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[Audio51]

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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....
Well...I would certainly vote for it! Hope you win.

 

[chiqita]

Yes - my silver laced polish was named oh-so-appropriately "Goofy" by my DH. The other is white with black specks here & there, no name yet.
DH just does not understand my need to have a turken (her name's Pumpkin - a buff) or the need to get showgirls. Silkie turkens? How can I resist? 

No one can resist the power of showgirls!

I'm so sorry, it's hard to lose them; I lost one of my old guys today.   

/hugs to you both!

Dr pwter brown does have an eye antibiotic I got when my girls had an eye and nasel infection.

She won't be blind even if she looses vision in just one eye. She could still qualify.

 

[PetRock]

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

I have 2 large stretched canvases that I used for backdrops for baby/kid clothes that I sold on eBay. One is faux finished with blue paint on white and the other one is just white. They have a coat of water based non-toxic varnish on them which makes it easy to clean off any little presents that the babies leave for me!

 

[Audio51]

All 3 of the last eggs have pipped! The one on camera has developed stage fright and made no progress, They are probably going to wait until I go to bed to hatch, Ustream will only let me record for 2 hours too,,....

 

[PetRock]

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

First prize is a Brinsea Mini Advance....

Must go enter that contest! I'm sure the competition is going to be fierce!

 

[SilkiesForEver]

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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.
It is an improvement; not so much swelling and redness.

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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.

Thanks for the post! It was very helpful! I will definitely look into the eyewash and Opthalmic gel. Thanks!

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Thanks for your posts everyone! I LOVE the support on this thread! Thank you, thank you!

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[ronott1]

Must go enter that contest! I'm sure the competition is going to be fierce!

Yes, go enter the contest!

there are some very cute picture there already.

 

[liz9910]

liz, so sorry about your rooster. Are those darling chicks you posted recently from him? As soon as I get a broody, we will hatch some Seramas. If you're interested, maybe we could do a cockerel trade to mix up the gene pool a bit. (Although I think some of ours are from the same source.

) Hope everybody else is well.

Thank you. He was my favorite. Smaller and better type than Flynn Ryder lol (below)


Flynn Ryder took right over. He is very happy with 5 hens to himself. The chicks were from 5 hens/2 roosters all together so I don't know who fathered them. I meant to separate them into breeding groups but never got that done. But I would be happy to swap eggs so we can get some new blood in the mix.

 

[liz9910]

Thank you everyone for the kind words and hugs I feel much better. I was really sad this morning when he died, all his favorite hens were around him.

 

[WendyJeepchick]

Thank you everyone for your help with my sick rooster, unfortunately he died this morning so sad.

Liz, take him to the UCDavis lab in Turlock. It's behind the fairgrounds. It's totally worth the time and it's FREE. They talk to you about your bird and email you a detailed lab report once the autopsy is complete and the biopsy results are in.