California - Northern

[ronott1]

So, curious if anyone in the central california area (San Luis Obispo County and the Bay area) raise and breed Cream Leghorns?

Cream Legbars? There are some with them. I have some from Santa Rosa that were sold through ebay.

 

[sewandgrow]

So, curious if anyone in the central california area (San Luis Obispo County and the Bay area) raise and breed Cream Leghorns?

If you mean Cream Legbars there are several on this thread that have them.

 

[Sylvester017]

They had stopped when I went back out to give them some scratch. So yet again I'm panicking when I should just take a deep breath.

Never assume you are panicking! Violent or even mild constant shaking of the head is nothing to ignore. It is indicative for so many chicken ailments from something easily remedied to the beginning of some more serious condition that if not diagnosed correctly can lead to the degradation of the bird's health if it continues untreated.

Bubbly eyes, nasal discharge and etc. are bad things. Shaking the head just happens sometimes. It could be ear mites but with yours it was likely the altitude change.

That gets me too.

Our new Blue Breda the same age as the new Blue Ameraucana were hatched and brooder mates together and coincidentally hung around together - a bond they had since chicks. However the Breda is way more calm and easily handled than the Blue Amer and actually curious about activity going on around her. We took the Breda to the vet for checkup today and she was totally undisturbed by the fuss - in fact she amused herself pecking at the dials on the weight scales and then proceeded to groom her feathers in the midst of us all in the exam room. The vet office male cat came up to sniff at her crate and she couldn't be bothered by the big black cat - she continued grooming herself after a quick look at him. The Amers better watch out or Bredas may soon become our "favourites" LOL.

The Breda continued shaking her head all through the night and it kept disturbing her Blue Amer flockmate in quarantine with her. I had an appointment for Thurs morning to take the Breda to the vet to check out the overly frequent and violent shaking head but she kept herself and the Blue Amer awake all through the night shaking so I took her on emergency this morning. I'm glad I did. The vet examined her and took a fecal sample. It wasn't altitude change but the stress of the flight and USPS that brought on a case of coccidiosis and he didn't want her to succumb to CRD which is so easily contracted by chickens in stress -- so I have liquid Baytril for her for 7 days. I researched that 95% of backyard flocks have CRD but the symptoms don't manifest in all the flock chickens as some are hardier than others - times of stress like being shipped cross-country, plopped into a new environment, climate/temperature extremes, etc, can cause a less hardy bird to succumb where her hardier flockmates may not. The vet has her and her quarantine flockmate on Tylan in their drinking water. Tomorrow after finding the results of the fecal test I may have to start Anbol (spelling?) medication too because she has watery stools (of course the Tylan is going to contribute to more watery stools for a few days also). I will be feeding Greek yogurt to them if they take to it which should help w/ flora-fauna of their GI.

This post is to share that the start of a shaking head in a chicken can be symptomatic for just about ANYTHING. As for treatment I would've preferred something more hollistic but my vet has saved a couple other of my hens in the last 2 yrs and we've come to have a good rapport w/ him. Since we found him we haven't lost a chicken since, knock on wood.

 

[Chrysolinsbirds]

What are bubbly eyes a symptom of?

 

[sporel]

Cream Legbars? There are some with them. I have some from Santa Rosa that were sold through ebay.

Ha, yes, legbars. I shouldn't type when tired

 

[tommysgirl]

@ronott1 do you have contact info for the SR CCL person?

 

[ronott1]

What are bubbly eyes a symptom of?

I have seen pictures of the bubbles. It starts at the tear duct and move up through the eye.

 

[ronott1]

@ronott1 do you have contact info for the SR CCL person?

I have an ebay contact. She has Reese line eggs on auction currently.

mary4_berry

 

[Chrysolinsbirds]

I have seen pictures of the bubbles. It starts at the tear duct and move up through the eye.

the bird I saw looked like little soap bubbles almost all over one eye... kinda freaked me out so I didn't buy any birds from there that day

 

[casportpony]

What are bubbly eyes a symptom of?

It can be a respiratory infection or sinus infection. This is one of mine:


He had a non-contagious sinus infection.

-Kathy