Greetings Poetastic,
It seems your rooster has been pecked many times on, and about his face and comb. Poor guy, he's been getting it from the other roosters, pretty bad.
It is both a peck wound, and is most likely infected. Bacteria are introduced into the soft tissue of the eye when it is...
Greetings Poetastic,
You are right to worry about infection. The same thing happened to one of my roosters. The eye did get infected, then, a secondary infection set into his respiratory system. I hear about eyes healing on their own, all the time on BYC. And I suppose anything can heal, but I...