Ameraucana Eye Injury

[jaks2578]

Good morning all,

I am a little confused and need your help. Friday evening I noticed my Ameraucana’s left eye was swollen, watery, and pretty much featherless. I have read articles advising to flush eye injuries with saline and apply Neosporin around the eye. Then other articles advise to isolate the chicken and let the eye heal on its own.

I immediately isolated my Ameraucana. While her eye does not appear to be watering as much; she is scratching it and it still looks awful.

Please let me know how to help her. (I hope she is a hen. I truly do not know if my Ameraucana is a hen or roo. )

 

[azygous]

Your little patient is likely a pullet. You need to get a tube of Terramycin from the feed store. It's a bit stronger than Neosporin. Flush 2x daily with saline as you've been doing and put the Terramycin in her eye twice a day. No need to separate her.

Her scratching the eye indicates it's very painful. Give her half a baby aspirin 2x per day.

 

[ChickNanny13]

2x

 

[Eggcessive]

The eye looks to have conjunctivitis, sometimes from mycoplasma or MG. Are any other birds having respiratory problems? MG is a chronic disease passed by other carrier chickens or wild birds, on our shoes or clothes, and sometimes passed through the egg. The Terramycin eye ointment is good to use, and if she is sneezing, lethargic, or breathing hard, I would get some Tylan 50 injectable from a local feed store, and give 1/4 ml orally 3 times a day for 5 days.

 

[jaks2578]

Your little patient is likely a pullet. You need to get a tube of Terramycin from the feed store. It's a bit stronger than Neosporin. Flush 2x daily with saline as you've been doing and put the Terramycin in her eye twice a day. No need to separate her.

Her scratching the eye indicates it's very painful. Give her half a baby aspirin 2x per day.

Thank you so much!!!!!

 

[jaks2578]

The eye looks to have conjunctivitis, sometimes from mycoplasma or MG. Are any other birds having respiratory problems? MG is a chronic disease passed by other carrier chickens or wild birds, on our shoes or clothes, and sometimes passed through the egg. The Terramycin eye ointment is good to use, and if she is sneezing, lethargic, or breathing hard, I would get some Tylan 50 injectable from a local feed store, and give 1/4 ml orally 3 times a day for 5 days.

She is eating and drinking as normal. No respiratory issues whatsoever. A respiratory issue was the first thing I checked for as I just lost an entire flock (20 chickens) to CRD. So I am extremely careful when it comes to what they are exposed to. Even to the point that I switched my new flocks’ bedding from pine flakes to straw.