This little Tolbunt Polish Frizzle hatched yesterday mid-morning. She is very, very tiny and has a strange looking nostril area on her beak that I do not know if it's normal. We've left her in the incubator and she's been sort of a lump, which I know is pretty normal for a couple of days. I...
Hi backyard chicken friends,
I wanted to post an update about my little buddy Kirk. For three days I cleaned his eye, used a warm compress, salt water 1x per day and the Vetrecyn eye gel 2x a day and while the redness around the eye seemed like it had improved his actual eye seemed to be getting...
This sounds great! I will do this 3x a day starting now. I just went out and it looks as though the stye white pustule is gone - maybe popped from the warm compress I did earlier? In any case I'll start the salt water washes. Thank you so much for your reply!
From what I understand the Vetercyn is a "natural" type product and not antibiotic. Can I use an antibiotic eye ointment for humans or I need to get one that is specifically for birds?
Hello backyard chicken friends,
I have a gosling with an eye issue and I hope you can help me!
Deets:
-- 4 month old male Roman Tufted gosling. Normal weight and seemed normal until yesterday morning.
-- Yesterday morning when we let the animals out of the barn he was holding the left eye...
Thank you for the replies. I am happy to report that nothing happened!
I was so stressed out yesterday on my hands and knees sifting sand trying to remove as many as possible. I would look up to the girls digging and eating all around me and shoo them away from me. I grabbed as many as I could...
This morning I found a 2 kilo plastic bag of dry black beans in my pantry filled with bugs. I gave it to my husband and asked him to throw it out. He decided on it would make good treats for the chickens and proceeded to throw it around in the chicken coop where the chickens started eating it...
Good morning everyone,
Thank you so much for all of the good advice. I sadly do not have good news this morning. She didn't make it. She was still tucked up under her mom when I got her but it seemed as though she just didn't make it. Her toes and feet were still wrapped up in a ball and the...
Hi Ren,
As of this evening she was still alive. Under mom and chirping softly. But sadly her feet have still not unfurled at all and the herniated area was still the same. I gave her a little tuck up under mom before I locked them in for the night. I don't have new pics though because I was...
Hi MissLydia!
So I successfully removed the shell and she pushed her way out. There was no blood whatsoever but there was a lot of slime that smelled rotten. But... the gosling doesn't seem normal to me. She's very shaky and can't unroll her feet. They're all clenched up. She also seems to have...
Thank you Ren2014! I appreciate the response. Yes, it is the shell on the left and the head on the right. Sorry for the terrible picture but I did not want to disturb the hen currently keeping it warm!
After I assist it getting out should I put it back under the hen?
Thanks again,
IE
Hi Everyone,
I posted this under emergencies, but then I found this thread and thought someone here might be able to help me.
I had 4 goose eggs under a broody hen because my goose did not go broody. This hen did a reasonably good job except she pooped on the eggs in week 2. I very carefully...
Hi Everyone,
I had 4 goose eggs under a broody hen because my goose did not go broody. This hen did a reasonably good job except she pooped on the eggs in week 2. I very carefully cleaned the eggs but it was a big mess and I knew that this had compromised the eggs by blocking oxygen to the...
Thanks Latestarter!
That is exactly what I needed to hear! I guess shortly after performing the surgery (a bit shell shocked) I was really second guessing. But a few minutes ago I went to check on her and she was standing in her little cell with the "pleassse let me out!" look on her face...
I have a 1 year old hen, Uhura, who seemed to me completely normal until yesterday afternoon when I noticed one of her feet was a bit swollen. She had not been limping at all and was laying every day as normal. She is not a friendly chicken and is the very lowest on the pecking order so I don't...
Hi,
Thanks for asking. Yes, he's doing a little bit better. I had him on an activated charcoal flush for 2 days and now he's on sav-a-chick electrolytes. I've been separating him during the day and then letting him out to swim in the afternoon with his buddies. Although he's still uneasy on his...
Tevyes Dad,
Miss Lydia answered my PM and thinks it's either that he ate something bad or has a deficiency of niacin. I've got him on an activated charcoal cleanse and sav-a-chick electrolytes. Hopefully he'll pull through.
Thank you so much for the help!
Iron Eagle
Marlene,
Miss Lydia answered my PM. I have him drinking activated charcoal and sav-a-chick electrolytes. She thinks it's either he ate something bad or is deficient in niacin.
Hopefully he'll pull through!
Thanks so much.
IronEagle