NY chicken lover!!!!

[marquisella]

No sneezing coughing or anything like that, just the bubbles and he was also shaking his head from time to time, which leaves me to believe there is something irritating his eye. I'm going to bring him in today and try to get him cleaned up and get the eye washed out with some water and possibly some sort of solution.

Larengeal trachyitis is one of the chicken diseases that can present with foamy eyes. I would start him on antibiotics just in case, it won't hurt.

 

[stonykill]

for anyone in Columbia County or close by, my band The Bob Tweek Band will be rockin out at The Niverville Pub tonight. Show starts at 8 with our good friend Hutch playing an acoustic set. We go on at 9:30. Then tomorrow at the same venue we will be part of a day long music fest to benefit special olympics. 1pm to 6 on sunday.

 

[Lynzi777]

Ok, just got done giving my silkie a bath. Wanted to wash out his face/eye see if that helps any. But I think it's more than just some "debris" in his eye that causing an irritation. His whole left eye looks swollen and larger than the right. Took some pictures...

Normal Right Eye



Infected Left Eye


If you think I should treat it something, can you please let me know what to treat it with?!? I'm still new to chickens. I just hope it's something that can be treated. I don't want to have to lose a chicken yet.

 

[vmdanielsen]

Ok, just got done giving my silkie a bath. Wanted to wash out his face/eye see if that helps any. But I think it's more than just some "debris" in his eye that causing an irritation. His whole left eye looks swollen and larger than the right. Took some pictures...

Normal Right Eye



Infected Left Eye


If you think I should treat it something, can you please let me know what to treat it with?!? I'm still new to chickens. I just hope it's something that can be treated. I don't want to have to lose a chicken yet.

Well, it definitly looks like something. Other than that I am no help. If you have a small cage, isolate him. use biohazard precautions.(wash hands,change clothing etc)(Feed the rest of your flock first, then him, wash clothing). Since it is only one side, I lean toward noncontagious.....something. However, if he were my bird, I would treat as though it were contagious, just to err on the side of caution. If he starts wheezing or acting sick, I would dispatch. I would also start every body on antibiotics.....found at any farm store.
Keep us posted. You know with animals....it is ALWAYS something.


I hatched 2 more buckeyes yesterday. Set 18,......same fertility issue. pullet does not like rooster!! She bullies him! He is a gentleman...keeps trying to woo her. Hopefully she will like the new one I ordered. Up to 36 chickens! We are all nuts!!! Good thing I didn't say I have 36 cats!!( then add, half will go to freezer camp!)

 

[java girl 2]

Javagirl: One of the little Java roos I promised you managed to get out of the run last night (no idea how) and is running around peeping. Haven't managed to catch him yet, but I hope I can before Ms. Fox eats him. Only way I see he could have gotten out is flying up pretty high and squeezing out of the welded wire. When hubby is up we'll try and catch his little tush, but he keeps running in the woods and I am not dressed for ticks yet.

yeah, the javas are VERY GOOD flyers.

my 2 year old 8-13lbs hens can fly up to 5-6 feet.

I hope you can catch him!!!

 

[Lynzi777]

Just went up to check on my silkie, good news is, no foam since I washed out his eye this morning. I'm heading to TS tonight though, hopefully they'll have some type of antibiotic for it that I can give him and the others as a precaution.

 

[featherz]

yeah, the javas are VERY GOOD flyers.

my 2 year old 8-13lbs hens can fly up to 5-6 feet.

I hope you can catch him!!!

There is a high up open area he could have gotten out of.. We did get him tho, we allowed everyone out this evening for supervised ranging and he joined the crowd then. He did NOT get eaten.

Oh, also, we switched out fence chargers for a low impedance one on that coop since it's pretty large with some hard to access areas - we need something to work through weeds if possible. Now getting 14K volts! Yowsa!

 

[java girl 2]

Quote: whoo, where is a brow wiping smiley when you need one!!

I am glad you got him!!!

and thats a lot of volts!!!! be careful!!

 

[Cass]

I looked around my place for somewhere for the Sumatras to roost safely. There aren't as many trees as I thought, so I figured I would make a box, mount it on a tree stump that was cut intentionally to be HIGH (like 5 feet off the ground). So I am thinking a wood box, turned on it's side and presto, instant cover.

Now we all know that men's brains and women's brains don't work exactly alike. What I got was a pitched shingled roofed, wood sided (and I mean SIDING like the house) "box" with a roost on the front and a removeable floor for cleaning. WOOHOO...it's wonderful. Now to convince the birds that it is ok to live in there. LOL

 

[Henicillin]

I only got five eggs today (or found five - let's put it like that). Now, I do have some breeds that aren't exactly the greatest layers, like the Brahmas and Faverolles, but, really, only five? Sheesh. The chooks are slacking, on strike, hiding them somewhere, or I have the most ambitious egg-eaters on Earth.

Although I have found eggs here and there with peck marks, I haven't seen any direct evidence of egg-eating since I saw the lot of them chowing down on an egg in the run, and even then I don't think they could pull it off on such a large scale without leaving a mess occasionally. I've even left eggs in the nest boxes all day on an experimental basis, and all of them are accounted for in the evening. The most likely explanation is that they're squeezing themselves into some hidey-hole behind the stuff stored in the non-roost half of the coop. I'll have to move some stuff around to see.

Gladys is cutting the apron strings and is now pretty much ignoring the Peeps. When they aren't following her around plaintively peeping at her, they spend their time together perching on the branches and ladders in the run and looking sort of pitiful. One of them was in a nest box this evening - she must have hopped up there at dusk and discovered too late that it isn't an "official" roost. I took her out and held her and patted her for a while, which she seemed to appreciate, and then put her with Gladys. Sorry, kids - Mama figures she has done her job and it's time to boot you from the nest.