sudden death

  1. M

    Please help. 2 ducks dead in under a month???

    so last night around 1 AM I walked outside and checked on the ducks and my one brown duck was just floating in the water dead and my three Pekin ducks were swimming around him seeming stressed out. This is just extremely odd to me because at 6 PM. The brown duck was in the water swimming happily...
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  2. Optimus Pollo

    Feather mites or something worse?

    I have a large flock 33 hens and 2 roosters. Some of them started having a strange loss of feathers as seen in the pictures. It usually starts on their back near the tail and very slowly (weeks-months) gets worse with the loss traveling up the back. Some birds also had feather loss on top of the...
  3. Toodles

    Unexplained death in two young hens

    In June I bought 4 ISA browns, and 3 Amberlinks who were hatched on April 8th from the feed store. Only one Amberlink out of these 7 has been laying since she was 19 weeks old. Two weeks ago two of my 25 week old hens, an ISA brown, and an Amberlink, got under the coop one evening and would not...
  4. OliveGreen

    Please Help! 😭 2 ducks have died & now 3rd one is also sick with a bleeding prolapse

    Hi poultry lovers, It’s a long time since I’ve posted here, but I’m in desperate need of help and would really appreciate any thoughts or advice you can offer. Almost 3 weeks ago I found one of our young female ducks (Daisy) with an oviduct prolapse. I took her straight to the avian vet that...
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    • Forum: Ducks
  5. OliveGreen

    Please Help! 😭 2 ducks have died & now 3rd one is also sick with a bleeding prolapse

    Hi poultry lovers, It’s a long time since I’ve posted here, but I’m in desperate need of help and would really appreciate any thoughts or advice you can offer. Almost 3 weeks ago I found one of our young female ducks (Daisy) with an oviduct prolapse. I took her straight to the avian vet that...
  6. S

    Dying birds

    Hello again. I have had two white silkie hens die recently. One a few days ago, and one today. I also had another hen that I believe to have had mareks. The silkies were healthy until they weren’t. Suddenly having seizures and neurological issues. All their symptoms had pointed to a vitamin E...
  7. Ash56

    3 dead suddenly. Now a few are sick.

    The other night we had a 14 week old female leghorn die, for seemingly no reason. The Ring camera went off and I looked and she was just standing there. Kept watching and she starting flapping uncontrollably and flipping around and eventually fell over and died. We were sad but just figured she...
  8. A

    Chicken sudden death – what could be the cause?

    One of my chickens has just died, and I have no idea why. Bernadette was bought from the local poultry merchant in June, along with three other youngsters. She was always very flighty and frightened. She was initially very frightened of my older chickens - and with good reason, since the four...
  9. 3speckled3

    Sudden Duckling Death

    I recently bought a few ducklings from Tractor Supply. They are around 4 weeks old. I checked on them about 2 hours prior and everyone appeared fine, so I was surprised to find one dead. The duckling was lying on the ground, and had blood coming out of one nostril and a few droplets around the...
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    • duckling sudden death
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  10. AmberCamilia

    Sudden death

    Hey everyone. I hope all is well with each of you. I’m curious if anyone has experienced anything like what happened to me today. I picked up one my ducks (2 y/o female Pekin, seemingly healthy) to clean some fluff out of her nostrils. She didn’t really enjoy being held, so she flapped her...
  11. MissGreenJeans

    Sudden death of 2-yr old, seemingly healthy hen

    Hi, fellow chicken keepers. I’m hoping for some advice about next steps after my first loss. Grit, my 2-year old olive egger, died suddenly 3 days ago while I was out of town. When my pet sitter went out just after dark to lock up the coop, she found Grit lying on her side in the run, dead but...
  12. Tribute: "Little Timmy"- Youtube Star & Farm Therapy Pet

    Tribute: "Little Timmy"- Youtube Star & Farm Therapy Pet

    Little Timmy was a Micro Serama (smallest chicken breed in the world). He was hatched in my backyard in Idaho. I was technically in city limits when I hatched him, I was just getting away with it! This is his story.... Timmy (the name he "grew" into) was not even on my radar when selecting...
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  13. B

    Salmon faverolle heat stroke?

    Hi everyone, I am morning two of my salmon faverolle who suddenly passed over the last 2 days. I live in the Sacramento area and we are in a heat wave with temperatures hitting 108 yesterday. My hens are about a year old and the first one passed on the roost, we discovered her in the morning...
  14. georgiegoose

    Silkie sudden death - no apparent cause

    Hi, Today we sadly lost one of our silkies out of the blue with no clear cause, disease, or injury. She was one of our healthiest (at least we thought) and seemed to be doing well. She was happily interacting with the flock this morning, eating and moving about as usual. This afternoon she...
  15. T

    3 day old cornish cross chicks dying suddenly???

    We raise Cornish Cross every year for 4 years, in batches of at least 100 twice a year. We picked up our chicks from the hatchery on 5/17/23, today is 5/20/23 and we have lost close to 15 so far. No idea what's going on and we have never lost this many so early. In fact we normally don't even...
  16. I am Katsu

    Sudden death of healthy chicks

    Today I woke up and when I checked my chicks they were all running around playing. I went to go change their water since it had woodchips on it (I always use purified water for them). After I came back I noticed one started falling down to the ground and kicking It's legs uncontrollably. The...
  17. A

    free-range chicks dying randomly?

    I have 5 - 10 week old egyptian fayoumis and brown leghorns chicks who free-range. I've heard these breeds are suppose to be great free-rangers but some have died without any sign of sickness, attack, or anything. I let them roam around when I'm outside but if I turn my back for a few minutes...
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  18. Flutterbudget

    Sudden Pekin Death, Heartbroken

    My partner went to let the ducks out this morning and found my 4 year old female Pekin dead. Her neck is definitely not straight and she’s died with her legs flat out underneath her stomach. Nothing that I can see, one eye is closed the other is open, pupil seems to be dilated. Absolutely...
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    • Forum: Ducks
  19. kanami

    my hen dropped dead :(

    i was at work today, went on my break to see one of my younger siblings texted me from home saying one of our chickens wasn’t responding, i called and they were freaking out. so my mother went outside and was digging a hole in the yard when in her peripheral vision she saw a bird just hit the...
  20. MolliMonster99

    My hen died and I don't know why.

    My family had 3 hens: Flora, Fauna and Merryweather. I named them all and welcomed them into our flock with open arms. They are 17 months old and we believe they are ISA Browns, although we aren't sure as we got them from a school hatching programme. Last night I went to put everyone to bed...
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