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Thanks! We’ll research chicken eye pus and work on it.

The thing is, I get the impression she’s not going to make it, but I don’t know why. Did she just go blind after getting beat up by the other chickens?

These are the best I can get right now… the other eye is fine.

I’m happy to report she is still alive. The bound egg broke right after my last post and we were sure that was it, but she is fine now. She hasn’t laid again, but everything is working well. The only think still going on is her eye. It looks like maybe her third eyelid is staying shut? Her other...

Just crush it up? Dilute I water and put in a syringe?

She’s now had two baths. I can feel the egg and she seems to enjoy the massaging, but it’s not moving. She relaxes totally in the water and falls asleep, but there’s been no movement on the egg front. It’s just so sad to see her like this. She’s refusing to eat or drink.

My 1.5 yr old Easter egger is trying to sleep standing up. She was roaming the yard yesterday, but did take a nap by herself. It was kind of odd, but hot, so I wanted to keep an eye on her. Today, she had one eye swollen shut and some feathers that were obviously pecked (some of her cheek...

I hope it stays intermittent so the neighbors don’t get upset, but it’s not as loud and it’s becoming one of my favorite chicken quirks to date!

Our Sebright has more personality than several of our other girls combined. She’s a doll.

She’d make a steely-eyed ruler if she were bigger than my other girls, that’s for sure. She’s a fun one

I’ve noticed a lot of sebrights and bantams mentioned when I search crowing hens and kind of wondered if there was any correlation. She’s such a cutie next to the big girls giving it her all.

No, I guess I just didn’t expect it from a low girl on the totem pole?

I have a similar situation with one of my sebright hens who is actively laying as well as crowing. She’s not the dominant hen (and is at least half the size of any other bird in the flock). It doesn’t seem to be affecting her ability to lay, but I don’t know what her deal is. Has she continued...

I’ve got a 1.5 yr old Sebright hen who is a pretty good layer by breed standards. She goes broody every time she goes off lay. She’s just come back into lay in the last week or so, but has started crowing from time to time. I know this can be a lack of rooster/dominance thing, but she is our...

I learn something new with every chicken we get!