It gets cold here in New Hampshire (it's been in the single digits at night lately and it's only November)! I use heavy rubber bowls in all my coops year round. They're easy to clean, they are sturdy enough for a hen to stand on the rim and not tip it over, and best of all in the winter when...
It took a while for the eye wound to heal up, probably a month or so. I kept my hen in solitary so I could keep her clean, needed to dab the eye area with a clean, moist cloth 2 or 3 times a day to keep the goo from building up too much. Usually mornings were the worst. I did not use oral...
Thank you for the reply. My girl seems totally unfazed.
She will remain in "the box" until the eye is completely healed, but she's eating, drinking and laying like nothing ever happened. The only thing I notice is she only eats from the back side of the feeder, the side with the good eye can see...
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To tmfineg: I know this is a year later, but what ever happened to your one-eyed chick? Is she doing better? I ask, because I've been nursing my beautiful buff cochin because someone pecked her eyelid. I've had her in confinement, but at night she sleeps with her sister. This...