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    Blind Baby Chick

    Something similar has happend with one of my newborns, I thought I might have to put her down, but I will care for her for a few days and hope that like yours she regains her sight!
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    Help - baby chick with eye injury

    Thanks very much for the advice. She is not the healthiest little chick, and I am worried that she won't recover enough to be able to follow the mother once she gets off the eggs.
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    Help - baby chick with eye injury

    Australia. We haven't had many injuries or illnesses in the last three years having chickens (luckily), so when it happens I have no idea what is going on. If the eyeball is pierced do they lose sight in that eye? The fluid is gone now and the eye is closed.
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    Help - baby chick with eye injury

    At the moment he has a couple of thin strips of band-aid loosely over his eye to prevent pecking, when I change those I will wash with saline and apply something to prevent infection. Any more advice greatly appreciated!
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    Help - baby chick with eye injury

    Thanks for the reply. I don't have terramycin, is it anti-bacterial?
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    Help - baby chick with eye injury

    Another angle
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    Help - baby chick with eye injury

    Hi there, Our hen has finally managed to have chicks without turning on them, but she gone very distressed yesterday and trod on a just hatched chick who now has an eye that seems injured with a bloody bubble on its surface. The chick needs help to prevent pecking (or further pecking) by the...
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    Help - trying to save eggs from a murderous broody

    I will they have been handed over so i can nap, and I will keep hoping for the best. Also made an investment in a little incubator. Obviously not going to help this time, but when Goldie broods or co-broods again I want to be able to save the chicks. The sad part is Goldie co-mothered with...
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    Help - trying to save eggs from a murderous broody

    Not sure. I kept them warm overnight, but I am unsure if something (heat, humidity, constancy) was off. Haven't heard anything from the chirping one since late last night. Keeping it up for today, and keeping my fingers crossed.
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    Help - trying to save eggs from a murderous broody

    I don't have a heating pad, just hot water bottles. I am generally unprepared for this sort of thing, sadly.
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    Help - trying to save eggs from a murderous broody

    Hello! :frow When I replaced the hot water bottle there was some very indignant chirping, so I am hopeful but I am trying not to be too hopeful. I did candle a few hours ago (which is when I first heard the chirping), and I couldn't see a beak shadow then. But I will be patient, monitor the...
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    Help - trying to save eggs from a murderous broody

    I mothered an abandoned chick last year, but she was 3 weeks old (a snake got into the run and afterwards her mother rejected her), so that will be a new challenge for us. Well I am in eastern Australia, so that is a little distance away! Thanks so much for the suggestions. She is still...
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    Help - trying to save eggs from a murderous broody

    Goldie is definitely the culprit, she did this last time she brooded. I tried to get Lily to sit on them as my first option, but she wouldn't. She has some nasty pecks on her head - I presume from Goldie - and she was a bit distressed by everything. Lily is young, and this was her first attempt...
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    Help - trying to save eggs from a murderous broody

    We only have LED bulbs unfortunately. If necessary I guess that might work with the sofa and damp towel overnight. I am hoping to keep them going with the towel and hot water bottle, I just have to monitor the temprature constantly.
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    Help - trying to save eggs from a murderous broody

    Thanks for your reply, no heat lamp either, our chickens handle everything on their own usually, so i don't have the equipment lots of people do. I have got a damp warm hand towel over them now ( thanks for that), and I will change the bottle regularly so the heat is as constant as I can make...
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