Just a heads up, I took this bird to an avian vet and the vet advised that this looks typical for an older hen and did not think this was due to mites (Cleo, the hen in the photos above is ~6 years old). I also checked with a friend that has kept older birds and they've seen similar scales on...
We have a 6 year old Easter Egger that has some beat up looking scales on her legs that may be lifting. I'm not sure if this is normal scale wear, molting, or a disease/parasite. Does anyone have suggestion on what may be happening here?
Images below. The last image is after we used a soft...
Hi @Gargoyle, how did this progress with Mossy? Anything you learned about helping her cope with the loss of vision?
One of my girls recently developed something that looks almost identical. Out of an abundance of caution, I treated her eye by flushing the eye with saline and with ophthalmic...