uisceros
Songster
Hi everyone,
I have a weird one - I have a teeny tiny kikiriki hen who is acting very oddly. It seems like she has a head injury, but I have no idea how.
She presented a little while ago with one squinty eye. I assumed she got something in it, or was being bullied, and made sure she ate and put some terramycin in her eye. She is in a flock of seramas (plus two d'uccles and two modern game bantams), so they're all a little bit bigger, but nothing major. She was definitely on the low end of the pecking order. I never saw blood though. I started bringing her in at night just to make sure she was okay, but decided that was probably not fostering friendships so I've been leaving her with the others at night.
The other day I noticed both eyes were squinty, and she was incredibly thin. I immediately took her inside assuming she was being bullied and not eating. Except I noticed she couldn't open her mouth very wide. She's been shaking her head a lot, and seems slightly unbalanced. She has trouble eating since her mouth doesn't open wide. I've been tube feeding her with the Kaytee exact baby bird for the past few days (twice a day), and leaving her with plenty of fine chick food and water.
I figure this is either an ear issue or she has some sort of head trauma. Her set up is as follows: ~72 square foot enclosed run/coop, currently holds 19 tiny bantams (temporarily until my other coop is built). Most are hens, but there's two roosters (one d'uccle and one serama), and one cockerel. She is the only kikiriki (her sister died of a eye tumor awhile back), but none of the other birds are much bigger.
They eat Nutrena all flock starter crumbles and free choice oyster shells/grit.
Any weird diseases I'm missing that would cause this? If it is head trauma or an ear issue, any ideas of what to do?
I do have a vet, but honestly in my experience they haven't helped much since they're not farm vets.
I have a weird one - I have a teeny tiny kikiriki hen who is acting very oddly. It seems like she has a head injury, but I have no idea how.
She presented a little while ago with one squinty eye. I assumed she got something in it, or was being bullied, and made sure she ate and put some terramycin in her eye. She is in a flock of seramas (plus two d'uccles and two modern game bantams), so they're all a little bit bigger, but nothing major. She was definitely on the low end of the pecking order. I never saw blood though. I started bringing her in at night just to make sure she was okay, but decided that was probably not fostering friendships so I've been leaving her with the others at night.
The other day I noticed both eyes were squinty, and she was incredibly thin. I immediately took her inside assuming she was being bullied and not eating. Except I noticed she couldn't open her mouth very wide. She's been shaking her head a lot, and seems slightly unbalanced. She has trouble eating since her mouth doesn't open wide. I've been tube feeding her with the Kaytee exact baby bird for the past few days (twice a day), and leaving her with plenty of fine chick food and water.
I figure this is either an ear issue or she has some sort of head trauma. Her set up is as follows: ~72 square foot enclosed run/coop, currently holds 19 tiny bantams (temporarily until my other coop is built). Most are hens, but there's two roosters (one d'uccle and one serama), and one cockerel. She is the only kikiriki (her sister died of a eye tumor awhile back), but none of the other birds are much bigger.
They eat Nutrena all flock starter crumbles and free choice oyster shells/grit.
Any weird diseases I'm missing that would cause this? If it is head trauma or an ear issue, any ideas of what to do?
I do have a vet, but honestly in my experience they haven't helped much since they're not farm vets.
