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My 6 year old silkie has been tucking her head under her left wings a lot lately. She is blind from her right side (when we took her to the vet initially he said that that was because something hit her eye as there was a white spot in the eye). However, similar symptoms are...
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i have two pet chickens who absolutely refuse to eat their layer feed. They will eat absolutely anything else, I mean they prefer our budgies feed to their own.
This started quite recently and i do not know why they are doing this.
How do i get them to eat their own feed?
Thank...
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We just noticed today that there is another whitish layer of some sort of liquid that is developing over her eye so i guess she may be actually blind from one side.
She does open that eye when she is moving around or jumping but i think that's more reflexive than her actually...
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Recently my 5 year old pet silkie (snowball) got something in her right eye (roughly 9 days back). It was severly swollen and had alot of pus in it similar to the picture below (picture 1). Since then the pus on top of her eye has hardened and with light pressure we were able to...
Hello, one of my silkies eye is infected/ injured. Were not exactly sure of its cause. We did take her to the vet who put her on 2 antibiotics and pain meds but he was unsure of its cause too as he does not specialize in poultry.
Her eye is very swollen and has alot of pus inside. When we...
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Could anyone reccomend a way for me to find a vet in the Greater Toronto Area (Canada). I've called all of the local vet areas in the region and none look at chickens and were very unhelpful when I asked if they knew any vets that did look at chickens. I cannot find any vetranarins...
Thank you for your quick reply. We do not have any cockroaches in our area but are cockroaches the only way a bird can get an eyeworm? Also what would be the ideal treatment for eyeworms?
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I am really concerned about my silkie. She is about 6 years old and has recently started keeping one of her eyes shut. She seems to be eating and drinking fine. However, there is a white spot in her eye. If you look closely at the top left of her eye there appears to be a white...