Hey Tookie,
I just wanted to reach out and say thanks for all your help and follow up with our sick chick. The swelling in her eye has almost disappeared completely without any antibiotic treatment. She still has a little nasal discharge, but very minimal. There are others outside occasionally...
Hey Tookie,
the other chicks seem to be fine for now. I know there is a 10 day window to watch for others to develop symptoms. The affected one has been eating and drinking normally. We did a flush of the eye last night and applied more Terramycin and Neosporin. The swelling seems unchanged, so...
Hello Eggcessive,
I'm loving all these egg puns. That did cross my mind too. I do have some injectable Tylan 50 that I can give instead. I do not plan on breeding or selling eggs from the flock. I will treat them accordingly and deal with it as it comes on again.
Thank you for the reply!
So there are still tiny bubbles, but I have an older chick (13 weeks) displaying upper respiratory symptoms such as nasal discharge and a severely swollen eye on the left side. I originally thought maybe Coryza, but I was reading on some other forums that the mucosa discharge normally has an...
Hey,
I have a 10-week-old barred rock bantam chick that has had a watery eye for at least 2 weeks. It seems to be eating and drinking okay, and the other eye is fine. It started out with some little bubbles on the inner lid and now it looks like some of the inside tissue of the eye is slightly...
Hello Ursuline Chick,
That is a great suggestion. One of the reasons why I decided to add to my flock was because I only had roosters (no hens) from my one incubation attempt. So maybe this time around, I will get a few hens that can do this part for me. Although I must admit, I may miss the...
Hello Lemon drop,
I didn't dip their beaks in water immediately like I should have because I didnt know I was suppose to do that. I tried to compensate for this on day 3, after I had already lost a few, and I think it may have led to one aspirating -so I was scared to do it again. However, I...
Hello,
I have successfully incubated and raised a few chicks in the past. When I was starting out a few years ago, I learned that some of the mistakes that resulted in chick deaths could have been avoided, had I researched more.
Well, I decided to grow my flock last week (since I was blessed...