Hey all,
Just yesterday I noticed one of my two young Langshans (they are around 5 months old, and I suspect this one is a cockerel but who knows) was acting low and keeping his right eye closed. His crop was also completely empty. Upon further inspection, the eye looked milky and watery, so I flushed it with a saline solution and applied some ophthalmic ointment, and got him to eat a bit, isolated and with no bullies to chase him away.
Unfortunately today it looks worse. He's staying against walls and keeping his head turned with his good eye, so I don't think he has any visibility out of the bad one. There is what looks like filmy milky gunk over a large section of his eye, and he's able to be handled so I could try to flush it out with more saline, and a q tip, but I'm worried it's rather a scratch on the eye lens, and that attempting to remove it would tear or further injure it.
His crop is empty again, and he's failing to keep up with the other birds, or perch or anything expected of a young hearty bird, and it seems to be bothering him significantly.
I've never had a bird with an eye injury thus far, and I'm at a loss. What should I do?
Just yesterday I noticed one of my two young Langshans (they are around 5 months old, and I suspect this one is a cockerel but who knows) was acting low and keeping his right eye closed. His crop was also completely empty. Upon further inspection, the eye looked milky and watery, so I flushed it with a saline solution and applied some ophthalmic ointment, and got him to eat a bit, isolated and with no bullies to chase him away.
Unfortunately today it looks worse. He's staying against walls and keeping his head turned with his good eye, so I don't think he has any visibility out of the bad one. There is what looks like filmy milky gunk over a large section of his eye, and he's able to be handled so I could try to flush it out with more saline, and a q tip, but I'm worried it's rather a scratch on the eye lens, and that attempting to remove it would tear or further injure it.
His crop is empty again, and he's failing to keep up with the other birds, or perch or anything expected of a young hearty bird, and it seems to be bothering him significantly.
I've never had a bird with an eye injury thus far, and I'm at a loss. What should I do?