emergency care

  1. wednesdaythechicken

    6 Week Old Chicken Tourette’s?

    I have a 6 week old California gray. Since I got her she shakes her head to one side dragging her beak. Today she started hiccuping/convulsing with no noise. She falls over with horrible balance and she retracts her neck and has this tick that is involuntary and surprises her. It seems like she...
  2. emmsx3

    Baby Chick Drinking Water But Not Eating

    Hello, This will be long but I hope you all will bare with me. I have a one month old chick (just made one month on November 13th) and she's been doing really well during her first weeks til now since we have been raising her. Just recently she had an injury when my mom was bringing her in the...
  3. Kenzi Green Design

    White Tube Like Thing Hanging From Hens Vent!!

    Not sure what to do or what this is. (Graphic photo ahead) I researched a lot but there are so many different possibilities, it does however resemble an intestine in my opinion.
  4. C

    Duck with limp leg

    Found my 4 month old duck this morning in the coop just laying there. I thought that was weird as everyone else was up and walking around, ready to be let out for the day. We have a mixed coop with ducks and chickens. I went over and the poor thing seems to be lame in it’s left leg. Most...
  5. C

    My Chicken Isn't Moving Around Much and Squawks When She Does

    Hello everyone! Can someone please help me to understand what is going on with one of my sweet chickens? She stayed in her nesting box most of the day, so I placed food next to her so she would eat something. Then she came out, ate a little bit more, and would squawk, as if she was in pain. Is...
  6. F

    Help!!! What is this?

    What is going on with this baby!!???
  7. M

    Chicken Attacked Exposed Crop

    Help! My favorite girl was just attacked by a dog and I think her crop may have been severely injured. Needing some advice before I put her down. Does this look like her crop has been eaten away? Graphic pic!
  8. jsroxz

    Baby duck possibly ill? Please give advice!

    So... I have been lurking on this site for quite some time throughout the 12 days i’ve owned ducklings. I am definitely one to freak out at the smallest sign of illness or issue in my animals- and I have SO MANY questions. Bare with me while i give some background but for now, i’m going to try...
    • jsroxz
    • Thread
    • breathing difficulties breathing fast duck advice duck breathing duck help duckling duckling breathing hard duckling issues emergency care sick duckling
    • Replies: 19
    • Forum: Ducks
  9. P

    EMERGENCY

    If anybody can help!!! It’s very early in the morning and the smallest chick of my two week old clutch is too weak to stand, won’t open his eyes and is gasping periodically. He had an incident earlier where he was nearly killed ( as he is the runt) but he seemed to be doing okay up, walking...
  10. R

    Sick chicken

    I have a6 year old rooster that started limping a few weeks ago, thought nothing of it at the time since he had no noted injuries. Few days ago he is having very hard time walking as if his joints are painful, his wattles are swollen and he has dark spots on his comp/mild swelling as well. His...
  11. Holden Parris

    Egg bound hen

    I have a egg bound hen, she’s been acting weird since Thursday but it wasn’t until today that I realized that was why. Her abdomen is really hard, and she’s very lethargic and doesn’t really eat or drink. I read about soaking her in warm water and giving her some extra calcium and her own dark...
  12. C

    HELP

    My chicken (unknown-mixed breed) that I recently rescued has always appeared in perfect health but this morning she started limping. She still has her appetite and she’s still sassy as ever, I thought she might have Bumblefoot and looked for all the tale-tell signs and didn’t see anything after...
  13. Faverolle Lover

    Egg Bound Silkie

    I have a little one year old Silkie that I believe is egg bound. A few days ago I felt a Gary lump in her abdomen and I got really excited for her first egg... It's been a few days and still no egg. She's stopped eating a lot and she will barely walk. When I feel her abdomen the egg is...
  14. Kaidorke

    How to care for exhausted chick

    hi there, first time incubating and hatching. about 3 maybe 4 hours ago i had to hatch a chick, he was on day 23 and the membrane had turned yellow/brown so it started to dry out and also stick to him. Hes now fluffed up but still has some goo on him here and there. He was very exhausted, i was...
    • Kaidorke
    • Thread
    • advice advice needed curled foot emergency care exhuastion hatching help incubated chicks newly hatched sick chick
    • Replies: 1
    • Forum: Incubating & Hatching Eggs
  15. Kaidorke

    Day 23 and chick is struggling to hatch, I unzipped - not sure what to do now

    hi there, This is my first time incubating and hatching all on my own. Other times was the agriculture class project at school a couple of years ago. I have one egg who has made a hole in is shell, I can see it’s beak and he is chirping away. It was like this for 2 days so I thought I should...
  16. Outbackchickengal

    Cracked egg inside our chicken

    Hello. Yesterday we noticed that one of our girls had a protruding vent. We separated her from the other cleaned the area with warm water and salt and than applied honey and isolated her in a crate in the dark so she could heal. Well this morning my mom noticed she was egg bound and...
  17. sarahb19243

    Snake regurgitated two live Quail

    We had a snake crisis this afternoon. At about 3:00 I went to go feed our chickens and saw a black snake in our quail pen. It had already killed and ate one of our 10 quail. (We took this one down the road to relocate).We went to TSC to go get rabbit wire to replace the chicken wire on the quail...
  18. R

    Emergency Grit

    I got my first chicks ever six days ago. I fed them some mealworms yesterday and today without realizing that they needed grit! I can go to the feed store first thing tomorrow to get some, but I'm really worried about them between now and then. Should they be fine between now and then? One of...
    • Rosemary520
    • Thread
    • chicks emergency emergency care grit help help chick help chick issue mealworms
    • Replies: 3
    • Forum: Raising Baby Chicks
  19. riversbendhen

    Large Abscess on my Bantam's Breast

    Concerned about this large abscess on our little bantam's breast/neck. Been watching it for a few days and it is rapidly growing. Found a couple of scabs underneath it. It is oblong and hard, Anyone have any advice? She acts fine but it can't be comfortable!
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