Rhyahcf
Chirping
- Sep 9, 2017
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Hi,
I intro'd myself over in the new member thread, but basically we bought a 66 acre hobby farm back in August that included 13 geese, 2 ducks, and a peacock and peahen. The previous owner of the farm home only lived here a year and had also inherited all of these birds when he purchased the farm in auction. He kept the peafowl penned the entire time, never changed their water, and basically just threw corn at them when he thought about it. So when we moved here they were very thin and skittish. After about a month we started letting them out to free range and ever since then they just hang out by the garage or down by our pond and fly up into the tree next to their pen at night. We insulated their pen for severe weather and cleaned it out real good.
Here's the issue. Yesterday I noticed that the peahen wasn't very active and her throat area seemed enlarged. We woke up this morning and noticed that the peahen's throat area was very swollen and she had fresh blood around her beak. She can no longer honk. She didn't appear to eat or drink anything today. We tried in vain to catch her, but couldn't. She then went into her pen on her own and sat down, so I closed it up and tried to find a local vet that would see her and there are none or none that have any clue what to do with a peahen. At sunset, my husband and I were able to catch her and I looked into her mouth and there was no fresh blood. In fact, there wasn't any new blood on her other than what crusted over from this morning so it seems that any fresh bleeding has stopped. Her tongue was in tact, and there was absolutely nothing that I could see inside of her mouth, including any type of trich or other fungus. The swollen area isn't hardened, but rather just like swollen loose skin. She let me touch it without freaking out. Using a syringe, I did give her a small amount of warm water and she seemed to love that so she must be thirsty. She also seemed to swallow with no problem and did not spit it up or spit up any fresh blood. Tomorrow we are going to get some pedialyte and give her some of that, but I'm not sure what to do about food. Can anyone figure out what has happened? Did she eat something that jacked up her throat? The people who lived here before had trash and burn piles all over the place, and we are still cleaning it all up little by little, so it's possible she got hold of some glass or something but we don't know. What else can we do for her when there is no vet that can help us and the closest bird vet is 4 hours away so not a possible trip over the new years weekend. I am including a before and after photo of what her throat area looks like in another comment.
Thank you,
Rhyah
I intro'd myself over in the new member thread, but basically we bought a 66 acre hobby farm back in August that included 13 geese, 2 ducks, and a peacock and peahen. The previous owner of the farm home only lived here a year and had also inherited all of these birds when he purchased the farm in auction. He kept the peafowl penned the entire time, never changed their water, and basically just threw corn at them when he thought about it. So when we moved here they were very thin and skittish. After about a month we started letting them out to free range and ever since then they just hang out by the garage or down by our pond and fly up into the tree next to their pen at night. We insulated their pen for severe weather and cleaned it out real good.
Here's the issue. Yesterday I noticed that the peahen wasn't very active and her throat area seemed enlarged. We woke up this morning and noticed that the peahen's throat area was very swollen and she had fresh blood around her beak. She can no longer honk. She didn't appear to eat or drink anything today. We tried in vain to catch her, but couldn't. She then went into her pen on her own and sat down, so I closed it up and tried to find a local vet that would see her and there are none or none that have any clue what to do with a peahen. At sunset, my husband and I were able to catch her and I looked into her mouth and there was no fresh blood. In fact, there wasn't any new blood on her other than what crusted over from this morning so it seems that any fresh bleeding has stopped. Her tongue was in tact, and there was absolutely nothing that I could see inside of her mouth, including any type of trich or other fungus. The swollen area isn't hardened, but rather just like swollen loose skin. She let me touch it without freaking out. Using a syringe, I did give her a small amount of warm water and she seemed to love that so she must be thirsty. She also seemed to swallow with no problem and did not spit it up or spit up any fresh blood. Tomorrow we are going to get some pedialyte and give her some of that, but I'm not sure what to do about food. Can anyone figure out what has happened? Did she eat something that jacked up her throat? The people who lived here before had trash and burn piles all over the place, and we are still cleaning it all up little by little, so it's possible she got hold of some glass or something but we don't know. What else can we do for her when there is no vet that can help us and the closest bird vet is 4 hours away so not a possible trip over the new years weekend. I am including a before and after photo of what her throat area looks like in another comment.
Thank you,
Rhyah
