I regularly check my birds for lice/mites. I’ve never seen anything on them. Recently, while collecting eggs, I saw very small, fast moving bugs on a couple eggs in the nest box. I freaked out, checked my birds—nothing on them. That night I went into the coop with a flashlight and saw a lot of...
No. There is nothing else noticeably wrong. He does shake his head every now and then like the eye is bothering him. And he is staying smaller than the rest of his hatch mates. He was cocking his head and looking at me out of the affected eye, so maybe he has some vision? There hasn’t been any...
I have a 2 week old barnyard mix chick that has a swollen eye. I noticed one of its eyes looked odd a few days ago, but today it is much worse. It’s the eye itself. The membranes around the eye are not swollen and there is no discharge. It looks like what happens when glaucoma goes unchecked and...
I’ve got a Pita Pinta cockerel that I got as a day old from Greenfire. We noticed right away, right out of the box, that he had a swollen eye that he was squinting. We thought maybe he got pecked or it was scratched somehow during shipping. We put Terramycin in it for a few days but didn’t see...