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    chicken eye injury - puncture of eyeball

    Iris' eyeball seems to be healing, praise God, but the eyelid around the eyeball isn't happy. You probably already know, but you need a stupid prescription in order to get eye ointment now. So I am using people eye meds on the chicken, along with chlorine dioxide (made for pink eye). I am...
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    Please help! Bully chicken.

    MrEggHead, I had to look this up too. Never heard of it before I did a search. They are blinders for chickens that attach to the nostrils of the bully chicken. I just bought some for my bully rooster. Can't wait to try this. The bully rooster punctured the eye of one of the hens today. Too soon...
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    I have a bully hen

    I am reading this thread and saw "pin less peepers" and said, "what?" I looked it up. These are blinders for chickens, attached to their nostrils. How clever! I just bought a bag of 25 from MacMurray Hatchery. I will give this a try on my problem rooster.
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    Raising chickens on hobby farm since Jun 2023.

    Raising chickens on hobby farm since Jun 2023.
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    Rooster Aggression Directed at One Hen

    I have a similar situation and would appreciate advice. I read all the responses above, and I will try some of this. Here is the situation. I have 2 older hens (production RIRs) that bullied the chicks that I hatched (heritage RIRs, 11 in the new group, 9 hens, 2 roosters, all grew up together...
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    chicken eye injury - puncture of eyeball

    It looks like one of my heritage RIRs (6 months old) got pecked in the eye which punctured the eye. It must have happened this morning, and the liquid leaked out and was slightly bubbly. I assume there is nothing i can do except maybe put some antibiotics in the eye. And pray. Anyone ever have...
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