Maybe if the rooster lets you (best time would be at night while he's sleepy) you could try to open the eye to see if there is a foreign object still in there and try to take it out?
I don't know. Probebly try to keep the area around it clean? I would clean the area with cotton dipped in chamomile tea. You could even just use the teabag to squeeze tea into and around his eye. We use that for humans with pink eye. Chamomile has natural antibiotics and helps get rid of germ...
I don't know about the other breeds you mentioned, but I have silver and wheaten Ameraucana bantams. I got the wheaten ones because I thought they were so pretty. They are! I love looking at them. They are beautiful! But for some reason they seemed to be the most shy of all my chickens. I got a...
I found the Ledum at our store but decided to wait another day and try mixing some goldenseal powder with the herbal salve I had used. I probebly should not have waited because prolonging the treatment might have made it harder to get rid of the swelling or infection if it settled in. The next...
Thanks for the suggestion. I accually work at a health food store and am trying to learn more about different remedies. I will have to see if we have some Ledum there. Thanks again!
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One of my bantam hens hasn't looked like she was feeling the best today. This evening I picked her up and looked at her more closely. Her earlobe is really swollen. Right beside her swollen earlobe was a big tick. I am assuming that that is what caused the swelling. I pulled the tick off...
Hi! I have never hatched out chicks before or had a sitting hen so I'm not sure when the eggs should be hatching. My bantam hen decided to start sitting so I took her inside the house and let her sit on some eggs in a cardboard box. I gave her three eggs from larger hens (all different kinds)...
I have been looking for egg cartons to sell my bantam chicken eggs in, and can't seem to find any for sale anywhere. Does anyone know of a place I can order them from? I have seen quail egg cartons. Would bantam chicken eggs fit in these?
Thanks!