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I'm sorry you lost him. I would guess some sort of cancer. Did you try a necropsy?

If it were the feed I would think I would have more problems in the winter than in the spring. I called the poultry dept at the nearest vet school and they were not helpful. They did say I could bring them a duck for necropsy and it would cost a couple hundred dollars. I would have to deliver...

Thank you. The thought of chemicals is terrifying and seems likely as the water is usually high and fast flowing when this occurs. But why don't the drakes or chickens ever get ill?

Another one now has the same symptoms of quietness and reluctant to move. I've isolated her. The first one has refused food and water. She is now open mouthed breathing. Based on my experience with this I feel like the only thing to do now is to put her down. I wish I knew what I am dealing with.

Thank you for your response. The ducks typically free range so much that they barely touch the feed I offer except for in the winter months. I do supplement with niacin when the ducklings hatch out, but that is just in may June July. I will offer this one supplements as I have her separated...

This female Muscovy is 10 months old. She loves staying in the creek overnight. The past 3 days had turned cold. She has slept in the coop with the other ducks and chickens. Yesterday warmed up but she did not go to the creek and spent the day sleeping near the coop. She drank some water but I...

The first one is buried. The second one I still have. And now another duckling has died so I have that one as well.

And now another duck has died. She was quiet yesterday, and didn't leave the coop/run area. She started showing some cyanosis within a couple of hours of her death last night. She was a hatchmate of the mother duck that died yesterday. The chickens and chicks are all doing fine. The rest of the...

I had thought botulism at first, but now I'm worried its DVE. Please, any thoughts would be appreciated. I am going to bury her shortly, so if there's something else I should be looking for it would be easier to look now...

I have lost 4 (out of 6) muscovy ducklings and now their mother in a span of a week. 2 ducklings are still alive and seem to be fine, but all the ducklings seemed fine.... Until they became weak and died within an hour. They were hatched on May 19. The mother looked off 2 days ago and started...

All I could find without lidocaine was polysporin for conjunctivitis. The antibiotics in it are gramicidin and polymyxin B. Non-medicinal ingredients are alcohol, benzalkonium chloride, poloxamer and propylene glycol. I'm not so keen about putting alcohol and propylene glycol in my own eyes let...

BNP is pretty much prescription neosporin...same ingredients. Made by Vetquinol. Prescribed for my cat. I'm in Ontario. I'll hold off on the aspirin - she weighs nothing. Unless, of course, she absolutely needs it. I think she was born with it or got a scratch within a couple of days. She's...

Thanks. I have a new tube of polysporin with lidocaine and lots of expired BNP... Shoot. It's going to be at least until tomorrow night before I can get into town to look for something better. I doubt I'll be able to get the terramycin where I live - they keep the good stuff for prescription...

Is there something I can give for pain management? The ulcer is obvious and she does keep that eye mostly closed. She is keeping up with her hatch-mates and her mother, eating and drinking, and everything is normal that way.

She gets her food in a dish and its watered down. She's a messy eater so she gets a tray. She can't seem to figure out the utensils though. lol

I have a cross-beaked 11 month old hen. I think her beak is more out of alignment than your pullet's. She did fine on her own for 9 months without any interference from me. By then her beak grew into a hook and she started to fail. I trimmed it and began feeding her away from the others for a...

My 2 year old Sussex rooster, Nole, died last night. He seemed off all day, only crowed once and sounded strange; he ate and drank well but kept laying down, and had watery poop. When I went to check on him at lock up, he was in a nest box. I checked him over and everything seemed okay. I placed...

Two or three days after I first saw it, I found it in some farm equipment and managed 2 shots with a pellet gun in its backside. It ran off and I didn't see it again. Every night I have been locking the chickens up tight in a space that's too small, but at least it is safe. I am building a...

That's what I'm afraid of!

Yesterday afternoon I watched what I thought was a black squirrel run towards a hen and her week-old chicks. The hen poofed up and ran at the creature. The black animal backed down, ran at her again, backed down again and ran away. As it ran away from the chickens and away from the underbrush, I...