Feel so Bad for this Peahen........

[chickenzoo]

I have this young BS hen. She was fine when she was a chick but as she got older she just never put on weight, and would always open her mouth a lot and choke on food. I tried several times to check in her mouth etc... I wormed her several times... all to no avail. I thought I'd just try to keep her comfortable until she gave up and I had to cull her. Well we just finished a new peafowl pen and I was sneaking around at night worming everyone why they were perching and I came to her. I decided for some reason to look in her throat, it looked a little poochy under her chin. I shined the flashlight on her and looked down her throat and felt under her tongue...... just then the flashlight caught a glimpse of a small thin black thread embedded under her tongue. I brought her in the house and with a flash light, tweezers and scissors and my 2 hands.....held her and carefully cut and pulled. It was wrapped around her entire tongue, but at an angle it would have been hard to notice. As I carefully remove it, out slid a four inch piece of fine bird netting, that was about 2 inches wide if unrolled..... that was wrapped around her tongue and down her throat !!!! Poor thing...... no wonder she couldn't eat well. How she got a hold of it I don't know, but she seems happy as a clam in water now. I've never seem her so active, and I feel horrible that she suffered for that long. If I hadn't caught sight of it at the right angle she'd still be suffering..........

 

[VerlonCox]

My pea hens give me more grief then all of the other birds that I have put together. They get into more stuff then a rabid monkey on cocaine but I love them all and they are really beautiful birds. That was an excellent catch on your part and I just filed that away in case I ever have anything similar. Thanks for sharing.

 

[Outbackhill Kennels]

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Lucky you seen it I guess, I dunno how some things get things in there mouths few years ago I had a guppy(fish) get a 3" piece of elastic band in her throat first question how did she get the elastic band and second question how does a fish that would be lucky to be 2 1/2" long swallow that much elastic. Thats animals tho they will surprise you.

 

[VerlonCox]

I just got a registered boer goat kid out of a hay rake that was on the other side of the lake! How she got out of a 4 strand electrified fence baffles me in the first place but how she managed to crawl into and get stuck in a hay rake is even more baffling (she really had to work at that..........like it was intentional). OHHHH and when I came back into the barn with her one of my yearling peacocks was trying to impress my month old jersey giants. This place is a mad house at least 23 hours out of the day!!

 

[Outbackhill Kennels]

Goats are magical at getting into situations, just ask me I am currently hand feeding baby boer in the house.

 

[deerman]

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[b.hromada]

I'm so happy you caught it in time! You're a good Peahen mom!!

Sounds like she will be just fine, good job!!

 

[GardienneWings]

My peas are notorious for getting the strings off of feed bags wrapped around their tongues and I have had to do just what you described more than once, and even had to make a trip to the vet with one I COULDN'T get lose. Their tongue has a hinge like spot in the middle and the string will wrap around the tongue then slide up under the front piece of the tongue so it is very hard (impossible) to see from the top of the tongue. We have become very concious of where the strings go when we fill feed cans but every once in a while they still get a hold of a string.

Peas and turkeys can get themselves into more messes than any other bird alive! It is a miracle the species has survived!

Val