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One of our 10 week old chick's has an injury to her eye. I was out of town and my husband left them in the coop all day with our older hens so we suspect she was pecked. The eye is open, cloudy, and swollen, looks filled with fluid. Husband rinsed it with saline as did I when we got home. This...

We purchased some day old chicks this week and two had been pecked by other chicks and had their eyes closed. The first chicks eyes opened within a day as we were told would happen but after 4 days the second chick still had her eyes closed we had tried a warm damp cloth but that did not help...

I did some reading and I am guessing this little girl had pneumonia :( It an effort to exhaust all possibilities, I crushed a clove of garlic and mixed it with some colloidal silver and dipped her beak in this solution and she swallowed a tiny bit. About an hour ago I warmed some of the...

Hi I posted yesterday about our new bantam that were dying off. We bought 2 on Thursday, one died by Friday morning. Thinking it was a freak thing or maybe a bigger chicken stepped on it we bought another Friday. By Friday afternoon the chick from Thursday died. Yesterday, we gave our survivor...

Hi we have been raising chick's for years with never a problem. We bought several chick's a few weeks ago and they are great. Thursday we bought two bantam chick's and one died by Friday morning. We went and picked up another chicken yesterday to keep the remaining chicken company. Well, the...

I want to make just a pint for a single hen. I come up with needing .047 tsp per pint. Anyone have a good way to measure that small an amount. I have a scale that will measure kg but I am not sure I can convert tsp to kg.

We had a hen that did this for a while. She was around 2 when she started. she was still laying at the time. No idea why so I am no help but just thought I'd say you are not alone.

Thanks for the suggestions. I am not sure she even has an eye left, it's really hard to tell. She seems to be doing well as long as she is with the other girls. When she is not with them she is one down chicken. I let her out with them this am on the lawn and she immediately started preening...

Any other ideas out here? my vet said just wait and see. Her head is swollen above her ete, whats left of her eye is swollen, and there seens to be blood under her skin and coming out her nasal passages. she's desperate to get with her peeps but that's not safe. i tried it for 2 seconds and...

thanks I keep hoping someone will respond. Hey we are almost neighbors i'm a little south of Raleigh

I am new here, I did a search and didn't find quite what i am looking at here. Came home today to find dd's 8-12 week old ameracauna chick with a pulpy bulbous looking left eye. Closer look reveals what looks like blood pooling under the skin under her beak kind of where her chin would be if...