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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...
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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...
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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...
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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??
So to start off with, the chicken in question in question is a 4 year old Americuana, slightly underweight, she's been separated from the rest of the flock for a while so we could treat a torn ligament that had prevented her from walking and abscess on the bottom of her foot. She got better...
Approximately 3 month old cochin bantam chickens bought as day old chicks at TSC
4 total have all died within hours of each other
There were no signs of lethargy or illness.
2 of my other birds are now appearing "slow" and don't seem to move as fast as normal.
There are no signs of trauma...
I really need some help. One of my cochin bantams died yesterday suddenly. I noticed no signs of lethargy, eating well, drinking well, and was top of her pecking order. White liquid came out of her mouth. I thought it may be ascites. However, today, 3 more cochin bantams passed today and I...
I ordered twenty six chicks of various breeds off of McMurray Hatchery's website sometime after Christmas. They arrived yesterday and minutes after being placed under the heat lamp I noticed several problems with the White-Crested Polish.
One of them died after ten or twenty minutes of being in...