1) What type of bird , age and weight.
2) What is the behavior, exactly.
3) How long has the bird been exhibiting symptoms?
4) Is there any bleeding, injury, broken bones or other sign of trauma.
5) What happened, if anything that you know of, that may have caused the situation.
6) What has the bird been eating and drinking, if at all.
7) How does the poop look? Normal? Bloody? Runny? etc.
8) What has been the treatment you have administered so far?
9 ) What is your intent as far as treatment? For example, do you want to treat completely yourself, or do you need help in stabilizing the bird til you can get to a vet?
10) If you have a picture of the wound or condition, please post it. It may help.
11) Describe the housing/bedding in use
1) Pullet, Bantam cochin bantam, about 14 weeks and about 400 grams i think, if i can read the scales right
2) Normal, chatty, eats and drinks fine, gets on with the others
3) Not sure, i thought i found a lump the other week but then it seemed to have disappeared, but it showed up and stayed for around a week.
4) Not that i can see, i dont think theres any broken bones though i havn't ruled the possibility out
5) No idea. I thought maybe she hurt herself befor ei had her as a baby, her mother was kidnapped soshe may have been injured during that, but it could just be an abnormality in her?
6) Eating: Layers pellets, just coming off chick crumbs with some sort of anti-biotic i think and she's been drinking water, same as the other girls
7) She has a runny diahrea and when she poops it makes a squishy noise, like if you squeeze a wet spong and it goes "Pfut"
8) Nothing, i have no idea what it is
9) I'll treatmyself, and maybe ask my auntie who works in a vets to come have a look... and see a guy who knows about birds maybe
10) Post pics below
11) Straw in the eggboxes, and they used to have straw in their house, but its wood shaving now instead.
I have no idea whats wrong with her, she seems happy enough, runs around and it isn't slowing her down in any way i can see, but she is smaller and scrawnier than the rest and is very pale on her feet and beak and little comb. Also, she has little bald patches as they all do feathering, but the bald patch on this lump (About, and in in diameter, inch and halfish?) seems streched, and against the other female pekin her age, it feels like her crop fell into her shoulder area
The bald patch over it
The size with my fingers wrapped round it
If you can tell its sticking out quick a bit, but its hard to see in the feathers
Again hard to tell the size difference with the feathers but Betsy is bigger than Gerry
You can easily see the colour difference in their feet, and all the chicks have yellow feet except for thetwio silkie croo's, who have black skin all over.
Bad picture but Betsy has more colour in her faace by far, where as Gerry is all pink and light (on the right)
I got a little video too if that helps
Please help, i love all my babies and i want her to be well, i don't mind if it's just an abnormality so long as she can live with it.
She can be my little odd ball
2) What is the behavior, exactly.
3) How long has the bird been exhibiting symptoms?
4) Is there any bleeding, injury, broken bones or other sign of trauma.
5) What happened, if anything that you know of, that may have caused the situation.
6) What has the bird been eating and drinking, if at all.
7) How does the poop look? Normal? Bloody? Runny? etc.
8) What has been the treatment you have administered so far?
9 ) What is your intent as far as treatment? For example, do you want to treat completely yourself, or do you need help in stabilizing the bird til you can get to a vet?
10) If you have a picture of the wound or condition, please post it. It may help.
11) Describe the housing/bedding in use
1) Pullet, Bantam cochin bantam, about 14 weeks and about 400 grams i think, if i can read the scales right
2) Normal, chatty, eats and drinks fine, gets on with the others
3) Not sure, i thought i found a lump the other week but then it seemed to have disappeared, but it showed up and stayed for around a week.
4) Not that i can see, i dont think theres any broken bones though i havn't ruled the possibility out
5) No idea. I thought maybe she hurt herself befor ei had her as a baby, her mother was kidnapped soshe may have been injured during that, but it could just be an abnormality in her?
6) Eating: Layers pellets, just coming off chick crumbs with some sort of anti-biotic i think and she's been drinking water, same as the other girls
7) She has a runny diahrea and when she poops it makes a squishy noise, like if you squeeze a wet spong and it goes "Pfut"
8) Nothing, i have no idea what it is
9) I'll treatmyself, and maybe ask my auntie who works in a vets to come have a look... and see a guy who knows about birds maybe
10) Post pics below
11) Straw in the eggboxes, and they used to have straw in their house, but its wood shaving now instead.
I have no idea whats wrong with her, she seems happy enough, runs around and it isn't slowing her down in any way i can see, but she is smaller and scrawnier than the rest and is very pale on her feet and beak and little comb. Also, she has little bald patches as they all do feathering, but the bald patch on this lump (About, and in in diameter, inch and halfish?) seems streched, and against the other female pekin her age, it feels like her crop fell into her shoulder area
The bald patch over it
The size with my fingers wrapped round it
If you can tell its sticking out quick a bit, but its hard to see in the feathers
Again hard to tell the size difference with the feathers but Betsy is bigger than Gerry
You can easily see the colour difference in their feet, and all the chicks have yellow feet except for thetwio silkie croo's, who have black skin all over.
Bad picture but Betsy has more colour in her faace by far, where as Gerry is all pink and light (on the right)
I got a little video too if that helps
Please help, i love all my babies and i want her to be well, i don't mind if it's just an abnormality so long as she can live with it.
She can be my little odd ball
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