➡I accidentally bought Balut eggs: 2 live ducks! Now a Chat Thread!

[Kiki]

I'm sick to my stomach right now. I just went to check on my girls for the THIRD time today and I found Adeline, my faverolle dead. I've never lost a bird other than a couple chicks and I'm really mad at myself. I knew a few of them had recently developed a few dirty feathers on their behinds but I checked a couple of them out and didn't see anything alarming so I decided to just continue to treat for vent gleet (jic) and bathe them all when the hubby got back in a couple days and I had the additional pair of hands. Anyway when I found her I looked closely at her vent it looks like this girl had a prolapsed vent that had become infected. I don't know if I wouldve been able to make a difference but I wish I would've at least tried. I'm not a hold and pet my chickens kind of keeper. I feed them and LOVE watching them but they aren't my pets and I don't ever handle them. I guess I need to start doing so more often tho. Adeline in particular was skittish so I also avoided trying to restrain her. Anyway I can't believe this just happened and I'm pretty grateful I've actually been using this thread so much bc I need this outlet right now. Btw I do not have any plastic gloves but I still took a pic (which was disgusting btw) for you guys to inspect. I never noticed her acting odd which really does throw me. Anyway now I have to find somewhere to flipping dump a chicken body- gross- and break it to my kids. View attachment 1467379

I am so sorry.

 

[Kiki]

@Tesumph if you see something I didn't please let me know. I haven't dealt with illness much so I'll take any advice you've got.View attachment 1467413 View attachment 1467413

Do you see any maggots?

 

[adrikeen]

@jwyles
I hear you on checking on them more. I'm like you and just let them do their own thing but I came home last to a Sebright who clearly had an impacted crop. Thanks to BYC I was able to identify that and found the article on how to treat it. I followed the article and I thought everything was going well. She looked good this morning, I went to work, came home and found her deceased.
I'm obviously going to have to pay more attention to feeding, among other things.

 

[Kiki]

@jwyles
I hear you on checking on them more. I'm like you and just let them do their own thing but I came home last to a Sebright who clearly had an impacted crop. Thanks to BYC I was able to identify that and found the article on how to treat it. I followed the article and I thought everything was going well. She looked good this morning, I went to work, came home and found her deceased.
I'm obviously going to have to pay more attention to feeding, among other things.

Oh no. I am so sorry.


Do you notice any poop being off? Sometimes crop issues are secondary to other issues.

 

[adrikeen]

Not when I found her, it looked pretty normal - she did poop a few times after I isolated her, but I hadn't seen anything prior to that

 

[jwyles]

Do you see any maggots?

No there weren't any at all but I could see a small red inflamed portion of her vent pertruding out. Not huge at all but it was oozing puss which is why I couldn't get a good pic of the prolapse bc the ooze touched my hand it was repulsive.

 

[jwyles]

@jwyles
I hear you on checking on them more. I'm like you and just let them do their own thing but I came home last to a Sebright who clearly had an impacted crop. Thanks to BYC I was able to identify that and found the article on how to treat it. I followed the article and I thought everything was going well. She looked good this morning, I went to work, came home and found her deceased.
I'm obviously going to have to pay more attention to feeding, among other things.

Well I'm very sorry. Now I can honestly say I know how you feel and it SUCKS!

 

[jwyles]

Oh no. I am so sorry.


Do you notice any poop being off? Sometimes crop issues are secondary to other issues.

@KikisGirls i do watch their poop well and I haven't noticed any being off at all. It's almost always very well formed with normal coloring. On rare occasion it's a little watery looking but i chalked that up to the heat. Truth be told though I'm not sure that the watery I saw on occasion didn't or doesn't come from one bird specifically. You had advised me to get a fecal float done and I am going to but I just honestly haven't done it for the simple fact I'm wanting to wait til hubs is home in case I get bad news and need to try to deworm everyone. They've only been dewormed once and it was about a year ago. I used something that was recommended on here by someone and I had to do each bird individually and again I'd like extra hands on deck jic I encounter a problem. If that makes sense. It's just me and the two littles right now so I didn't want to take on the task just yet.

 

[Glitterchicks]

LMAO for real.

I know that normal people can trust eggs from a store for week.
I am not normal.

Is it bad that we still eat eggs from the store like 3 weeks later? They don't stink or float… . My chickens should be laying soon and I won't have to buy store eggs, but until then…

 

[jwyles]

Is it bad that we still eat eggs from the store like 3 weeks later? They don't stink or float… . My chickens should be laying soon and I won't have to buy store eggs, but until then…

I don't think so. I never go by carton date with store bought eggs.