A mate of mine had a baby like this in their nest today and I'm curious to know what it is. Sadly it died as they were at work and were unable to get to it in time. I've never seen anything like it.

It looks to me like the parent fed them but only air come out. what do you think it is.

 

I've made it so you have to click the link because it may disturb some people.

 

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Edited April 8, 200916 yr by Pearce

Hmm I have no idea what would cause that.. probably a good idea to take it to have an autopsy to see what the issue was... it will be interesting to see how the otther chicks look...

Edited April 8, 200916 yr by JimmyBanks

I'm 90% confident its air filled crop. Just would like to see what other breeders think.

 

Thanks Jimmy.

It's not air in it's crop it's air sacs are inflating

 

I've had one who's had it before and I'm pretty sure there's some others on here who have had it. When you put the crop needle down into it's crop when it's alive you can see how there's a layer between the crop and where the air sacs are, they go all the way up under the beak etc unlike the normal crop

 

Vets can sometimes do a procedure to fix it and it can sometimes fix itself, but there's nothing really we can do for it and popping it with a pin aids it in no way as they'll just keep re-filling either way as my avian vet told me.

It's tummy is a yucky poopy yellow colour too, so may have had an intestinal infection with bacteria to produce the gas that inflated it like that.

Yes that's what I thought too Dr Nat it's tummy is a strange colour

I've seen chicks get that after being dead for a reasonable period of time... looks like it's just "decaying" to me