Peafowl Arrived Early, Need Advice on Health, THANKS!

[new 2 pfowl]

I'm so sorry about your poor peababies.

And for you, that was a difficult experience.
It sounds like you already know this, but it is very unlikely that you could have done anything to help them - as you say, they were already very ill by the time you received them. You made an excellent effort on their behalf.

When you get ready to try again, I believe we have some members in your neck of the woods, who could help you to get healthy peababies next time around. We will look forward to hearing about them.

 

[KsKingBee]

Sorry for the bad experience, it is a hard lesson to learn. It seems more than likely that the chicks succumbed to cocci, they can die from it in just a few days. With cocci, peachicks can show symptoms and be gone in four days although they have had it longer. Look through @casportpony poo pictures to get a sense of what to watch for as well as the outward signs that are common to illness.

I will put all peachicks on a cocci med within a couple of weeks as contamination can be airborne or transmitted by clothing or handling. My broody raised chicks are also given sulfa in the drinking water as a matter of course, starting at week one.

This is a five month old chick that died of cocci and related complications.


Here you can see a reddish and bloody stool that included the shedding of the liner of the intestines.

 

[casportpony]

So sorry for your losses.

I haven't been checking my email, so I didn't noticed I was tagged (@casportpony). So sorry.

-Kathy

 

[casportpony]

Sorry for the bad experience, it is a hard lesson to learn. It seems more than likely that the chicks succumbed to cocci, they can die from it in just a few days. With cocci, peachicks can show symptoms and be gone in four days although they have had it longer. Look through @casportpony poo pictures to get a sense of what to watch for as well as the outward signs that are common to illness.

I will put all peachicks on a cocci med within a couple of weeks as contamination can be airborne or transmitted by clothing or handling. My broody raised chicks are also given sulfa in the drinking water as a matter of course, starting at week one.

This is a five month old chick that died of cocci and related complications.


Here you can see a reddish and bloody stool that included the shedding of the liner of the intestines.

May I add those to the poo page?

-Kathy

 

[KsKingBee]

May I add those to the poo page?

-Kathy

You certainly may! That was Peanellipea, I took that loss very hard.

 

[casportpony]

Quote: I remember.

-Kathy

 

[yeye5]

I'm so sorry about your poor peababies.

And for you, that was a difficult experience.
It sounds like you already know this, but it is very unlikely that you could have done anything to help them - as you say, they were already very ill by the time you received them. You made an excellent effort on their behalf.

When you get ready to try again, I believe we have some members in your neck of the woods, who could help you to get healthy peababies next time around. We will look forward to hearing about them.

Thank you for your kind words and thoughts. I do know they were ill beyond treatable. It just never stops appauling me how humans treat animals. When I'm ready I will certainly post here and see what's possible to do to adopt healthy hearty little ones. I just found that despite the terrible situation I had to try to help, not that I thought it had a big chance of success, but I couldn't allow their last days to be without the care and love that at least I was able to offer.
It was a touching moment in the middle of the night/early morning when the last one was trying so hard, as I was. It kept making peep-peep noises and I just held it to my body keeping it warm and talking to it...
I gave it my all.
If I do try again, I really hope (and expect) a very different experience.
The people here on this forum have been great thru this crisis. Thank you all.

 

[yeye5]

May I add those to the poo page?

-Kathy

So sorry for your loss too!
I had chicken chicks that showed signs--Early--of cocci, treated them and they're fine.
I had these peachicks less than 48 hours basically removing them from a "friend"s home due to their distress.
I knew when I held them--especially bcs I had held them when this person first got them--that there was a huge difference. They started hearty and plump. The next time I held them (when they were brought to my house sunday) they were bony and emaciated. I get it that they were too sick to pull thru. But I'd likely do the same and I have in circumstances where the only hope is fast treatments and a stubborn human. Unfortunately neither of those helped in this situation.
I will NOT condone this irresponsability from the same human again. But I would take in baby-anythings or adult anythings if I could do my best and pray for a miracle. It wasn't in the cards for these precious beings. I am sad.