Help needed Peahen

[NikyZDem]

I’m devastated to say my peahen just passed away. She became sick on Wednesday of this week. All of a sudden she had watery brown poo and started breathing heavy with her mouth open slightly, then just faded away very quickly. Does anyone know how this will effect her 5 month old babies? I’ve read they don’t survive without the mother. Currently their father is doing a great job at staying with them except feeding time, but I make sure they eat separately from him as he tends to attack them then.

 

[NikyZDem]

I just found out my husband feed her moldy bread, could this have been the cause???

 

[AB03Sam]

So sorry for your loss.
I think the 5 month old chicks should be able to cope just fine without mamma.

 

[azygous]

I think your husband gave you the reason for your peahen's illness. Yes. Food mold is highly toxic and will kill poultry.

Many of us have made such mistakes, so please forgive him. Now you both know to throw out the moldy bread.

 

[casportpony]

I am very sorry for your loss. Since the other peafowl are not sick I doubt that the moldy bread was the cause of death. The only way to know for sure what her cause of death was would be to do a necropsy (animal autopsy). If you want, I can tell you how to do one.

 

[NikyZDem]

I think your husband gave you the reason for your peahen's illness. Yes. Food mold is highly toxic and will kill poultry.

Many of us have made such mistakes, so please forgive him. Now you both know to throw out the moldy bread.

I already knew that, but was away for Xmas, he feed it to all my peafowl, but only my beautiful peahen became sick.

 

[NikyZDem]

So sorry for your loss.
I think the 5 month old chicks should be able to cope just fine without mamma.

Thank you, much appreciated

 

[NikyZDem]

I am very sorry for your loss. Since the other peafowl are not sick I doubt that the moldy bread was the cause of death. The only way to know for sure what her cause of death was would be to do a necropsy (animal autopsy). If you want, I can tell you how to do one.

Yes please, I’d like to know so I can avoid this in the future.

 

[casportpony]

Yes please, I’d like to know so I can avoid this in the future.

You will want to open her abdominal cavity and take a look at her liver, her intestines, and look for signs of a reproductive tract infection. Can you take pictures as you do it?

https://thepoultrysite.com/articles/poultry-necropsy-basics
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLzf8tGKj10zzE5jXlhAxw5Z7UaPJV6aIB

 

[casportpony]

I already knew that, but was away for Xmas, he feed it to all my peafowl, but only my beautiful peahen became sick.

Since all of them ate it and only one got sick, I don't think it was the bread. Of course it's not a good idea to feed moldy food to anything and hopefully he won't do that again.