Recent content by BlueLineClucker

We have been keeping an eye on it, the wound is still open and we keep having to scrape the material out every so often. The swelling has gone Way down, we can see his eye again! We scrape it out and clean it with iodine and blue kote, then fill it with MediHoney (medical honey) recommended by a...

If ours pulled ‘attitude,’ I think I’d do the same. I caught ours creeping back towards our coop the other day, he quickly left when I started making noise.

I put her down tonight. Took her outside when I got home from work, thought she may perk up if she could head her buddies and be out in the grass. She opened her eyes for a quick moment and just sat back down and went back to sleep. She hasn’t eaten in days. After checking her cage when she was...

Were not putting her back with her mates, I’d hate for her to pass whatever this is on to them. She’ll drink tiny sips from a cup, almost like she is only dipping her beak. She won’t open her eyes to eat, we’ve put food in front of her, around her, etc...but she’s got no interest. Weve treated...

Not sure what else to do. She has stopped drooling on herself and is standing up, eyes still closed refusing to eat. I’m going to take her out for some fresh air tonight, I think we are down to the end. Nobody else is sick. Not sure what happend.

I don’t mind this guy, he can take a few eggs today and we will be more aware from here on out. I’d rather have him than a ‘bad snake,’ and regardless what we do...if they want to get in, they will find a way. I hope your mothballs work for you. I personally can’t stand the smell, but I know...

Our guineas wander all over the neighborhood, they aren’t here this morning. I’m not sure that the chickens didn’t leave this guy alone because he is so big? Maybe they have been killing the smaller ones and I haven’t seen it? I don’t mind that either. I’m glad to have this guy, but I know that...

Moved this guy out of our coop today. We pick up eggs early in the morning, found this guy when I brought some scraps out to my ladies later in the morning. I couldn’t figure out why my husband put our garden hose in the coop...until I saw how big it was...and it moved. This guy will eat...

It’s just been penicillin and rest. She’s been drooling on herself, both eyes closed. Although she’ll stand and drink water, that’s about all we get. Some lady said it’s like parvo, but for chickens. That it will appear to get better but will take a turn for the worse. I don’t know what to do...

Thank you, we got her to take tiny sips of water today...but nothing else. Her eyes are very red and the bad one has pretty much sealed shut despite the ointment. How do you tube feed? Just mix food with water? Do you use a straw or what? I sure hope she pulls through. I’m partial to her.

One member of our flock started with a droopy eye. Had it for awhile, we didn’t think much of it. Yesterday, it was closed completely, she wouldn’t eat or drink. Put her in isolation and put ointment on the eye, which has begun to swell. Today the eye is caked, she is heavily lethargic and just...

We put more information down, can you help? The abscess has been cut and the scab fallen off leaving the sore open. We have removed solid, yellow, puss from inside the sore, but it’s clinging to the sides of the sore. How can we loosen that puss and clean it out? What do we do from here?

We cut the abscess in front and dig down deep to get a hard boiled egg yolk like material, I assume abscess puss? We cleaned it out as best we could but it is still clinging to the inside of the hole. The hole broke open, scab fell off and now he’s fully exposed. How do we get more of the egg...

Update, we lost our little chick this morning. He just kept getting worse and didn’t make it though the night. Very sad. I appreciate everyone’s advice. Hopefully, next round will go much better

We recently lost a nest of guinea eggs to a neighborhood dog, the eggs we saved were out under our broody chicken. She has hatched 2, one chicken, one guinea. The chick looks ‘normal’ with the exception that it does not have the use of 1 leg. The leg is at an odd angle and the chick hobbles...