Clops: The Blind Cleft Lid Chick (Updates, Advice, and Discussion Thread)

[jolenesdad]

So yes, I DO follow a blind chicken on FB. ;-)

She posted a link to this article about their journey. It has limited info in it, but some....

https://backyardpoultry.iamcountrys...-how-to-raise-baby-chicks-with-special-needs/

 

[jolenesdad]

Also here is my chick I referenced in the hatch a long thread. You can see how the opening did grow throughout her short life. She got to the point where she could range with the flock but I would not trust them all together, it made her nervous in closed spaces with the adult hens. Last picture is about 8-9 weeks old before a hawk took her. :-/

 

[Building Bridges]

https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/bulging-eye-on-newly-hatched-chick.978786/#post-15238014

 

[FortCluck]

So yes, I DO follow a blind chicken on FB. ;-)

She posted a link to this article about their journey. It has limited info in it, but some....

https://backyardpoultry.iamcountrys...-how-to-raise-baby-chicks-with-special-needs/

And Clops eye that was good is now not opening well the blind eye is still opening. I'm going to clean it with sterile water or eye drops and put eye ointment on her eye.

 

[FortCluck]

Also here is my chick I referenced in the hatch a long thread. You can see how the opening did grow throughout her short life. She got to the point where she could range with the flock but I would not trust them all together, it made her nervous in closed spaces with the adult hens. Last picture is about 8-9 weeks old before a hawk took her. :-/

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I'm sorry a hawk took her

 

[jolenesdad]

And Clops eye that was good is now not opening well the blind eye is still opening. I'm going to clean it with sterile water or eye drops and put eye ointment on her eye.

 

[FortCluck]

I just checked her and it looks like her eyelid is fixing itself It looks like the blind eye will have a closed lid semi permanently. She can open it, but she doesn't open it as much as she opens her one that she can see out of.

The part that kind of look like it was cut by scissors on both sides is closing. So weird. It's interesting though.

I'll get pictures this weekend to show everyone.

 

[FortCluck]

@KDOGG331 here's a chick that hatched... I'm keeping her because she's a gem

 

[ShrekDawg]

@KDOGG331 here's a chick that hatched... I'm keeping her because she's a gem

Awww yay!!!

 

[FortCluck]

Awww yay!!!

She's the most energetic chick out of the bunch. Right now my chicks are being mean to one that just hatched