I have a silkie show girl I’ve been struggling with for a while. Here's links to my last posts about her:
https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/help-baby-chick-with-swollen-eyelids.1583664/
https://www.backyardchickens.com/th...o-roof-of-chicks-mouth.1582684/#post-26898761
She’s now 8 weeks old but still only the size of a 4 day old with full reliance on heat like a week old. She went 30 mins without a heat lamp once and almost died. She no longer has a heat lamp because I switched to a brooder plate hoping that wouldn’t worsen her skin condition like the heat lamp seemed to be doing. She’s also no longer on her antibiotics (metronidole).
Since I stopped using bag balm for her skin condition it seems to have slightly improved, but not at all over her eyes. Where was once just swelling is now thick dead skin/scabs and I’m terrified because if she can’t see, she can’t eat, and I feel like I’m keeping her alive with mush feed, scrambled eggs, and Nutri drench.
So far on her eyes I’ve used diluted VetRx, Farnham clear eyes (it’s a horses saline solution), and vetericyn plus anti microbial pet eye gel.
I’ve been trying to rinse her eye with the solution then apply some gel but it doesn’t seem to really make a difference.
Do I have to do it more than once a day? how often should I be doing this if at all? Or is there anything else that could help or be better? I think her eyes would be fine once the scabs fall off around them but that’s a long time to be partially blind.
Also, I’m not sure if this is usual but she screams nonstop like a day old chick. Her three other siblings, which are also eight weeks old have grown out of their baby voices, but she just screams nonstop and it makes the other ones yell in distress but it’s like a baby scream. It’s been nonstop for the past eight weeks. She’s only quiet for a few hours after I give her a handful of scrambled egg. I’m worried she’s starving. I don’t know if she’s been able to eat much of her pellets, since her eyes are closing I’ve just been making sure to get scrambled egg into her. Her aim is really bad too I can’t tell if it’s her eyes of if she’s becoming “special”.
First pic is of her with her sibling for size reference they both hatched the same day, next pics I tried to get of her eye
https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/help-baby-chick-with-swollen-eyelids.1583664/
https://www.backyardchickens.com/th...o-roof-of-chicks-mouth.1582684/#post-26898761
She’s now 8 weeks old but still only the size of a 4 day old with full reliance on heat like a week old. She went 30 mins without a heat lamp once and almost died. She no longer has a heat lamp because I switched to a brooder plate hoping that wouldn’t worsen her skin condition like the heat lamp seemed to be doing. She’s also no longer on her antibiotics (metronidole).
Since I stopped using bag balm for her skin condition it seems to have slightly improved, but not at all over her eyes. Where was once just swelling is now thick dead skin/scabs and I’m terrified because if she can’t see, she can’t eat, and I feel like I’m keeping her alive with mush feed, scrambled eggs, and Nutri drench.
So far on her eyes I’ve used diluted VetRx, Farnham clear eyes (it’s a horses saline solution), and vetericyn plus anti microbial pet eye gel.
I’ve been trying to rinse her eye with the solution then apply some gel but it doesn’t seem to really make a difference.
Do I have to do it more than once a day? how often should I be doing this if at all? Or is there anything else that could help or be better? I think her eyes would be fine once the scabs fall off around them but that’s a long time to be partially blind.
Also, I’m not sure if this is usual but she screams nonstop like a day old chick. Her three other siblings, which are also eight weeks old have grown out of their baby voices, but she just screams nonstop and it makes the other ones yell in distress but it’s like a baby scream. It’s been nonstop for the past eight weeks. She’s only quiet for a few hours after I give her a handful of scrambled egg. I’m worried she’s starving. I don’t know if she’s been able to eat much of her pellets, since her eyes are closing I’ve just been making sure to get scrambled egg into her. Her aim is really bad too I can’t tell if it’s her eyes of if she’s becoming “special”.
First pic is of her with her sibling for size reference they both hatched the same day, next pics I tried to get of her eye
