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Thanks for the good wishes. At least she's not getting any worse, and maybe (just maybe) a tad better today after 24 hours of terramycin.

Thanks to y'all who've taken the time to help out. I got out the camera tonight, and I think I should be posting to the "how the heck do you take a decent picture of a chicken?" forum instead! Here's a very blurry photo of Baby Madge showing both eyes: And here's a blurry photo of the "bad"...

I did read that whole thread (later on). I can't quite figure out the process, and am hesitant to poke anything in her mouth -- she's a baby bantam (7 weeks), and so pretty little. My mom told me about not putting neosporin in the eye after I'd already done it. Somebody else said they'd...

Other than the eye she seems ok. no cough or runny nose, but she's content to quietly perch on my finger (her balance is fine). She is opening the eye now --it's still really swollen and pink. I don't have the camera handy but it looks kind of like this...

I hope this isn't going to hurt her -- I tried flushing her eye with saline (the kind for people) and putting on some neomycin. That's all I can find in the house tonight. Baby Madge is sleeping in the laundry room, making baby chick whistling sounds. She ate and drank. I guess we'll see...

Baby Madge is a 6.5 weeks old Bantam Barred Rock. We noticed she kept one eye shut a couple of days ago, and today I looked closely at her. One eye is swollen pink underneath, and I see cloudy yellow stuff when I pull the eyelids apart. Nothing is oozing out. She seems listless as well. The...