Today Dandelion has looked unwell. This morning when I gave out some sunflower hearts she wasn’t interested and I started to worry. A little later she was sitting with her eyes closed. When she opened her eyes I could see a thin crust around her eyes. It looks like the dreaded mycoplasma again.
Dandelion has a slight crust around her eyes
Dandelion has been sitting with her eyes closed
I decided to put the flock back on tylan again. I put tylan water in both water dishes and made up a dish of mash with tylan water.
Dandelion started laying a week ago and had laid four eggs laying every other day. She laid her fourth one the day before yesterday so I was surprised to see her like this again.
Usually it doesn’t stop Dandelion from eating and drinking so she soon gets a dose of tylan but this time she wasn’t interested. I decided to pick her up and using a dropper I dripped some of the tylan water into her beak. I thought if I could get her to take some it would start to work and then she would start to eat and drink thereby taking more by herself.
A little later when I checked on her again I thought she looked a bit brighter and the crust seemed to have gone from around her eyes.
Dandelion looks a little better
I am so disappointed that Dandelion is back here again. I thought that now we were through the worst of winter and she was laying again that we would be past this.
I have just enough tylan for about a week but it would have gone out of date in August anyway. I will use it up and then order some more from the vet so that I can keep it in stock.
A bit later I checked on Dandelion again and she was in the nest box.
Dandelion is in the nest box
A few minutes later she left the nest box and there was her tiny egg. This is her fifth egg this year and still every other day.
I have got Dandelion through more relapses than any other girl we have ever had. I hope that once again Dandelion will bounce back.
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Oh no – I hope Dandelion is better soon! xx
Me too. She has bounced back so many times so I hope she will do again. xx
She’s obviously made of strong genes and your speed of response has got to be a key factor in her continued recovery.
I am disappointed to be going through this again but she does bounce back. We have thought we would lose her so many times and yet she recovers, thankfully.
Hope Dandelion soon gets better, strange that this has come back now, although
we have had a few frosty mornings.
I thought it was strange that it had come back now but Richard also said that we have had a few frosty mornings and frost always seems to set her back. Today she looks back to normal, thank goodness.