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  1. K

    My hen is blind

    Our 6 month old hen has been acting strange the past few months; walking into fences, walking into other chickens and avoiding the flock completely. We had a feeling she was blind or something wrong neurologically. On closer inspection we’ve found her eyes are indeed cloudy which is...
  2. H

    Help! Possible Ocular Mareks Disease?!

    Please help me to determine what is wrong with my poor Poppy girl, she has always been slower and shy but today she hopped up for a snuggle. I noticed her eye is gray and has white on the inside. Could this be mareks or possibly just blindness from something? I attached photos of both eyes for...
  3. cassandrapettersson

    Blind chicken wont open eye anymore-

    Hi! Pictures will come soon, or tomorrow, i really don't know. To explain it immediately I can't see anything wrong with her but I should probably start with the situation. She's always been blind in one eye, I have no idea why it kind of just happened and she's been like that for probably her...
  4. Hannahhubers

    When should I put my hen out of her misery?

    So I made a recent post about how a snake tried to pull my hens head through the chain link fence in my coop. She was alive and I put her in my barn so she’d be in a more comfortable situation. She is eating and drinking now but she still won’t stand up or move. She’s actually acting like she...
  5. D

    need advice - neighborhood rooster found with head injury/exposed skull

    Hi all, about a week ago i noticed one of the neighborhood roosters in my yard with what appeared to be black gunk all over his head (my first thought was someone did something cruel and dumped something hot on him but honestly idk). he looked wretched, but at the time i was not intending to...
  6. H

    Tips on how to care for a one-eyed chicken

    So this morning, my smallest chicken survived a hawk attack. She's 3 years old and I'm pretty sure she's now blind in her right eye, which I think is the eye that she used to see things up close. After being frozen for a few minutes, she started walking around. I threw her favorite food in...
  7. Sunflower24

    Rooster with bulging eye, loss of vision

    Hello, I have a Blue Americauna rooster who is 10 months old. A couple of weeks ago, we noticed that he had gone blind from one eye. No sign of bleeding or injury. Just a discolored, swollen eye. However, as time has passed, the eye is bulging more and more. Today, it’s bulging a lot more...
  8. KKelli

    Possibly blind , constant water drinking , just pooping water

    I have a hen who is almost four. She has been a little slow the last month but seemed to be in good health. I noticed her going off by herself more but nothing too abnormal. Last night when I closed up the coop she was on one side alone and almost seemed blind.she ran into my legs and out the...
  9. A

    Could this be Ocular Mereks? What to do

    I wasn’t sure how to post a picture but the link below goes to a picture of the hens eye. I’ve never seen an eye look like this and her other eye looks completely normal. She is definitely blind or partially blind in the affected eye. I’m not sure if it’s an injury or if she is sick and could...
  10. Olivia The Semi-Blind Chicken

    Olivia The Semi-Blind Chicken

    Olivia was one of our original 8 chickens in 2016. She was a gentle Plymouth Barred Rock in a coop and large run with 4 other Plymouth Barred Rocks, 3 Buff Orpingtons and two “Easter Eggers.” She lived peacefully among the other chickens. However, at about 6 months it became clear that Olivia...
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  11. The chicken nurd

    Need some advice on an older chicken

    This morning I noticed my oldest hen Brownie who is 10 years old has a cataract in one eye and maybe something forming in her other eye otherwise she seems happy and healthy and neither eye seems infected but she is definitely not keeping up with the younger birds in my flock the way she used to...
  12. J

    Is there a way to test a chicken's vision?

    I have 3 silkie chickens that were born in April, when one of them was a few weeks old I noticed his eye was bigger than the other. Nothing came of it though and no symptoms of any possible disease showed and he has grown to be a happy healthy chicken. He's a very nice rooster as far as...
  13. F

    Sudden blindness and head tilting/twitching in old chook

    Today I fed my chooks and everyone was fine, running around pecking at their food as they always do, not long ago got a call saying my old bantam hens head was twitching and she couldn’t walk properly and that she was just sitting on the edge of the water container, go out to check her myself...
  14. A

    Chickens eye is cloudy

    This girl ended up from my neighborhood into my property , she has cloudy eyes and can partially see . I read online she might have an infection but not so clear on how to treat it or at least stop it if that's the case. I cleaned her eyes with a small syringe ( no needle ofcourse) and just...
  15. Big Cluck

    Mereks Treatment

    Hi all! Bobbie our BCM hen contracted Mereks as a pullet. She has always had trouble eating, seeing, walking and grooming as a result. We were told that she and the chicks we got her with were vaccinated but all of them contracted Mereks and all but she and one other passed. She’s about 5 years...
  16. Tanya22

    Blind Eye is 'sinking' inside.

    My rescued broiler baby Snowy is blind from one eye. I have been observing for awhile now that her eye seems to be going inside. I've no idea what to do or if it's natural for a blind eye to do this. Any suggestions or people who have gone through the same situation, please do share.
  17. W

    Hen with poor vision

    I have a very sweet Golden Wyandotte hen that seems to have poor vision. She is smaller than the rest and seems to have no depth perception when trying to eat. She doesn't act sickly and is always lovey, but she's having trouble finding her way back to the coop at night. When she does, she...
  18. Thunder344

    How to Take Care of a Blind Chicken ?

    Three days ago I noticed that my oldest hen named Brownie wouldn't/couldn't get out of the coop. She wouldn't use her legs. I thought she was dying (she just turned 9) and made her as comfortable as possible. Yesterday (day 3, stupid me) I checked her feet and it looks like bumblefoot. I need...
  19. ThickenTheChicken

    Blind? Chicken

    I currently have 4 hens. All of which are around 2 years old. I lost hen #5 due to being egg bound. I mistook her spending time in the laying box as her brooding. Another hen that was actually brooding got sick or got pecked by the eggbound one. Either way, I have a hen that can’t see out of one...
  20. Caitthechickenfriend

    Hen suddenly unable to walk, blind, toes curled

    My 7 year old mixed breed hen who has been amazingly healthy and laying suddenly yesterday morning was unable to stand and curled toes. Her legs do not appear to have injuries and there is nothing swollen. She also cannot see. Comb is good color and she will take food if I put it into her beak...
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