NY chicken lover!!!!

[Pyxis]

Yikes! The redtail hawk ate my golden comets eyes first when it killed her. I know you mean well, but remember asprin is a blood thinner. 
Good luck :-(

OUCH!!! I agree, maybe a hawk? Not sure what you could do other than rinse it out and maybe put an antibiotic on it? Hope she heals. 

It could have been a hawk. I haven't seen one around but whatever it was seemed to only go for littler birds and I found no trace of her sibling, so it could be that it carried her sibling off and somehow didn't quite get this one. Luckily there was no bleeding by the time I found her so she's on aspirin for the pain. I'll keep in mind that it's a blood thinner though and take it away from her if she starts bleeding again. I guess I'm gonna toss all the smaller birds into the hoop coop tonight so that there's no access to them if it is a hawk going after them. The big birds will have to take their chances, but I'm not as worried about them because of the roosters. I also have a pair of ravens I let stay around because they usually keep the hawks away. I hope nothing happened to them.

 

[AQHAchick22]

Coops are all cleaned! Everyone's happy. Now if only they'd show me some appreciation by laying some eggs!


I've been getting a phone call a day from some telemarketer trying to save me money on my electric bill. We just got a new phone number yet again because we switched phone companies and I cannot stand all the stupid calls. If our cell phones worked here then I wouldn't even have a home phone but in order to make/receive a phone call I have to go out on my porch. What kills me is the minute these people get on the phone with you they're like "Do you have an electric bill? Can you give me the account number?" I'm sorry, you haven't given me your name, the company you work for, but yes, let me give you my electric bill account number! Ugh! Such idiots!

Could your hens be about to molt?

Also I know what you mean with the telemarketers they drive me nuts. I told one right off the bat before she could even start her speech that I wasn't interested in what she was selling and she actually laughed at me. I just like playing games with them. Next time ask them for their number so you can call them back.

 

[Pyxis]

Yikes...my thought would be hawk or maybe another bird. Is there anywhere outside she could have caught it on? Like chicken wire or something and then the hens picked at it. It just seems strange that a hawk would just get the eye...did you bandage it up a bit as well?

I couldn't think of a way to bandage it without driving her crazy. I didn't want to stress her out by wrapping something around her head.

 

[miquwid]

It looks so nice outside. I have to clean the coop and work on getting the rest of my garden ready for winter, but my daughter decided that she would bring home a cold to share. The kids had it last week, the hubby got it sunday as he headed out for the week and I got it yesterday. I thought that I was out of the woods, but it snuck up on me. Got to love head colds. I'm glad that this week is going to be a great week so that I have more time to get out and get some things done. I really need to get the garden ready to be tilled up again. I'm going bigger for next year and want to get some compost worked in and covered before it starts to snow, but before I do any of it I have to get it cleared out and right now I just want to slather up with some vicks and go to bed.

I hope you feel better soon. I hear ya I'm building a bigger garden as well. My chickens are taking third sweet time destroying it!

Updated pics from my chicks that hatched last month. The coloring has changed a lot. Some how I have a barred or I guess partridge. These are from reds and white leghorn maybe my light Sussex passed some barring on or something? is one on left a blue or lav? I always call them grey lol.

Jose your chicks are cute my son wants blue eggs, you should have seen his face when he saw one in person. I was like no more babies lol.

Well, this is what greeted me today when I went out to do bird chores. I'm putting it under a spoiler because it's very not nice, and anyone squeamish should probably stay away.

Spoiler

My camera refused to take a focussed picture, but you get the idea. Does anyone know what could have done it? Maybe another bird? I checked them all and none of them had blood on them. I am also missing her half sibling, so could it have been a predator? Right now she's in a cage inside the mostly completed hoop coop with her remaining three siblings and the guineas in the hoop coop to keep her company. I put neosporin all over the wound and put aspirin in her water. She's still eating and drinking. Anyone else know what I could do for her? Poor little thing. As you could probably tell from the pictures, her eye is gone and part of her face around the eye area was torn up.

Maybe put her in complete isolation, I'm so sorry. I have no clue what could have causes that.

 

[miquwid]

Lynzi it seems my girls are on an egg strike ugh. My roo was finishing his molt but my Barred rock thought it would be fun to pick on him and pull out a feathers or two in front of me. I was fuming lol but she stopped. I haven't tried the good but I may now.

 

[Lynzi777]

Could your hens be about to molt?

Also I know what you mean with the telemarketers they drive me nuts. I told one right off the bat before she could even start her speech that I wasn't interested in what she was selling and she actually laughed at me. I just like playing games with them. Next time ask them for their number so you can call them back.

LOL I've already played the Jerry Seinfeld "I'm busy right now but I'll tell ya what, why don't you give me your number and I'll call you back"

My BR went thru a molt over the summer and wasn't laying that much. She is the only laying right now. Not sure what's going on with my lavender orp, doesn't look like she's going thru a molt. The splash roo is definitely molting but I'm not expecting eggs from him anyway.

I haven't seen a single feather from the buff orp so I don't think she is but a couple of weeks ago around the 1st week of Sept she tried going broody on me again and I threw her out of the nestbox. She never went back in after that. So I would have thought she would be back to laying by now. She only layed for maybe a month or two prior to that and that's when I put them all back on grower mash to get them to lay.

 

[armorfirelady]

Yikes...my thought would be hawk or maybe another bird. Is there anywhere outside she could have caught it on? Like chicken wire or something and then the hens picked at it. It just seems strange that a hawk would just get the eye...did you bandage it up a bit as well?

I couldn't think of a way to bandage it without driving her crazy. I didn't want to stress her out by wrapping something around her head.

Corn starch is a natural blood stopper/ clotted like a syptic pencil. I would give her some fresh chopped up basil & oregano in some scrambled eggs. Both herbs are natural antibiotics. Nustock on the wound. Not where eye was tho. And maybe a small piece of gauze cut into a small circle but big enough it would stick to Nustock surround it. And maybe if you got some vet wrap and cut it in long thin strips you could wrap from from of head above nostrils and back over gauze area to hold graze on. Without blocking her other eye, nostrils or beak. Even if it was just at night when she's roosted just to keep bugs, flies and other debris out. I would def isolate her tho till she starts to heal.

 

[jjquick12]

We are in Cohoes. Anyone else in the (518) area code? My wife and I are just starting out and would love to talk coop design and placement. If possible, we would really like to take a tour of local coops already established. Please email and we will set something up.

 

[LuvMyChicks1491]

Could your hens be about to molt?

Also I know what you mean with the telemarketers they drive me nuts. I told one right off the bat before she could even start her speech that I wasn't interested in what she was selling and she actually laughed at me. I just like playing games with them. Next time ask them for their number so you can call them back.

Last time the energy people called I told the guy that if he could guarantee one years salary in writing notarized that I would save money that I would switch. he laughed and said that he couldn't do it. I told him not to call again. it was a month before they started to call again.

 

[Pyxis]

Corn starch is a natural blood stopper/ clotted like a syptic pencil. I would give her some fresh chopped up basil & oregano in some scrambled eggs. Both herbs are natural antibiotics. Nustock on the wound. Not where eye was tho. And maybe a small piece of gauze cut into a small circle but big enough it would stick to Nustock surround it. And maybe if you got some vet wrap and cut it in long thin strips you could wrap from from of head above nostrils and back over gauze area to hold graze on. Without blocking her other eye, nostrils or beak. Even if it was just at night when she's roosted just to keep bugs, flies and other debris out. I would def isolate her tho till she starts to heal.

Thanks! She is isolated, maybe I did a bad job of describing it before. She's in a dog crate, and I put the dog crate inside the hoop coop that I'm mostly finished with so that nothing could get to her. Then I put her siblings in the hoop coop to keep her company, but they can't get to her through the dog crate. Do you have a picture of the kind of wrapping you're talking about? I'm really bad at picturing things like this. I just don't want to put her off eating and drinking by putting things around her head because that's the last think she needs, poor girl.