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Thanks. He’s getting very strong and antsy in that indoor coop. He needs to be back on the barn coop. We’ll take it slowly.

Nope. Midwest. Thank you.

Went to the vet again. A different vet this time. The senior person. They sedated him and examined his eye. She came back and said there was no more debris in the eye, the infection seemed to be gone but that his cornea had been perforated and she doubted he would ever restore his vision in that...

We went ahead and made another appointment with the head vet tomorrow morning. I did get a call from the vet who worked in his eye last week and it almost seemed like she didn’t believe me that we got a piece of wood out. She said maybe he got it in there after she looked in his eye. I said he’s...

My husband wants to call the vet and tell her that the day after we were in there for her to look at his eye he pulled a 1/4” piece of wood chip out of his eye. That he thinks there is still something in there and we’d like to bring him in again to see what else is still in there. We hope she’d...

I might be able to get them from the avian vet who treated him (who didn’t find the wood chip). 😡

We’ve been keeping up 2 400 IU capsules E a day. The food supplement the vet gave us has selenium. I crunched up a hazel nut which is a good source too. We’ve been thinking the swelling of the eye both inside and out of the head has to be putting pressure on the brain. It’s down a lot but it’s...

We’ll here we go again. The cockerel was doing so well this morning we decided to carry him out and put him in the coop with his two hens for a short visit. He had been eating and drinking the whole day before. He hadn’t put his head down and rolled in two days. When we put him down in the...

That is so encouraging. Thank you. How do you know so much? You’re amazing!

He seems stronger today. He’s slept several times with his head tucked under but not in the ground. He seems to be eating constantly. But we never see him drunk and there are no food kernels in his water. If I put A bowl under his chin while holding him on my lap, he’ll suck water up. But he...

Thank you.

First time I’ve seen him hold his tail up in a week. Females will do that to them. 😂

Ok. He’s eaten almost that much today so that’s good. We took him outside and put him outside of the run where his hens are. They came up to the fence and seemed so happy to see each other. A lot of happy clucking going round! They tried to get to each other. He only fell once. I think he’s...

To azygous and wyorprock and all the others you were concerned and helped so far. I agree with you totally. We are going to stop the syringe feeding and try to add the supplement to a little dampened mash. The supplement has selenium in it along with the Bs. I’m still giving him extra E but...

PS. the crud on his face is from us syringe feeding him. He shakes his head and it flies everywhere. We try to clean him up afterward but it’s sticky goo. 😂

We’ll. We’re somewhat encouraged today. After syringe feeding him his soaked feed mixed with vitamin E selenium, and his emerIC, we put him in his basement pen. He walked over to the feed and started eating it. He must have pecked and swallowed for ten minutes. We put water under his beak but...

Thanks for your suggestions. We’ve flushed the eye and tried to look. We see nothing. He’s still very strong and fights us when we try to look in his eye. It’s watery inside there but no more pus. I doubt he ate anything moldy. The coup has been used for many of our chickens. But it’s been...

My guess is it got in there by him scratching his head or one of his hens scratched in the wood chips and it flew in there and lodged. No idea. 🤷‍♀️ He’s actually opening his eye. Not sure if he’s blind yet because if the trauma and infection. The swelling is down. His wry neck has not...

An update. We got home tonight to feed our cockerel. I noticed while I was holding him that the points on his comb that used to be bright red are a redish purple. A couple looked bluish. It also looks slightly curved over. Pictured below is his normal color. Otherwise he’s acting the same. What...