eye discharge and nodding off

[Chickendad1963]

 

[Wyorp Rock]

Looks like the eye is infected. Any other symptoms like sneezing, coughing, wheezing, mucous or lesions inside the beak?
Any bad odors?

Flush the eye with saline, push that pus out of the eye and apply Terramycin ointment into the eye. Flush/push out pus and apply ointment 2-3 times a day.

Depending on the cause, she may need an antibiotic to treat symptoms as well. If the cause is respiratory illness like MG, then Tylosin/Tylan is a good choice. If there's a bad odor, then your likely dealing with Infectious Coryza, so a sulfa antibiotic would be needed. Some use Tylosin/Tylan along with Sulfa antibiotics to treat Coryza.

Work on hydrating her, keep her warm and once she's drinking then offer her wet feed with a bit of chopped egg.

Here's some reading about diseases https://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/publication/ps044

 

[Chickendad1963]

Looks like the eye is infected. Any other symptoms like sneezing, coughing, wheezing, mucous or lesions inside the beak?
Any bad odors?

Flush the eye with saline, push that pus out of the eye and apply Terramycin ointment into the eye. Flush/push out pus and apply ointment 2-3 times a day.

Depending on the cause, she may need an antibiotic to treat symptoms as well. If the cause is respiratory illness like MG, then Tylosin/Tylan is a good choice. If there's a bad odor, then your likely dealing with Infectious Coryza, so a sulfa antibiotic would be needed. Some use Tylosin/Tylan along with Sulfa antibiotics to treat Coryza.

Work on hydrating her, keep her warm and once she's drinking then offer her wet feed with a bit of chopped egg.

Here's some reading about diseases https://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/publication/ps044

Thank you so much!

 

[Shezadandy]

Thank you so much!

Just a quick note about getting pus out of the eye - there are 2 eyelids. The ones closest to the eye go side to side and the ones we're more familiar with open up and down. It's like a set of sliding doors behind a window that opens up and down. If the pus is behind the "sliding door", which slides from the front of the eye to the back of the eye, you'll want to push the pus from front to back to get it out of the sliding door, then extract it from the 2nd set of lids that open up and down.

https://the-chicken-chick.com/chicken-anatomy-nictitating-membrane/

 

[Chickendad1963]

Just a quick note about getting pus out of the eye - there are 2 eyelids. The ones closest to the eye go side to side and the ones we're more familiar with open up and down. It's like a set of sliding doors behind a window that opens up and down. If the pus is behind the "sliding door", which slides from the front of the eye to the back of the eye, you'll want to push the pus from front to back to get it out of the sliding door, then extract it from the 2nd set of lids that open up and down.

https://the-chicken-chick.com/chicken-anatomy-nictitating-membrane/

Thank you for the info - I am trying. I have made another appointment with the only vet in my area that will see chickens for tomorrow afternoon. Hopefully between all of us, we can make Opal a happy, healthy young lady again.

 

[Shezadandy]

Thank you for the info - I am trying. I have made another appointment with the only vet in my area that will see chickens for tomorrow afternoon. Hopefully between all of us, we can make Opal a happy, healthy young lady again.

Excellent, the poor kiddo!