PeaPod117
Chirping
I woke up this morning, and usually I have a “ritual” of waving to my flock from the bathroom window upstairs, and usually they’d honk and start getting restless. Today, I noticed little movement in the coop. There were my two Pekins, but they weren’t giving me their usual side eye. I saw brown down the front of the drake, but saw it was tinged with red. I saw one of the chickens on the ground with it’s feet up, and knew something was wrong. But when I went out, it was absolute carnage. All of my flock, dead. The head of one of my rare ducks was under a piece of wood, her body no where to be found. One of my roosters somehow escaped to the enclosed area of the coop, but was dead in a dramatic pose that showed me his suffering and defeat. One of the hens was still alive, having sustained an injury to her wing. But I think her mentality is what’s messed up the most. The drake has a gaping wound on his throat, and he seems ok, he drinks water and eats, but sometimes he gasps. The female pekin is pretty unharmed, save a few scratches on her face. I think the drake protected her. Right now, they’re in my bathroom, the ducks in my bathtub and my hen in a cardboard box with a heating pad under it. She seems exhausted and sickly. The female pekin seems dead inside, as she has not honked once and she makes little effort to eat.
Just wondering what to do from here on out? Unsure of their survival rates right now, I feel like any of them could drop dead, whether it be from injury or stress. I think the attack was still in progress when I got home late last night, because I didn’t hear the little wood duck honk like she usually does, so I think our car pulling up scared the raccoon away, taking my other ducks body with it.
Just wondering what to do from here on out? Unsure of their survival rates right now, I feel like any of them could drop dead, whether it be from injury or stress. I think the attack was still in progress when I got home late last night, because I didn’t hear the little wood duck honk like she usually does, so I think our car pulling up scared the raccoon away, taking my other ducks body with it.
I'm no expert but I would keep them all quiet and hydrated. Then I would just keep a close watch and work each problem as it comes. Be careful not to get the hen to hot,it's in the 90s here,is it cold where you are?Good luck and speedy recovery for your flock.
As for our hen, she doesn’t move u less it’s to turn a different way or sit down, and she doesn’t eat unless I “peck” my finger into her food bowl. I have a hard time forcing her to drink. I’ll dip her beak in the water and occasionally she’ll drink but she’s very stubborn about it and sometimes knocks down the water bowl.
