Ok I have these 3 birds, there is something wrong with all of them. There has been something wrong with them for a long time, I think it is time I asked about it. Here is the first bird, my Muscovy duck.
This is not really I massive problem, I don't think so at least, but why is there foam by his eye? It is not always there and when it appears it disappears within an hour. I have other Muscovies and this also sometimes happens to my other drake but never happens to my 5 hens. I also have Rouens and Pekin ducks, it never happens to them either, why does it happen to this guy and what is it?
Second bird- This is way more serious... So in late March last year I got 8 chickens from Tractor supply, 4 White Leghorns and 4 Red Sexlinks. One of the White leghorns had poop on its butt and was much smaller than the others when it reached week 1. I cleaned off the poop and it kept its butt clean after that but stopped growing. By the time they hit the 3 week mark this chick was still the size of a 4 or 5 day old chick. She stayed with the others and ate and drank normally. By the time the other hens started to lay she was starting to grow and was nearing full size but still had no development of her comb. A few months later her comb started to grow, I thought everything would turn out normal and she would start to lay but I was wrong... Her comb stopped growing, she then got all bloated and started pooping out blood and white slime like she had an egg pop inside her or something. This went on for over a week! I separated her from the main flock and eventually it stopped bleeding. Fast forward a month and it happens again, still the comb has developed no further, this time it lasted for a little under a week. This kept happening for a while every month but then it stopped, her comb finished growing in and I thought she would now become a normal hen but again I was wrong. It happened again a few months back and has not happened since, the hen has grown spurs and has a paler face than my other birds. Her bottom is starting to swell up and I think it might happen again! What the heck is going on, how do I stop this? btw she has never laid an egg.
Third and probably weirdest bird... Ron, is a RIR rooster that I hatched last June, he was normal at first but around the 4 or 5 week mark something happened, he had what I thought was a stroke, he acted like he was paralyzed. I thought he was going to die but he slowly recovered after about a week. He never fully recovered though. His vision is messed up, he is always bobbing and twisting his head to get a better look at things. He would try to fly but he did not know where the ground was once he took off and found out by smashing into it and knocking the wind out of himself. He could not fly up to the perch, he could not fight, he would always miss his kicks and dodge into the attacks. Since then he has improved more, he can get up to a perch but still can not fly. Now he just runs and flaps his wings, I would always laugh at him when I saw him doing this its like he thinks he is flying, but he can actually go really fast, he can outrun me and my brother and our younger dogs, and I am not a very slow person, neither are my dogs. Along with this he has improved his fighting skills. He still bobs his head like a dummy though. Also, he sits and stands like a sick hen would but definitely does not show any other signs of illness. I noticed that the joints in his toes have gotten very jagged... Along with that his ankle joint has a bony growth coming out of it. We call him 4 spurs because his ankle growths are as long as his tiny spurs and it appears as if he has 2 sets of spurs. I picked him up today to get a better look at him and found something out that is kinda scary, he seems to be built out of muscle he flapped and scratched when I held him and his strength is comparable to my Muscovy drakes, he definitely has twice the strength of his father who is twice the size, but why? None of this could be caused by what I thought was a stroke, right?
The last two are pretty bad pictures, oops.
This is not really I massive problem, I don't think so at least, but why is there foam by his eye? It is not always there and when it appears it disappears within an hour. I have other Muscovies and this also sometimes happens to my other drake but never happens to my 5 hens. I also have Rouens and Pekin ducks, it never happens to them either, why does it happen to this guy and what is it?
Second bird- This is way more serious... So in late March last year I got 8 chickens from Tractor supply, 4 White Leghorns and 4 Red Sexlinks. One of the White leghorns had poop on its butt and was much smaller than the others when it reached week 1. I cleaned off the poop and it kept its butt clean after that but stopped growing. By the time they hit the 3 week mark this chick was still the size of a 4 or 5 day old chick. She stayed with the others and ate and drank normally. By the time the other hens started to lay she was starting to grow and was nearing full size but still had no development of her comb. A few months later her comb started to grow, I thought everything would turn out normal and she would start to lay but I was wrong... Her comb stopped growing, she then got all bloated and started pooping out blood and white slime like she had an egg pop inside her or something. This went on for over a week! I separated her from the main flock and eventually it stopped bleeding. Fast forward a month and it happens again, still the comb has developed no further, this time it lasted for a little under a week. This kept happening for a while every month but then it stopped, her comb finished growing in and I thought she would now become a normal hen but again I was wrong. It happened again a few months back and has not happened since, the hen has grown spurs and has a paler face than my other birds. Her bottom is starting to swell up and I think it might happen again! What the heck is going on, how do I stop this? btw she has never laid an egg.
Third and probably weirdest bird... Ron, is a RIR rooster that I hatched last June, he was normal at first but around the 4 or 5 week mark something happened, he had what I thought was a stroke, he acted like he was paralyzed. I thought he was going to die but he slowly recovered after about a week. He never fully recovered though. His vision is messed up, he is always bobbing and twisting his head to get a better look at things. He would try to fly but he did not know where the ground was once he took off and found out by smashing into it and knocking the wind out of himself. He could not fly up to the perch, he could not fight, he would always miss his kicks and dodge into the attacks. Since then he has improved more, he can get up to a perch but still can not fly. Now he just runs and flaps his wings, I would always laugh at him when I saw him doing this its like he thinks he is flying, but he can actually go really fast, he can outrun me and my brother and our younger dogs, and I am not a very slow person, neither are my dogs. Along with this he has improved his fighting skills. He still bobs his head like a dummy though. Also, he sits and stands like a sick hen would but definitely does not show any other signs of illness. I noticed that the joints in his toes have gotten very jagged... Along with that his ankle joint has a bony growth coming out of it. We call him 4 spurs because his ankle growths are as long as his tiny spurs and it appears as if he has 2 sets of spurs. I picked him up today to get a better look at him and found something out that is kinda scary, he seems to be built out of muscle he flapped and scratched when I held him and his strength is comparable to my Muscovy drakes, he definitely has twice the strength of his father who is twice the size, but why? None of this could be caused by what I thought was a stroke, right?
The last two are pretty bad pictures, oops.
