Recent content by Daisy Chick

Thank you again Elaine, I am STILL waiting for the feed store to get the B complex I ordered. In the mean time I sprinkle brewers yeast on their food, putting vit E and selenium on sunflower seeds for the sick one (the quantity is vague as it eats so delicately I don't know how much it's...

Thank you for the second link Eggsessive.

Thanks for answering my "how to administer" question. I just squirted too much in it's mouth then found your reply. I think I get the hang of it now. I've read descriptions of wry neck and my bird doesn't put it's head down or between it's legs like described. Just repeatedly turning the head...

Thanks Fancychook, I have seen that list, oy... I probably should have taken her to the vet in the first place but it seems like a lot of vets don't know chicken stuff.

K. She probably won't register on a scale, still pretty small. I'll go with a drop. Thanks!

Sounds like you need B vitamins too ;) Thank you for all the info. I think it makes sense. I'll get the b complex. Do you open the chick's mouth by hand and drop it in? Forcing it to eat is the hard part for me cause I feel like I'm torturing it. Not sure what's hurting and what's helping...

Elaine, what am I treating and how do you get it down the throat? I used a syringe when I gave it Poly Vi Sol but it was hard to get it to drink it. Do you pry the beak open? I'm afraid of choking it or drowning it!

I just took this pic of its eye. The upper lid was infected and now it looks like part is missing which must be why it doesn't close. I trimmed the feathers above the eye cause the lid doesn't keep them out and the feathers would get plastered into the eye.

Hi Fancychooklady, There is swelling around the eye. No snot or sneezing though. She rubs her eye on her wing making it greesy looking and by doing so rubs the feathers over her eye into her eye and it's really hard to pull those little feathers out of her tender little eyeball! I've been...

She is holding steady I think. Sleeping in my pocket right now ;) I started her on Duramycin in her water yesterday in case it's upper respiratory.

Thanks for this much needed info.

Thank you Chicken Obsessed! I think your thread is one that I read and took notes from.

My chickens have a bad case of mites which I think they got from the wild birds. My chickens ate the fallen seed which I thought was great but they mingle with the wild ones. Lesson learned!