Im very sorry to say that the vet called..the infection from the seed had eaten into his brain...He died in surgery..It is quite heatabreaking,...He was a lovely rooster and chook...thanks for all your support, and people if a chook does get this, make them get checked out straight away, to stop...
Okay hes at the vet....He has an absense...and it needs to be drained....Any one with the same problem...Get them to a vet...As if not, you may get rid of the pus..But the scratch...grass seed is still there, making it more infected
Okay hes at the vet....He has an absense...and it needs to be drained....Any one with the same problem...Get them to a vet...As if not, you may get rid of the pus..But the scratch...grass seed is still there, making it more infected
I believe you have a more sinister threat...Maybe a gang or raccoons, to break that much...Also something, like a wild dog, who kill for fun.
Hope you catch something----(ps.Further info for My chook please...I know ishoundn't be posting that here, but im desperate)
Hi one of my chickens (a lot isgoing on at the farm right now) is hopping. I checked out it's leg and it is pretty much peeled like a potato..What could of happened..she is still healthy jumping around like a maniac...Please help, Boo is a favoured family pet...QWhat could of attacked her
This once happened to me, one off my hens vanished without leaving and predator traces. I know she had went broody. She returned 10 days later down near the dam. But after being locked up for a week, she went and sat on eggs again, but this ime I don't know where.(because i don't know where the...
This once happened to me, one off my hens vanished without leaving and predator traces. I know she had went broody. She returned 10 days later down near the dam. But after being locked up for a week, she went and sat on eggs again, but this ime I don't know where.(because i don't know where the...
But this mum didn't do that with the other 7 chicks it has hatched. It is a belgian d'uccle.
well the baby was born aqwardly as it fell out of the nest half hatching.
Ants went over to it and strting to try and kill it.
I found it squarming with ants, and quickly ripped it out of the shell
I...
hello, yestarday I hatched a chick, It as a strange hatch nearly dieing, from falling out of the nest. Anyway I moved the chick to a new cage with its (3 time brooder) mum. I checked on the check at lunch, it was happy. Two hours from now it isgone.
1. The cage wire is so small, even the day...
Just reporting what hapened when mum and i did it....Well a lot of pus, came out in seperate lots (about a marble lot), his face is still the same size, but he seems a bit relieved..He is now isolated. His eye is now covered with cheesy pus, but a lot came out.
How often should i do this>>
Are...