shamorunner
In the Brooder
- Mar 11, 2024
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I have a female Rhea with a fluid filled sack on her neck. I thought it might be compaction am not feeling anything hard, just feeling the liquid.
There barely trace amounts of pine shavings, their bedding is fescue hay. Their diet is dog food, calf crumble, alfalfa pellets, and a few handfuls of pea gravel mixed into the 100lbs of feed.
She is lethargic and her stool was not solid today judging by her tail feather being covered rather than the more typical clean look. She normally runs around their enclosure but only the two males greeted me today. One of the males is more docile and the other male and the female less docile but curious at times.
I had the heat lamp on last night to keep them a little warmer, they are at the age for not needing it but I am still a bit cautious compared to when I would have adolescent chickens. They also have pine trees, but were fully hatched and raised with similar feed and also pine trees from the breeder. The breeder was working me but we crossed of a lot of things that might be the cause, but he hasn't seen a large fluid filled sack before in his 35 years of working with Rhea, Emu, Ostrich, and Peafowl.
I'm not sure if she'll make it, I'll be quarantining her and working with her. If anyone has any recommendations or see a large fluid filled sack on the neck before, please let me know
I am trying to familiarize myself with one of the listed image hosting platforms, the best I can do in the meantime is a discord link that I hope loads properly in this post
Female Rhea with fluid filled sack on neck: https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachme...35c2e2b9132e77f6f2bc4e46fa3bb2d8cc8774baee46&
There barely trace amounts of pine shavings, their bedding is fescue hay. Their diet is dog food, calf crumble, alfalfa pellets, and a few handfuls of pea gravel mixed into the 100lbs of feed.
She is lethargic and her stool was not solid today judging by her tail feather being covered rather than the more typical clean look. She normally runs around their enclosure but only the two males greeted me today. One of the males is more docile and the other male and the female less docile but curious at times.
I had the heat lamp on last night to keep them a little warmer, they are at the age for not needing it but I am still a bit cautious compared to when I would have adolescent chickens. They also have pine trees, but were fully hatched and raised with similar feed and also pine trees from the breeder. The breeder was working me but we crossed of a lot of things that might be the cause, but he hasn't seen a large fluid filled sack before in his 35 years of working with Rhea, Emu, Ostrich, and Peafowl.
I'm not sure if she'll make it, I'll be quarantining her and working with her. If anyone has any recommendations or see a large fluid filled sack on the neck before, please let me know
I am trying to familiarize myself with one of the listed image hosting platforms, the best I can do in the meantime is a discord link that I hope loads properly in this post
Female Rhea with fluid filled sack on neck: https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachme...35c2e2b9132e77f6f2bc4e46fa3bb2d8cc8774baee46&
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I don't know anything about these birds however it looks like the bird has a slow or sour crop. Not too many Rhea keepers here on BYC, let me tag a few members that keep these birds that may be able to help. (If they don't respond, I can move this thread to our Emergency forum and hopefully someone can help you there.)
