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  1. RebeccaS2010

    Eye Swollen Shut. Looks like pus. No respiratory symptoms noted. How to treat?

    I was doing orally. I will try 1/4 ml at a time.
  2. RebeccaS2010

    Eye Swollen Shut. Looks like pus. No respiratory symptoms noted. How to treat?

    Can’t see anything, but there is a small scab on the corner of her outer eyelid. So that may be causing irritation. No bad odor, rattling breathing, or sinus drainage. However, I am panicking slightly that she might have aspirated some of the sulfa antibiotic. 😳 I added electrolytes to her...
  3. RebeccaS2010

    Eye Swollen Shut. Looks like pus. No respiratory symptoms noted. How to treat?

    Hoping to bump this up in the posts for some new replies. We’ve been treating twice per day with saline, removing any pus we can, and putting in terramycin. Also started giving sulfa antibiotic orally (already had it on hand). Issue seems to be limited to the third eye lid. Eyeball seems fine...
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    Eye Swollen Shut. Looks like pus. No respiratory symptoms noted. How to treat?

    How do I treat this myself? I have terramycin ointment and saline solution. Is that sufficient? If so, how often? And how do best I wrangle a wild hen? 😅 This RIR hen is approximately 1.5 years old and basically unhandled. She seemed fine last night, but had one eye swollen and completely shut...
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    Need roach and ant control; Orange Guard? Nature-cide? Something else?

    They are the big palmetto bugs. I know they don’t hurt anything…but they will make me hurt myself. 😂 and I’d prefer they not use my house as a dating service! 😂 Thanks for the idea about the Terro bait! That may really help with the ant problem in the run!
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    Need roach and ant control; Orange Guard? Nature-cide? Something else?

    We are having a huge ant and roach problem in our run and coop. As in, there are a huge number of ants and a lot of huge roaches. 😳😅 We have a light in the run and occasionally go flip it on at night for a few minutes to wake up our girls for some quick roach snacks, but that’s not really an...
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    10wk old Ameraucanas: blue wheaten? Cockerels?

    These two are 10 week old Ameraucanas. They were supposed to be wheaten, but I’m thinking they are actually blue wheaten. I’m also thinking these are both boys, based on the dark colors, suspicious feathers in the saddle region, pointy hackles, and combs that have been this color for the past...
  8. RebeccaS2010

    Week-old Chick Shaking Head/Neck/Wings

    Any particular way you recommend getting the coconut oil into her?
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    Week-old Chick Shaking Head/Neck/Wings

    Good morning! My hubby and I bought some chicks to sneak under our broody hen. They hatched last Wednesday. We picked them up Saturday from the breeder and all seemed good except one had some poop on it’s bum. Sunday afternoon that one’s vent was completely blocked, so I cleaned off the poo. She...
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    What is you’re experience with differences in chicken /flock behaviour after the old boss has gone?

    It was horrible. We are fairly certain it was a raccoon, but there’s a possibility that it was a fox, too. There was some poop left at the scene and the critter had to climb up the wire and over the door to get in. That design flaw has since been corrected with a sturdy board and some new...
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    What is you’re experience with differences in chicken /flock behaviour after the old boss has gone?

    Back in August we lost 13 of our flock of 21 in one night, including our rooster. It took at least 4 weeks for flock dynamics to settle down, partly because we added 6 new pullets into the mix to rebuild. For a while we had 3 mini flocks: the 5 adult hens, the 3 remaining spring pullets we had...
  12. RebeccaS2010

    Molting and Sick?

    I looked up this thread just because I wanted to know if Sue was doing well! Glad she is looking better!
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    Behavior Change in First Molt?

    I didn’t mind at all @HeatherKellyB. I hope you were able to get some answers and that your Sue is doing well. My Barred Rock, one of the Americanas, and an Olive Egger all seemed a bit “off” as they went through their molt. They all hung back from the flock and moped around, even when I let...
  14. RebeccaS2010

    Jersey Giant Pullet or Cockerel?

    For anyone who answered “cockerel,” I thought you might want to know that you were correct. 😃 This is Jeepers at 5 months old. He still hasn’t crowed. He’s a big scaredy-chicken. Although he has quite the imposing stare, I don’t think he knows he’s a rooster...which has its good and bad points...
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    12 week GLW...pullet or cockerel?

    Since the amazingly knowledgeable folks in here correctly identified my Jersey Giant as a cockerel, I figured I’d ask about this young one. Pullet or cockerel? He/she is very bossy towards the others, and has been since about 6 weeks. The reddish of the comb started around week 9.
  16. RebeccaS2010

    Major attack - is this a bear?

    Thank you to everyone on here for your great advice. Has really been very helpful. Hopefully this can be a useful resource for others that go through a similar disaster! Sorry for your loss, but thought you might want to know that this has already been a great resource for me. We had our first...
  17. RebeccaS2010

    Behavior Change in First Molt?

    We have a blue Americana whose behavior has changed dramatically since yesterday. I noticed last night she was roosting up on a piece of wood in the run instead of in the coop, but it was early evening, so I don’t know if she moved later or stayed out. When I opened the door to let them free...
  18. RebeccaS2010

    Jersey Giant Pullet or Cockerel?

    We chose to put him down because his beak was shattered. He didn’t have any other major injuries, and if his beak had been fractured further toward the tip, we would have tried to save him. But it was split all the way up by his head. As for Jeepers, Operation Tame That Chicken has already...
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    Jersey Giant Pullet or Cockerel?

    I certainly hope he turns out to be nice; if not, he will have to find a new home. We’ve been wanting a new rooster for our girls when they free range. Our previous one had to be euthanized after the predator attack that took our other Jersey Giant. Now that I have some confirmation that he’s...
  20. RebeccaS2010

    Jersey Giant Pullet or Cockerel?

    This is Jeepers Cheepers...noisiest little thing and terrified of everything when it was smaller! Jeepers is 15-16 weeks old, and was raised by our broody hen in the run with the flock. I know the breed is a blue Jersey Giant, but I’m curious about gender. He/she is supposed to be a pullet, but...
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