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

[CH!CK3N L0V3R]

im currently having the same issue with my 2 month old rhode island red chick. her left eye is fine but the right eye is jus as terribly swollen. i think its because another bird has pecked it. shes probably going to be blind in the swollen eye. i just need to find out how to heal it. is there any type of cheap medicine or organic substance that can heal it?

 

[Americanaluver]

Quote:
Two of my chicks had that, I bought medicated eye drops and it worked! I treat one of 2 months and the other I was still treating, one of them had a pussy eye, the other had no pupil and was blind! The medicated eye drops got rid of her blindness, Its hard to believe, buts it true. The second one sadly died though, she had the pussy eye. First time I saw it, I was like, Little roo roo did you peck her eye again? I popped it, and cleaned it out, and put the eye drops in. The next day, she had it again, but it was way smaller, it was like the remains of the one yesterday, I popped it two, looked around her eye and noticed she had a popped blood vessel in her eye, that's what the puss came from. Well, I treated her again that day, I was planing on bringing her to the bird doc, down my street tomorrow, I let her back out to run around with the chicks. 2 hours after I treated her eye, I was on the computer doing work, when I noticed it was poring! I ran out side, and her and her chickie friends were all drench! I scooped them all up and put them in there cage, it totally slipped my mind to bring them inside and dry them off! Well, the next morning, I came into the pen and let them out, I couldn't see the puss chick anywhere, only shavings, I looked everywhere and couldn't find her, I looked in there cage again, and that's when I saw her, she was under the shavings in a corner of the cage, dead, wings spread out and all, eye filled will puss, wet and cold.

I am now watching her eye problem buddy closely, Yoda "that's his name" is doing fine, not blind anymore, but has an over lap of eye muscle covering one tiny bit of his eye, only one, he jumps plays and acts like any other teen age chicken, I still treat him though, I might keep treating him until 2009/1/9'th, the first day of the first month! If you want to treat your chick with this, just ask me, and I'll give you the label of it, hopefully it will get rid of it

But if it doesn't get rid of it after 3 weeks, I am sorry to say, but you have to put her down... bring her to a vet if you want someone else to do it.. its allot more easy that way, I know you don't want to put her down...

 

[threehorses]

CH!CK3N L0V3R :

im currently having the same issue with my 2 month old rhode island red chick. her left eye is fine but the right eye is jus as terribly swollen. i think its because another bird has pecked it. shes probably going to be blind in the swollen eye. i just need to find out how to heal it. is there any type of cheap medicine or organic substance that can heal it?

Well, sterile saline wash to cleanse it, and then terramycin ointment ($10 to 15 a tiny tube but it lasts ages) to treat it. At least the former.

Giving them A, D, E vitamins helps as A is the ocular heal.​

 

[threehorses]

Americanalover, I do believe your flock had something else. Injuries don't kill a bird. An infection close to the brain takes longer. I suspect likely a chronic respiratory illness and that the terramycin ointment took care of the eye infection.

By the way, if you're treating for 2 months, then the med you're using isn't working and should be stopped. Try a different ointment, or a systemic medicine and ointment combined.

Or try Tylan50 injectable injected, and used diluted as an eye drop.

 

[Americanaluver]

Quote:
The Medication I used for 2 months, worked 2 weeks after, I was just treating it so it wouldn't come back.

 

[SunshineSilkies]

I'd say Coryza also...I don't like to cull but I have learned the hard way that it is much easier to cull one in the beginning than have to cull the whole flock later..........................

 

[faykokoWV]

Do you always have to cull as sick bird, isn't an isolation pen away from the coop and run area an option?

 

[cthrash1]

Could mites do that? Get under the eyelid? It looks like the eyelash area is crusty or whitish... And a few white specks on the feathers

 

[Chickenaddict]

You don't HAVE to cull any birds if you don't want to but if it is something really contagious like coryza you had better be prepared to shut the door on selling, showing, going to other chicken owners houses, swaps or anywhere other chickens will be. I would personally cull and take it in for a necropsy for your own piece of mind and the health of the rest of your flock. It is the only way to be sure what you are dealing with here, better to be safe then sorry

 

[BayChicks]

I don't know that I've ever posted, but when I saw your post I had to. We went through this this summer - think we brought coryza home from a swap this spring. I fought it for months - cull it. Coryza is a nightmare.
We finally culled our flock - 60+ birds - layers as well as my children's pets. It's heartbreaking. Wish I'd culled in the beginning!
Even if the bird recovers, it will probably die later anyway of reprocussions from the disease.
I just can't tell you how horrible it's been! This whole thing has affected our lives for months. I'd never take that chance again.