Please Help....

[brandiann29]

Hello my name is brandi and I am new to this whole Ginuea Fowl scene.... )

Well my dad and I just got 20 keets last tuesday so they are a week old as of today and one of them is a lot smaller then the rest and he/she has a big sack by its bumm it looks like it swollen and looks like its conispated ... didnt know what I should do he/she is eating and drinking , but is not running around like the others and just seems to want to sleep alot... i am trying to get pics uploaded so that it will be easier to understand what I am talking about.. any and all helps as to what to do or what this may be is GREATLY APPRECIATED !!!!! Thanks in advance!!!!!!

 

[brandiann29]

Here is a pic its kind of hard to see the big sack but as you can see in the pics he/she is a lot smaller than the rest

 

[Sandshaven]

What does the sack seem to be made of? Describe it better or try for a better pic please

 

[brandiann29]

Here is a better pic....

 

[Sandshaven]

It looks to be a small tumor.. It's hard to tell... Is it on it's bum or leg?

 

[brandiann29]

it is like his/her whole backside ( bum area ) is all swollen like he/she has a bunch of backed up poop ..... he/she is still eating and drinking.... so if he/she was't pooping wouldn't it not have lived for over a week???

 

[Sandshaven]

I'm not sure... Have you seen it poop?

 

[PeepsCA]

Did it have had a bad case of pasty butt ? Sometimes pulling the dried poop off can end up injuring the vent... and what it looks like to me is that there's possibly an infection in the tissues of vent or a bit of a prolapse going on because of it (or both). I would use some warm compresses on it a few times a day, get it cleaned up really well and put a layer of plain Neosporin on it (the kind without the pain relief in it) and see how it does. You can crush/smash a couple of cloves of fresh garlic and drop that into their waterer (natural antibiotic) and also add some Unpasteurized Apple Cider Vinegar with Mother in it to the water too... 1 tsp per quart of water or 1-2 TBS per gallon of water). Unpasteurized Apple Cider Vinegar with Mother is a natural all around health tonic, plus it contains probiotics and enzymes in it which will help the keet get the most out of it's feed and hopefully catch up to it's brooder-mates. Walmart and some grocery stores carry it in their natural foods section, but you may need to go find it at a health food store).. Some people may recommend adding antibiotics to the drinking water, but unless you know for sure it's an infection I personally wouldn't go that route... sometimes oral antibiotics do more harm than good to young keets.

 

[sunny & the 5 egg layers]

I'm not too familiar with guineas, but I am familiar with chickens. I had a chick who had a bulged out bump on/around her butt too. My chick turned out to be constipated, and it looks to me like your keet is constipated too.
I soaked my chick's butt in peroxide diluted in water. I held the chick, and made sure the solution was warm so that it wouldn't chill the chick. I then added the peroxide/water solution to a shallow container and held the chick over it so that it's vent was submerged in the solution. I used Q-tips to very gently pull out any poop I could. I dried the chick off with some paper towels, and put it back in the brooder.

I did this process several times, and the chicks constipation issue was cured. I'm not sure if it would work for your keet, but I think it is definitely worth a shot.

Good Luck!

 

[Heidisgran]

how is the chick now? I saw a picture of something like that when I googled!