I know that I have used visine on myself and it irritated my eyes worse. It may be more beneficial to try just an eye wash or something. It is the preservatives in the eye drops that continue to irritate the eyes. I use optive which is very refreshing but it is expensive. I pay about 6-10 dollars a small bottle but it goes a long way. I think the regular eye wash is less expensive though. Good luck with her eye. Poor girl.
A big hearty welcome to all of our new folks!
Welcome to Okies thread!Hi, I am Hannah and new to raising chickens. I moved to Oklahoma 3 years ago and LOVE THIS PLACE, I live right outside of Tulsa. My guy bought me a few chickens at a local flea market late last summer, we go to the market almost weekly, and ended up with a few more. I lost 2 in one night to a racoon, and another the next night. It broke my heart!!!! My guy set live traps out and for the next week we caught a coon a night, he took them off when he left for work, I never asked and he never told me what happened to them. A few weeks later he came home with a surprise, 8 Bantam Cochins, 3 blue-3-black-an 2 white!!!!! I was IN LOVE!!!!!!! They were stunning. I now had a white rooster and a blue rooster the rest were all girls. I had a two story rabbit hutch for the first chickens, but we needed something bigger so. . . We purchased a small coop from Atwoods and it served us well threw the winter. I had The blu an blk in the new coop an the wht pair with one small blu hen in the hutch. I was happy, I fed them, kept them with fresh water, and LOVED THEM bunches!!! A week into them being HOME, I realized my wht hen was blind or dang near to it. I had to go out several times a day to splash her water pan and shake her feed so she could eat. Now she does really well and has some sight back. She is my best girl-friend, if i am outside she is with me or trying to find me.Early this spring we built them a larger coop, Thinking I was going to be the best chicken mamma ever, and was really trying. I moved the big group to the new coop, and the 3 amigos got the Atwood coop. Everything was perfect till. . . . .we picked up another random choice 6 a the flea market. An added them to the large coop. Apparently someone was sick, I blame my lil rosecomb. She had always sounded diff, we (not knowing a thing about chickens) thought it might be the way that breed of chicken sounded. I love my birds I really do. I just had no clue. . . . Well, I noticed Big Daddy Cain - blu roo- was congested, so got on line and started looking for help, I found byc!!!! Has been a real EYE OPENER!!! Thank goodness. I have now treated all of my flock with meds, thru out all of this I have treated for lice an mites. The last 6, brought in. . . .Grrrrr. I now know to not add birds to my flock unless they have been kept apart for a month or more, if I ever get another grown bird. I have wormed them all also, just for good measure. I went from proud momma to so ashamed of my self, for not learning more before I got them. I hope to be on the right track and I am trying to learn as much as I can. I can not keep my girls from setting, I have hatched 12 chicks so far, I believe to be all cochin except one. As soon as they were dry I removed them from the coop and have been raising the in a welping box in the garage. That is my chicken tail thus far. . . . . And I am in need of Good Chicken PEEPS!!! lol I have learned that the feed store is not always the best place for info. Ugh. . . . . So once again HI, an my name is Hannah.
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Welcome to Okies thread!
Hope she gets to feeling better. Every friend that has had "female" probs and got a hysterectomy have all said they felt sooooo much better afterwards, and how they couldn't believe how they had just "got used to" living in pain before.
If you have extra, I love boiled okra and fried okra, my sister loves it pickled! Bring some to NEOCS with you and I'll by some, I' take a gallon bag or two of the 2-4 inch pods if you have them. Have you tried chopping them up and boiling them for the chickens, I know my goats and horses liked okra raw but I don't remember a chicken ever eating it raw, but have seen them eat it cooked, it may be the texture of it raw they don't like! Lynn
