Anyone!!!Just found this chick like this (pict) Swollen face!!

[flymamma]

My Paprika [ red sex link] just went through this in july .. if you can gently push on the eye [to express the cheesy goo ] till you dont see any more chessy goo [ I checked her eye everyday for cheese , if I saw any I could get out I would get it out ] , then put some eye ointment on it a few times a day and treat with oral antibiotics ... she might pull through . Mine did , her eye was kinda cloudy grey after she got better . THEN she got pecked in her bad eye , now it is kinda sunken in , and she is now completely blind... but she is doing fine . She is the sweetest of the bunch , she does now live in her own coop , because she is afraid to get pecked again and would not eat when she was in with the others ... good luck on your gal .

 

[threehorses]

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OH ok, I understand.

I guess what I'm trying to say now is that using antibiotics are actually hard on a bird - so you neither want to use one that's not working (thankfully yours did), nor do you want to use them inappropriately. Using an antibiotic for 2 months is very very hard on the digestive tract and will cause other issues that you don't want to have in your flock. Basically unless someone with extensive poultry health experience tells you to, you don't want to medicate over 21 days at all. 21 days is exceptional - usually meds are meant to be used 7 to 14 days.

And unfortunately treating longer for some respiratory illnesses doesn't mean it won't come back. Many poultry illnesses result in the birds being carriers, or susceptible to chronic disease (such as in Chronic Respiratory Disease) and if you treated for 10 years it would only make the bacteria possibly more resistant and would never make the CRD condition go away.

In the mean time, I do hope that you're done with the illness for good.

 

[chickenzoo]

It looks like Corzoa. If you only keep your birds as pets then treat them and then vaccinate them. Treatment for Corzoa.... 1 teaspoon of Gallimycin powder & 1 teaspoon of Aureomycin/Sulmet powder in 1 gallon drinking water for 7 days, then stop the Aureo/Sulmet and up the Gallimycin powder to 2 teaspoons per gallon for another 7 days. After treatment vaccinate all birds 3 weeks or older with 1/2cc Coryza vaccine. Repeat vaccine in 4 weeks. Birds still showing symtoms 2-4 weeks after are carriers and should be culled if possible. Information quoted from Peter Brown
Best Wishes

 

[dopi1327]

I have a chick with the same problem. It looks like one of the other chicks pecked at her eye then it swole up and have thick milky chunky stuff come out. I keep cleaning it out and she eats when I hold a bowl in front of her same with drinking. She walks around when I am outside always walking toward me. She does not seem to be able to see. Can I put antibiotics eye drops in her eyes to help. She also had a few mites around her eye. Could This have caused her problem? How can I get rid of the mites?
thanks