Thanks so much for the advice and the hope @Roosterinthecity I really appreciate it. We call her Wink, and we would be perfectly fine if she had the outcome yours had. We are providing electrolytes daily as well, and she is gaining weight, but I noticed she does take cover if the other chicks...
Hi @dawg53, I saw you post about taking Amoxicillin in a similar thread about a rooster whose eye was pecked. I have an almost two week old chocolate Orpington that was shipped and seems to have sustained a pecking injury. We’ve been flushing with warm sterile saline 2x a day, using a warm...
I wanted to attach a couple more pictures my husband took this morning when I was doing her treatments. I’m able to move both eyelids now, however, I noticed in the corner towards her neck (2nd pic shows a close up on the top side of picture), it actually looks like the “film” or possibly skin...
Also, from what I can see of the eyeball underneath, it looks all black, I can’t really tell if there’s an iris at all. Last night was the first night though that I could separate and move the upper eyelid to really rinse it, which she liked.
Thank you @Eggcessive for your response. It does look like the eyeball is still in there, but looking at the first pictures it does look like there is a black “t” wound across the eyeball, unless that’s the puncture itself. I also asked Meyers if it was a birth defect, or possibly a slice when...
Hi all! I’m new to BYC, however, I’ve been looking up amazing advice here since 2014. We are a family of four and like many, started with 6 chicks and ending up with 20, lol.
Well, last week we received our first ever shipped chicks, 16 of them (to meet the minimum of course). We ordered...