Had a chick hatch yesterday in the incubator. Apparently a piece of membrane dried over one of its eyes. Didn't notice it until this morning. The eye is dried and looks like a loss. I tried wetting it but no luck. I have had older chickens go blind in one eye when they were older and were just fine. Do you think this little one would be fine? Or should I get a ziplock bag and a can of starting fluid?
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37chief
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I would think the chick will do just fine with one eye. Since blind at birth (hatching) it will not know the difference. Stan
pete black
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I agree. Know little about chickens, however; all animals use the same tactic: exploit the weakness.
notjustair
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Keep it. After the first week they tend to not bother each others eyes anyway. If you have several keep a red heat light on them - it will keep them from picking at each other. Throw some grass clippings in there. They won't eat them, but it will distract them from "Patches".
State of Jefferson
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This reminds me of a lousey joke about a hunchback and a girl with a wooden eye >;-)
Ben
Ben
pete black
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Well, we are all used to lousy jokes, lets here it.
Larry NEIL
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Would I?, wood eye?
State of Jefferson
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That's the one!
State of Jefferson
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I'd better let someone else tell it. I'm not sure I remember it %100...
Ben
Ben
Neighbor retrieved a chicken that had fallen off the chicken truck as it went by- it was blind in both eyes. Mrs. Neighbor has a pretty good sense of humor, and her last name is Kelly, so she named it Helen Kelly. It lived for years, found its way around (occasionally bumping into stuff).
Tony in Mass.
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I would think she'd be fine. Wasn't there a chicken back in the 40's that didn't even have a head?
todd hamilton
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The version of I know wouldn't be allowed on the forum 
Gambles
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You guys probably better Google the joke. It will come up.
As with the chicken, keep it. I had two dozen baby chicks this spring and they when they were about two months old, they were eating faster than the feeder could keep up. So, I got this great idea to put some feed in a square Tupperware container also. It worked great! Until the next morning I checked on them and the Tupperware container was upside-down and had a bird standing on it. I got the bird off of it and there was another bird underneath the Tupperware container, laying on her side, barely breathing and who knows how long it had been short of oxygen. I put her in a separate pen and she just laid on her side for about two days, then just sat there for another couple of days like she was brain-dead. After that, she took off and grew larger than the other birds. Tamest bird off all of them now, but I really don't know if it's from the lack of oxygen or just all the personalized attention that she got.
As with the chicken, keep it. I had two dozen baby chicks this spring and they when they were about two months old, they were eating faster than the feeder could keep up. So, I got this great idea to put some feed in a square Tupperware container also. It worked great! Until the next morning I checked on them and the Tupperware container was upside-down and had a bird standing on it. I got the bird off of it and there was another bird underneath the Tupperware container, laying on her side, barely breathing and who knows how long it had been short of oxygen. I put her in a separate pen and she just laid on her side for about two days, then just sat there for another couple of days like she was brain-dead. After that, she took off and grew larger than the other birds. Tamest bird off all of them now, but I really don't know if it's from the lack of oxygen or just all the personalized attention that she got.
Anonymous-0
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We had a one-eyed rooster, Called him one-eye Jack - he got along fine.
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