so I don't want it to stress out more. It puts weight on it sometimes very lightly and I don't...
  4. C

    Sneezing/honking with open mouth Araucana

    She’s 27 weeks old, hasn’t started laying yet. Video attached because I have no idea what she is going through. She’s eating and drinking. She’s pooping. I’m in New Zealand where it’s summer at the moment and gapeworm is rare. Regardless I’ll worm her today anyway but I wondered if anyone has...
  5. Q

    Duck left behind this winter in southwest Missouri

    Hello all! There is a beautiful medium sized duck that has been left behind by his usual brown and green flock. I’ve lived here for years, I always joke wondering if he/she knows they look different from all the other ducks they hang with — they always leave&come back to the pond but this year...
  6. M

    Quail SOS

    Hello, This is my first time hatching out a lot of quail. I had one that fell into its water. The dish the water is in is a very low dish so they don’t drown. But one fell into it and got wet. It was placed in an incubator to warm up again and it seemed to be doing fine until I saw its...
    • Maka
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    • baby quail injured chick #1 chick help help quail quail help save baby quail sos
    • Replies: 1
    • Forum: Quail
  7. myaijones962

    Possible Coryza?

    I have a flock of over 100 birds, a lot of time and money has gone into these birds. We have a few experiencing a swollen eye, only on one side. I treated the entire flock with oxytetracycline (1cc per gallon water) for 5 days, then seperated the ones showing symptoms and I'm continuing...
  8. J

    Deathly ill chicken. Please help!

    My hen is around 3-4 years of age, and is very sick. Her symptoms include lethargy, floppy shrunken purple comb, green diarrhea (as shown in second image), neck spasms/twitches, and consistent throwing up liquid when she bends over. The nearby vet clinic open until September. We might put her...
  9. C

    Please help! Slipped tendon too far gone?

    https://ibb.co/zfyzxqs https://ibb.co/Jy0dtWk https://ibb.co/ZJQNCBz this baby is about 24 hours old. I fear she has a slip tendon or rotated femur. She constantly gets stuck on her back and has lots of trouble eating and drinking without complete assistance. I’m worried she’s in pain as she...
    • Commongroundcultivation
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    • #quail chick help please advise rescue slipped achilles tendon sos splay leg tendon tendon injury
    • Replies: 1
    • Forum: Quail
  10. H

    Chicken suffering from Vitamin B deficiency/chicken sling

    it’s been about 2 weeks i’d say now. Boots my cochin mix chicken, was unable to walk one morning. So i immediately brought her inside and set up a chicken box for her. It went from her being able to jump out of the box and wake up next to me to her not being able to move at all. She definitely...
  11. D

    Where can I get one duck?

    Hey! So... I have 3 young ducks and want to get one more. I've integrated flocks before, so I know what I am doing. The only thing is, I can't find anywhere that will let me buy just one duck, but I don't have room in my pen/ coop for 5. Any suggestions on where U can get just one? I'm also...
    • dory_mold
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    • duck duck store help i need one duck one duck sos
    • Replies: 2
    • Forum: Ducks
  12. AuroraS2

    URGENT: Cayuga Egg Hatch Advice?

    Please help- first timer here. Have three cayuga eggs here on day 28 of the hatch. Two no movement, no veins visible (suspected dead in shell), one was moving this morning when candled, this evening I candled it first time from above to check for the air sac (which was there, pointy shape...
  13. graypes

    worried about BOTULISM: Duck swam in Dirty Water (with dead animals). Help

    SO my pool cover partially blew off ( I guess today) and I came out around 4 to my female ducks alarm quacks. Sure enough her boo, the drake, was down in the 4" of nasty nasty water. There were live toads and what looked like bug larvae (the red kind) and then... DEAD DECOMPOSING MOLES..... I...
  14. graypes

    HELP Duck Eggs day 27 still "shadowing"

    They are so close to internally pipping but they are all still moving against the inner membrane. My incubation was too humid early on so I ran it dry for the last week (around 25%) to grow the air cells but now I'm really worried that they're shrink-wrapped. Humidity inside the hatcher is...
  15. D

    Favus in silkie bantam rooster? Or another disease?

    I have a 10/11 month old silkie bantam rooster and noticed over the past week or two white chalky and flaky developing on his comb. In some areas there is little black specs but no raised lesions. He seems normal with the same amount of energy and the only thing wrong we noticed was this...
  16. S

    Silkie Hen with Respitory Issues SOS

    Hi there, So I have a beautiful silkie hen who is my main paint breeder. She has recently had a sneeze but I assumed it was because of the cold weather and it’s off and on temperature (warm cold warm cold). Today I noticed she has begun to get foamy/bubbly eyes and I immediately brought her...
  17. graypes

    HELP! Oral antibiotic administering for a difficult duck!!!

    I’m at my wit’s end! I have 2 Runner Ducks (3mo old) and theyve got some sort of Respiratory bug that the vet prescribed oral antibiotics for! PROBLEM IS, one of the ducks handled it okay, but i could tell some dribbled back out. The other one though..... bless her heart. I watched every bideo...
    • graypes
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    • difficult duck oral antibiotics sos
    • Replies: 35
    • Forum: Ducks
  18. CarlaD87

    Seemingly Healthy Ducklings Dying!

    Hi there! I had 9 duck eggs incubating. 8 of them had hatched as of Saturday night (2 minimally assisted, 6 hatched completely unassisted). It is now Monday night, and 4 of those ducklings have died. 2 deaths were the 2 assists, and I can understand why they may have died. The other 2 were the...
    • CarlaD87
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    • advice duckling ducklings dying help sos sudden death
    • Replies: 9
    • Forum: Ducks
  19. Missjlee4377

    First time hatcher, first rotten egg.

    Forgive me if this has already been addressed (as I'm positive it has) but I just have such a time navigating this app... This is my first hatch! Last one in was a rotten egg I guess... I found it really late last night in the incubator (of course it was one of only four blue eggs...)its been...
  20. CourtCalee

    Duckling Assisted Hatch SOS

    Hi All, I have some Pekin/Mallard cross ducklings that i have been incubating. I am on Day 32 and while they were still alive I felt like I needed to investigate why they had not pipped internally. I have broken open the air cell only to find that they are ALL upside down (I now know this is...
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