Blackhead doses help

[KsKingBee]

He never said if it was or not, no pictures either. he said that the bird had lost a lot of weight, it weighed 6lb at the vets office.

 

[EyeKeyYou]

Had a 2 month chick die similarly. Was just fine, then droopy wings one day, dead the next. Thought it might be blackhead so pulled out a pair of scissors to do a necropsy. Apparently what happened was a small piece of fescue grass had grown through the floor of raised cage and this chick managed to pull it up and keep pulling grass and more grass out swallowing it till it had a large ball rolled up blocking the gut so it could no longer swallow or drink water. My point is everyone should know and be willing to necropsy their birds I could have been medicating the remaining 15 for no reason instead they just got grit just in case they also managed to get some grass they couldn't process.

 

[casportpony]

I am definetly a fan of at home necropsies.

-Kathy

 

[EyeKeyYou]

I am definetly a fan of at home necropsies.

-Kathy

What most people don't realize is that with a good pair of scissors you can do a basic one in 30 seconds.

 

[casportpony]

I am definetly a fan of at home necropsies.


-Kathy

What most people don't realize is that with a good pair of scissors you can do a basic one in 30 seconds.

They are easy to do, aren't they? Curiously, where did you find the obstruction?

-Kathy

 

[EyeKeyYou]

They are easy to do, aren't they? Curiously, where did you find the obstruction?

-Kathy

The crop. Oddly I couldn't really feel the obstruction the day prior. I did give her a little olive oil with water and electrolytes and remember the plunger felt odd. I thought she ate a feather. When I found her dead the next morning I cut down the side of her mouth all the way down to do a quick organ check and immediately saw a mass the size of a gumball so I pulled it out and it was a single piece of grass "root" almost 2 feet long rolled up into a tight ball. This "chick pen" had not been used since last year and I only half cleaned it of everything thinking whats a little grass going to do they will have something to play with.
So here is the trivia question 10 peachicks in the pen. 2 white, 1 very boldly marked pied (though not silver pied), 3 50% spaulding, 1 crooked toe purple black shoulder (pipped upside down), 2 plain blackshoulder, 1 purple blackshouder. So which peachick died and which peachick will never die?

 

[KsKingBee]

The 'very boldly marked Pied' probably died and the crooked toe will be with you always.

 

[EyeKeyYou]

The 'very boldly marked Pied' probably died and the crooked toe will be with you always.

Exactly. That is why when people ask if they can let them roam free I tell them that if there is one they don't like he will never leave.