underweight

  1. sillyduckz

    how to help my duck gain weight?

    hi all! i need some help regarding my runner girl Reptar. she is a very lively and spry duck, but she is just a little too skinny for my liking. i know there is naturally some variation in the shapes and sizes of ducks, especially with runners, but her keel bone is very easily felt on her belly...
    • sillyduckz
    • Thread
    • advice appreciated duck help underweight
    • Replies: 4
    • Forum: Ducks
  2. D

    Please help! My duck is really sick and has been for awhile now, but we aren’t able to find out the exact problem and we can’t seem to find a solution

    We’ve been to the doctors, but they couldn’t find out what’s wrong with her even with the blood tests and all. We’ve tried putting her on antibiotics given by the doctors (Meloxicam) and it helped, but didn’t solve the problem. She’s had this problem for months and it’s getting worse. We’re...
  3. CloneFly

    1wk old quail breathing fast

    Hello all, so I had hatched out 6 Coturnix quail mixes about a week ago and I noticed right away that one if the babies was breathing faster than everyone else and rather lethargic. I gave her some B12 and water, called it a night and she's made it up to now. She still breathes quite fast, she's...
  4. horselove

    Partial paralysis, among other symptoms, help diagnose!

    Today I noticed a hen that could not use one leg. She also has a purple-black tinge around the edge of her comb, as well as a prominent keel and fluid in her abdomen, plus missing feathers around her butt despite being at the top of the pecking order and lately she has had weak eggs, but all the...
  5. Solemn Opossum

    Help! 4 day old duckling still hasn’t eaten, has yolk attached, and stomach is growling. Weighs 24 grams

    I found my duckling Little Foot back on the 15th. I went to the run to return a baby I had hatched (its shell had been badly broken and I repaired and incubated it {foreshadowing}) and saw a little duckling not moving. I picked her up and saw her yolk was still attached. My girl Eyebrows is a...
  6. Hannahnic14

    Leghorn wouldn't come out of the coop this morning. Feels very underweight

    1) What type of bird , age and weight (does the chicken seem or feel lighter or thinner than the others.) She is a 18 week old, pearl white leghorn. Not laying yet. She feels very very thin compared to the others 2) What is the behavior, exactly. She wouldn't come out of the coop this morning...
  7. Blizzkona

    Throwing head back to breathe?

    My 4 month old silkie chick just started wheezing a little bit today, and she's been breathing with her beak open and throwing her head back. She's also sleepier than normal and has barely eaten anything. She's drinking well though. I don't really want to put her on anything else since she's...
  8. Blizzkona

    Selenium for wry neck

    I just got liquid selenium for my 4 month silkie to help her absorb all the vitamin E she's getting, but I have no way of measuring the correct dosage. I know selenium is highly toxic if a chicken gets too much. The bottle has a dropper but no labels. Anyone have any advice? I'm supposed to give...
  9. Australorp94

    Impacted Crop (Crop Surgery)

    Hi BYC community. I have a chicken with an impacted crop. I've been trying to get the impaction to pass, but I'm having a hard time. Massaging the crop and a mild laxative called Dulcolax aren't working. Any advice would be greatly appreciated. I think I'm getting to the point where crop surgery...
  10. A

    Sickly geese

    I’ve had two ganders for about four years now and they’re great. But this summer they started looking off. They are super underweight and their beaks turn white. For the beaks I assumed it was calcium and added powder to their corn. Which helped but sometimes they still go white. I’ve given...
    • Avian Allie
    • Thread
    • geese help sickly geese skinny thin underweight white beak
    • Replies: 23
    • Forum: Geese
  11. L

    Alternative to layer's pellets for sick chicken

    Hi, Apologies for posting yet again looking for advice. Bo the hen has Egg peritonitis at the moment and is currently living in a roomy box with food and water indoors on vet's advice while getting treated with antinflammatories and antibiotics. She's also pretty skinny (very prominent keel...
  12. R3M1X

    Swollen foot. ADVICE PLEASE~~

    So I have a light brahma. She is 7.5 weeks old and at first the issue was that she was being pushed away from the food and has become severely underweight and is 3× smaller than her two sisters of the same breed and age and even smaller than the smallest breeds I have that are a week younger...
  13. Blazel

    New Chicken enlarged chest mass, skin growth, deep puncture wound, twisted toes

    Hello, We just picked up a new chicken tonight, we got her as she was being bullied by her flock, the other chickens wouldn't let her roost or eat and were pinning her down to pull her feathers out. She's just over a year old, hy-line chicken. When we saw her we immediately agreed to take her...
  14. June Chick

    How to get chickens to gain weight?

    My chickens have access to unlimited food, but they’re all underweight. They’re fed Dumor layer pellets with veggie/fruit scraps, grass, weeds, and bugs. What will help them gain weight? Their keel/breastbone is prominent, but they’re all being fed well.
  15. ChickenMama308

    Egg Yolk Peritonitis Diagnosis - does she have a chance?

    Hi everyone, so 10/27 I took Nani to the vet and sadly received an EYP diagnosis, exactly 3 weeks after I discovered something was off with her and along the way I've treated her for many different things trying to rule it all out. (She is a 2.5 y/o RIR who free ranges 24/7 and I don't even see...
  16. ChickenMama308

    Impacted crop on a severely underweight hen - how to treat?

    Hi everyone! My sweet hen Nani (2 years old rhode island red hen) has been through a lot these past few weeks, and where we're at now, is an impacted crop. She's eating very little, but still managing to eat a bit of spinach. Overall low / sleepy energy and staying in one place mostly...
  17. ChickenMama308

    Severly underweight - please help! Cocci / diarrhea

    It's been quite a journey with Nani (2 years old rhode island red hen) - it's been about 2.5 weeks of lethargy, no-low appetite, sleepiness, etc. Her poops looked normal in the beginning so I didn't believe it was coccidiosis (I now know that blood doesn't always show in this case) but I wanted...
  18. Laurmullen87

    My first poorly Hen

    Please Help, I am having a hard time trying to help my poorly hen. She is an Araucana And about 2 years old but I have only had her for 3 months. When I got her, all the feathers were missing from her back (her previous owner told me she was picked on by one of his roosters) but she was full of...
  19. Clifton sanders

    Urgent Response Requested: Silkie pullet found lifeless in coop.

    On Tuesday I found her lifeless in the pen. She was just fine 3 hours ago. The other 7 were just fine. and still are. She is alive but basically limp in my arms. I have been able to get food down her and some liquids. Limited Tuesday but more on Wedn and Thursday. She will swallow any food...
  20. CosmoNOT

    1/2 Sized Sick Baby

    I need suggestion for treating a sick turkey, please! Turkey raising newbie... I received an order of day old turkeys, guinea fowl, and chickens from a hatchery on July 18th. One turkey never seemed to grow but was eating and drinking. This turkey is now obviously sick - half the size of the...
    • CosmoNOT
    • Thread
    • diagnosis help illness medical problems medication nasal discharge sick turkey undersized underweight urgent
    • Replies: 20
    • Forum: Turkeys
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