My Muscovies are trying to pip - Pictures

[casportpony]

They look great Kathy, hows the weak one from yesterday doing? Have you found anyone interested in any of them yet?

The weak one probably won't make it through the night. I've been tubing it, but I can't keep it hydrated. Maybe I'll try subcutaneous fluids.

-Kathy

 

[Miss Lydia]

The weak one probably won't make it through the night. I've been tubing it, but I can't keep it hydrated. Maybe I'll try subcutaneous fluids.

-Kathy

I'm sorry to hear this, but I will say this you sure have tried. Are you in the medical field? you seem so knowledgeable about things.
How can you tell it's not hydrated?

 

[casportpony]

I'm sorry to hear this, but I will say this you sure have tried. Are you in the medical field? you seem so knowledgeable about things.
How can you tell it's not hydrated?

Not in the medical field, just had lots of practice with cats, dogs, horses and poultry

and too cheap to go to a vet. To me it's eyes look dry, so that why I think it's dehydrated, plus it seems to have a hard time when I give it more than .3ml at a time and it's not really pooping very much.

-Kathy

 

[Miss Lydia]

Not in the medical field, just had lots of practice with cats, dogs, horses and poultry

and too cheap to go to a vet. To me it's eyes look dry, so that why I think it's dehydrated, plus it seems to have a hard time when I give it more than .3ml at a time and it's not really pooping very much.

-Kathy

What are you feeding it? I sure understand about not wanting to go to the vet. Just wish I had a bit more knowledge about treatments, but I am learning having treated this hen for bumble. and found the best way to give baytril is in a tiny piece of bread. [she never knew] I hope this lil one rallies for you.

 

[casportpony]

What are you feeding it? I sure understand about not wanting to go to the vet. Just wish I had a bit more knowledge about treatments, but I am learning having treated this hen for bumble. and found the best way to give baytril is in a tiny piece of bread. [she never knew] I hope this lil one rallies for you.

I was feeding it Kaytee Exact Baby Bird Food mixed with Pediatyle, but it just died... I'll post some pictures of my baby tube set-up in case anyone ever wants to try it.

-Kathy

 

[Lacrystol]

So the one with wry neck died and now it looks like the other one has neck problems, too, so I'm wondering if maybe they picked up something in the incubator?

-Kathy

DIED? OMG, goodness, something internally perhaps...

 

[Lacrystol]

I am thinking about sending the dead one off to UC Davis for a necropsy.

-Kathy

Sounds good but do you clean your bator after each hatching?? or just keep throwing eggs in there?

 

[Lacrystol]

Thanks... I'm going to call the lab and talk to Dr. Prasad about things that can look like wry neck, maybe he'll have some answers. Whatever it is, I do believe it's contagious and/or environmental as the second one is starting to do the same thing.

-Kathy

Well if its mareks or something I know it can't transfer from inside the egg. I mean if the mother hen has it she can't pass it along to the embryo that's just starting to form. and that you should hatch your own eggs and not bring babies into your flock.

Another thought could be to much inbreeding causing some to be deformed..

 

[Lacrystol]

Will do! FWIW, I did a thorough cleaning before these hatched.

-Kathy

What are you using?? Perhaps it's something you added or used? Maybe?

 

[Lacrystol]

Looking iffy... The pathologIst I just spoke with suspects that it's probably a bacterial infection like e. Coli. I asked about Baytril, and she said it's unlikely to work, something about the blood/brain barrier.

-Kathy

WOW, that's so sad... there's some stuff you can get for it. GRRR can't think of the name right now, let me look it up. hang on..