dying

Okay. Hopefully you are able to understand me in this post. I have tote brooders. One kennel cage as a brooder. The kennel contains 20 chicks. All alive from breeder. One large tote contains 14 chicks, all alive from a different breeder. The longest tote, had smaller hatched chicks, of...

One of my baby silkies has stopped eating and drinking, is smaller than the rest and is now not standing up and just making a weird clicking noise when breathing. I have tried to give water and nothing is working! She is about 3 weeks old.

I bought a pair of gouldian finches from a very well know avairy shop with 5 stars and always good reviews. After 2 days i came out and saw one of the finches dead on the ground. The shop gave me anothet gouldian as a refund, and now just then i see the older finch i got dead to. No other of my...

In the past 2 months I have lost my 3 oldest chickens, all 4-5 years old. They all get to moving very slow, look "COLD," keep their necks/head tucked in, walk around real slow. They do eat and drink, but eventually they end up having to be put down because they have nasty poop all over their...

Hello! I have an Americauna rooster. He has been acting strange for the past 3 days. We think he's suffering from dry fowl pox, but we are unsure of how to treat it. He's been sleeping in the corner of my horse's barn. He hasn't come out to eat, but when i bring food to him, he will. Just this...

hey, so i got two ducklings from a market, i have no idea what breed they are but im sure they have imprinted on each other as when ever i remove one from the other they start screaming, now im scared that one of the ducklings might pass away... so what do i do to keep the other duckling happy...

Hi all. Just a warning some may find content disturbing or upsetting. I do aoplogise Im advance. I have an injured chicken which survived a fox attack and is the only survivor of 14 chickens. 6 are missing and the rest were lying around and their heads were missing. they are not my chickens...

Hello everyone, I am desperately seeking help for my girls. I inquired at a few local vets offices and it seems the nearest Poultry vet is about 2 hours away from us. I have three hens in a coop and two in another. The two are new and I bought them from a flea market. They showed no signs of...

i received chicks through mail for the first time and I've had them for abt three days but one of my silkie chicks had been lethargic since we got her, at first she seemed normal, she slept a lot but I saw her eat and drink just fine then sleep again. By second day she was wobbling on one foot...

Good morning everyone, This is long and detailed so please bear with me. We've had chickens for the past three years. We lived in town at first, but were allowed to have them in our yard. We got 4 to start as chicks, they were free range, grew healthy and laid with no issues. When we moved from...

My speckled Sussex has had a large crop for probably 2 weeks, and with this being my first time with chickens, I thought she just liked to gorge herself on food. She kept doing the weird head/neck movements and I thought she was just trying to get her food to go down (I was wrong). So I finally...

This is...well...a bit of a rant post on top of maybe some suggestions as to what I can do. I made two orders of poultry, tallying 110 straightrun (and one rooster), so 111 chicks altogether, between Ideal Hatchery and Welp Hatchery. They both shipped Wednesday this past week, and...

Hello! I have had 10 baby chicks who were healthy and playing a lot but over the past couple of days they just seems to die. We now have 6 left and I'm so concerned. I have 5 baby chicks that just doesn't seems to be eating and I don't know why! I have to put their beak into water for them to...

Hi All, I am desperately looking for help. We have (had) three Cayuga Ducklings, about 4 months old now. We recently moved them outside with some older but not mature ducks of ours and they were doing great. Well, we went outside Saturday morning to find one of them all but dead, she wouldn't...

Hi All, I am desperately looking for help. We have (had) three Cayuga Ducklings, about 4 months old now. We recently moved them outside with some older but not mature ducks of ours and they were doing great. Well, we went outside Saturday morning to find one of them all but dead, she wouldn't...

Hi, I am new to the BYC community & am in desperate need of help. I have lost several chickens over past week and lost a few a couple weeks past. The first losses were birds around 20 weeks old. The vet diagnosed the problem as genetic and we thought that was the end. They had wing &/or leg...

Hello, everyone! I have little time for introduction as I am in DESPERATE need to figure out what to do! My mother has many chicken pens, and she loves her chickens to death. Yesterday, 2-3 chickens were attacked, carved out and feathers/ blood everywhere. Today, two chickens were found, barely...

A friend of mine found 3 ducklings wandering around her yard with no mother. She happened to bring one to my dads work, where he thought it belonged with another nest of ducklings outside his work. After placing it there he realized it didn't belong because it would run away from it rather than...

Hi, I am brand new to chickens. I just got my chicks in the mail today. I ordered 6 and 2 had died already. :( So now I have four, but one (named Gilly) is not doing so well. She is just sleeping and not as active as the other chicks. I read to give it sugar water and egg but how do I feed it...

I have a 14 hour old duckling who still isnt showing any signs of wanting to move?, he hatched on day 28 of incubation and since hatching it has just lay under the mother hen still with its eyes closed and only showes signs of life if i pickit up. Is he dying?? Can i save him??