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Hi NN i am in the medical brooder, however in the main brooder nope. If you are wondering if they are pecking at eachothers eyes because they can see better in the brighter light I assure you they dont even mess with eachother like that. the first few days the brown coturnix would grab ahold of the others legs and latch on ("like a pitbull onto a bull" ) i kept saying it as to other bird people lol...but after 3 days of that (three days old i mean) they stopped. Now they just groom eachother and get along perfectly fine. It hink they all learned legs are not food and now they no longer harm eachother.
The light I use on them is a heat lamp specifically reptiles. I was seriously wondering however if they may ahve looked directly into the ligth and caused hte problem however odd that only one eye was effected per bird.
Only 3 of the ten chicks still have an ucler in their eye...all the others have clear eyes.
The three that stll have it, 2 of them their ulcers are fading the chick that I posted pictures of on this postmessages here however, has a very nasty ulcer still in it's eye, it's becoming very oplaque, so this chick will be grown up and just used for meat, where as the other two I have high hopes that they'll be fine. Then another chick that I've decied to still keep in the medical brooder is in there because the shot damaged it's thigh so much it almost has "splay leg" now because of it which si really sad. I thought abou cullnig it but it still gets around suprisingly well and eats and drinks, poos and sleeps just fine. I decied not to cull it because of how well it gets around and does things and let it grow up to 6 weeks old so it has a purpose in life (i will cull it at that point). I would feel like if i culled it now that it would have had no purpose in life other than for it to get a sore in its' eye (which healed) and then get a shot that hurt it so badly it can no longer walk right.
None of the other chicks that never showed signs of this problem have.
everyones doing great. Growing like weeds singing and acting normally (even the ones in the medical tank are just a lil sore in the eyes still).
Soo i stll have no clue what they had but tehy are better and gettin gbetter (cept the one that it's eye was swollen as well as ulcerated, the swelling is going down so maybe the ucler will heal completely once the swelling fully goes away..but just incase if not it willbea cull bird).
NIki
Hi NN i am in the medical brooder, however in the main brooder nope. If you are wondering if they are pecking at eachothers eyes because they can see better in the brighter light I assure you they dont even mess with eachother like that. the first few days the brown coturnix would grab ahold of the others legs and latch on ("like a pitbull onto a bull" ) i kept saying it as to other bird people lol...but after 3 days of that (three days old i mean) they stopped. Now they just groom eachother and get along perfectly fine. It hink they all learned legs are not food and now they no longer harm eachother.
The light I use on them is a heat lamp specifically reptiles. I was seriously wondering however if they may ahve looked directly into the ligth and caused hte problem however odd that only one eye was effected per bird.
Only 3 of the ten chicks still have an ucler in their eye...all the others have clear eyes.
None of the other chicks that never showed signs of this problem have.
Soo i stll have no clue what they had but tehy are better and gettin gbetter (cept the one that it's eye was swollen as well as ulcerated, the swelling is going down so maybe the ucler will heal completely once the swelling fully goes away..but just incase if not it willbea cull bird).
NIki
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