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[Chaos18]

Armstrong county here

Welcome from Beaver County here.

 

[AnneInTheBurbs]

Okay everybody, sick chicken question. One of my Aunts newer chickens is not doing well. She said it has its eyes closed most of the time and is not eating or drinking. She has been dropper feeding it water, and I suggested some sugar in the water to maybe pep it up a little bit. She said it will stand and walk a few steps, but I don't think it can see where it is going obviously. She said it is hanging it's next kind of funny on either side also, occasionally. Any thoughts? She has been putting some bacitracin/ neosporin around its eyes to in case it's an infection of some sort.

Bump! Any ideas? Anyone?

So far so good in the bunny nest. I just took it out to check on the cottontail kit and it started jumping around all excited like as soon as I uncovered them 'Peter' is certainly looking better than when I put him in the nest, I'm thinking Clover nursed her kits and included the little cottontail as one of her own!

That's awesome! I hope your bunny continues to thrive. Excellent thinking!

hoping she avoids that fermented stuff for about 18 years

Lol, I see what you did there.

Armstrong county here

Welcome to the Pennsylvania peeps!

 

[winc564]

Anne - I don't know much about these things, but what about a dose of vitamins? I was just reading about wry neck and then saw that this chicken sometimes holds its neck funny. It appears that wry neck can come and go in the beginning. (Just a thought, no idea if this is helpful at all.)

 

[chippysmom327]

Thought you guys would appreciate this

I didn't do anything to make it do that, it just did.

 

[Debby27]

Thought you guys would appreciate this

I didn't do anything to make it do that, it just did.

someone loves you! what a pretty little heart!

 

[Blarneyeggs]

Vacation?... Very nice.

Do you have any for sale?

Yes. I sell weathers for $150, Does for $300 and bucklings for $250. They are all disbudded, CDT vaccinated and able to be double registered AGS as well as ADGA. My herd is CL and CAE clean and tested yearly. I have shelters for sale as well, Polydomes 60" diameter, $220,

works well for the Nigerian dwarfs.

 

[Blarneyeggs]

Omg!!! Love the white faced tri color with the socks!!! Please tell me that's a doeling & you want to sell her.

Very flashy, right? Mit's a buckling, we may be retaining if DH gets some more fencing up for me.

got a new chicken over the weekend it is learning to roost

What a cutie pie! Her body languages suggests to me that you may have met your match!

 

[OneMountainAcres]

Bump! Any ideas? Anyone?
That's awesome! I hope your bunny continues to thrive. Excellent thinking!
Lol, I see what you did there.
Welcome to the Pennsylvania peeps!

Anne - I don't know much about these things, but what about a dose of vitamins? I was just reading about wry neck and then saw that this chicken sometimes holds its neck funny. It appears that wry neck can come and go in the beginning. (Just a thought, no idea if this is helpful at all.)

I had a turkey poult that had wry neck. Everything I looked up said about vitamin E and selenium. So I bought selenium tablets and vitamin E drops at the pharmacy. For his little butt, I used half a selenium tablet and 10 drops of the vitamin E and mixed them with save a chick electrolytes. I gave that to him twice a day with a dropper and he recovered very quickly.

 

[emorems0]

So I put the hens in the chicken tractor this morning. They are loving being out in the sun on the grass. It's the first sun they've seen in weeks with all this rain... and grass instead of mud. They are very happy although I'm not sure they can get through the door on the kitty litter box I set up as a best box for them. They were checking it out but didn't go in. It's roomy in there but the door is smallish, they sort of need to step up and duck down at the same time.

Romeo is NOT happy at all. He's pacing along the fence making this sound I never heard before... like a mix between a purr and a growl.

Peter is still alive, wasn't quite as peppy this morning, but I was able to count the kits and I thought I counted 7 plus Peter which is a lot I think. Hopefully Clover can keep up with feeding them all. From what I've been reading wild cotton tails start eating food and going out on their own as early as two weeks, so once his eyes open I'm going to start putting grasses in there to take some of the load off of Clover (assuming there aren't other internal injuries that just haven't presented yet).

 

[stake]

GM all:

Well, my alpha girl was trying to crow this morning,,,,,second time I've had a hen do this....she was making the 'come for food' sounds and every time the other girls came over, she'd peck them on the head....(they now ignore her)....boy, its tough not having an adult roo....my two OE youngin's are at twelve weeks and my only CCL boy is only 4weeks.....

emore:

my adult girls hated being penned...my youngin's seem much more ready to stay in the pen with the coop near by...of course the older girls have been pretty tough on them...