- Dec 28, 2009
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Last year, I had one of my Silkies go completely blind from what looked like a combination of glaucoma/cataracts. We had her put to sleep as the condition looked extremely painful.
This year, I am looking at one of my one year old Silkies and her eye is swollen and starting to get a blue haze. Of course this is my daughter's very favorite bird. No periorbital swelling (around the eye), just the eyeball itself. No respiratory disease, no reduction in egg laying or anything else indicating a pathogen at play here.
I just read that 24 hour light will cause glaucoma in chickens...first I have ever heard of such. I use a brooder lamp for all my babies, but now I'm thinking this is about to be changed immediately. Silkies already have large eyes as it is, so I am wondering if anyone else out there who raises them has seen this. It may also be genetic, I realize. These 2 hens could have been related.
This year, I am looking at one of my one year old Silkies and her eye is swollen and starting to get a blue haze. Of course this is my daughter's very favorite bird. No periorbital swelling (around the eye), just the eyeball itself. No respiratory disease, no reduction in egg laying or anything else indicating a pathogen at play here.
I just read that 24 hour light will cause glaucoma in chickens...first I have ever heard of such. I use a brooder lamp for all my babies, but now I'm thinking this is about to be changed immediately. Silkies already have large eyes as it is, so I am wondering if anyone else out there who raises them has seen this. It may also be genetic, I realize. These 2 hens could have been related.