California - Northern

[PetRock]

Velcro their feet!

Kidding!..Sometimes they behave for you and sometimes they do not.

I was laying on my side to get this one:

Cute!!! You do what you gotta do!

 

[ronott1]

i don't think I could get penedesenca chicks to do that lol
also the little Crele Penedesenca x silver ameraucana chicks look like silver ameraucana chicks but act like Penedesenca chicks lol

That would be this one:



It makes an "I am terrified" noise when I pick it up. The Force Penedesenca genes is are strong in this one....

 

[SilkiesForEver]

Many of our 4-H kids have shown mix-breeds or birds with DQ's in showmanship. Our judge is looking at how you work with your bird, (a difficult bird that was coaxed to walk past the judges clipboard rather than giving up or getting upset, another year all Mariah's OEGB wanted to do was play in the shavings on the table).

Knowledge of breeds, varieties, classes, diseases, how you present yourself are all factors also. Check with others in your area to make sure, but I don't think her eye will hurt you. Even in conformation it is not that big of a deduction.

I hope it clears up but I'm sure you love and enjoy her just the way she is!

That's adorable.

The problem with our county fair is that they have a health check before coop-in. That's not bad, but when the show rules state that blind birds arent allowed in the show-ring, it could be a problem. Also, every showman who shows in showmanship (except peewee showmanship) is required to show their bird in the coop-show.

I'll need the check this year's handbook over; thanks for your help!

 

[Audio51]

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This actually doesn't look too bad. It looks like the eye is intact from what I can see and there is not a lot of redness. Is this an improvement from what it was earlier? From your descriptions earlier this looks like it has gotten better. If you have been using the ointment could the "goop" be from that? Sometimes when the eye is irritated it will produce a goop lubricant to protect it.

 

[ronott1]

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Cute!!! You do what you gotta do!

I entered this chick in the cute chick contest. If I win, it was worth it!

First prize is a Brinsea Mini Advance....

 

[Audio51]

Still no change for the better for my banty hen. It pains me to see her like that. It's a huge bummer as well since she is my showmanship bird. I'm continuing treatment, and today I noticed that she is opening her white eye and when I looked closely at it there was a gooey clear liquid in it. Almost like gelatin.

I have no idea what that could mean, but I am hoping maybe it's just a part of the healing process.

I also lost my dearest rooster today.

I rescued him from a friend who said he had been dropped off at his farm. Poor guy was covered in lice and had a very overgrown beak. I believe he was old since he never once bred his hens, though he had a whole coop of Silkie girls all to himself. I don't think I've ever enjoyed a chicken as much as him. He'll be missed.
The one thing's for sure, I definitely don't have a shortage of pictures of this guy. He was such a camera hog.

On a better note, my wry neck Silkie chick is improving! That's something good to focus on.

So sorry about your boy. Sounds like you made each others lives better for the end of his....

 

[ronott1]

This actually doesn't look too bad. It looks like the eye is intact from what I can see and there is not a lot of redness. Is this an improvement from what it was earlier? From your descriptions earlier this looks like it has gotten better. If you have been using the ointment could the "goop" be from that? Sometimes when the eye is irritated it will produce a goop lubricant to protect it.

I think so too. There is a lot of swelling. The eye may be fine after the swelling has reduced. It will likely take another week or so.

Have you tried warm compresses?

 

[Wishing4Wings]

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We had a bantam pullet with a chronically watery and swollen eye. I pulled her eyelid back and noticed some white cheesy substance which I gently squeezed out from under her eyelid and removed with a q-tip. (I think this was pus from an infection. Pus in chickens is firm and will not drain, so has to be removed.) I washed out her eye with a sterile eyewash made for people (Collyrium for Fresh Eyes, a dilute boric acid solution found in any drugstore.) Then she got a dose of Vetericyn Opthalmic gel in the eye. (I got it online because it cost twice as much at the feed store.)
Repeated this procedure twice a day for about 2 weeks before the swelling went away. There was no more pus from the eye after the first 3 days. Her eye was never cloudy, though.

The swelling and clouding makes me think she's got an infection, so try the eyewash (which is mildly antiseptic) and is easy to get. It won't hurt her, and after the first few times, my little chicken didn't mind having her eye washed, so I think it felt good. Do your best to inspect her eye under the lids to see if she's got something stuck under there. The Vetericyn Opthalmic gel is a bit more of an expense, but it got very good reviews when I researched it, so may do the trick for you. I think it helped us.

If she has no other symptoms and only one eye is affected, then I would suspect something caused injury and infection. (Infection will cause eyes to get cloudy. Happened to a pup I had one time.) If she has any other symptoms or nasal discharge, you may need to do some research into possible disease. (Although I could never find anything else that might have caused the problem with our pullet.)

That looks like it doesn't feel too good. Hope you can help her. Good luck.

 

[Audio51]

Quote: That;s what I am missing...a helper!!! What kind of surface do you have them on?

 

[PetRock]

We had a bantam pullet with a chronically watery and swollen eye. I pulled her eyelid back and noticed some white cheesy substance which I gently squeezed out from under her eyelid and removed with a q-tip. (I think this was pus from an infection. Pus in chickens is firm and will not drain, so has to be removed.) I washed out her eye with a sterile eyewash made for people (Collyrium for Fresh Eyes, a dilute boric acid solution found in any drugstore.) Then she got a dose of Vetericyn Opthalmic gel in the eye. (I got it online because it cost twice as much at the feed store.)
Repeated this procedure twice a day for about 2 weeks before the swelling went away. There was no more pus from the eye after the first 3 days. Her eye was never cloudy, though.

The swelling and clouding makes me think she's got an infection, so try the eyewash (which is mildly antiseptic) and is easy to get. It won't hurt her, and after the first few times, my little chicken didn't mind having her eye washed, so I think it felt good. Do your best to inspect her eye under the lids to see if she's got something stuck under there. The Vetericyn Opthalmic gel is a bit more of an expense, but it got very good reviews when I researched it, so may do the trick for you. I think it helped us.

If she has no other symptoms and only one eye is affected, then I would suspect something caused injury and infection. (Infection will cause eyes to get cloudy. Happened to a pup I had one time.) If she has any other symptoms or nasal discharge, you may need to do some research into possible disease. (Although I could never find anything else that might have caused the problem with our pullet.)

That looks like it doesn't feel too good. Hope you can help her. Good luck.

I give

to Vetericyn Opthalmic gel! I've used it on several different chicken eye problems with great success. Once I had a young Bresse chick who had both eyes receeding into her head. She also acted like she was blind. I treated her with Vetericyn Opthalmic gel 2-3 times per day for a couple weeks and her eyes & eye sight recovered. She was behind in development but within a month, I couldn't tell which one she was.