Blind chicken

[Dianna63020]

I found I have a blind chicken. I am uncertain how long or if perhaps she has always been blind as she gets around well. Eats drinks same as the others. The only reason I found her was my chickens come around me but do not like to be touched and less to be picked up. I always reach to touch them in hopes someday they may be more tame. They would climb all over me so long as I don't touch them. This chicken one day I reached and she didn't fling, continued feeding as the others. The more I moved my hand about her I realized she didn't see my hand at all. She squawked when I picked her up as the others do. Her pupils in both eyes have a white haze that looks like human cataracts do.
I continued to watched her now for about two weeks. She is healthy in every other way. Even forges with the others. She even goes to the water when others do for drink. Someone watching her would not know she was blind. She has not lost any weight.

Here are pics of her right eye the other is equally the same.




Thank you for your help in advance.


Dianna

 

[QueenMisha]

At my workplace we have a Dark Brahma hen with the same issue. No diseases, no obvious cause, but she has extremely limited vision. She does quite well free-ranging around the parking lot and back lot, unless we move something, in which case she will bump into it. I wouldn't worry too much, as long as she can eat and drink. Try to avoid moving things to make it easier for her.

 

[Dianna63020]

the only thing I can think, I used a bright heat lamp over winter when chicks. There was one, a rhode island red, which she is that pecked at the light like it was something. Maybe she was that bird I have no clue.
But thanks for your opinion glad you verified what I wanted to do. My dad told me to cull her, but honestly I'm not into it enough to kill chickens yet. I need to get over that because I do want chicken meat ............ chickens are safe for now, I only have 10, I am thinking of buying like 50 just to butcher and split with whoever will kill em.

 

[coleco]

Conjunctivitis can cause hazy eyes and permanent blindness. It's a result of ammonia fumes from soiled litter. Not saying that is what caused it, but i remembered reading that and thought it relevant.

 

[Dianna63020]

thats good to know, but they are free range, never closed up, in an open pinned area at night, but it doesn't have solid walls its all wire.

 

[OG Anomaly]

I found I have a blind chicken. I am uncertain how long or if perhaps she has always been blind as she gets around well. Eats drinks same as the others. The only reason I found her was my chickens come around me but do not like to be touched and less to be picked up. I always reach to touch them in hopes someday they may be more tame. They would climb all over me so long as I don't touch them. This chicken one day I reached and she didn't fling, continued feeding as the others. The more I moved my hand about her I realized she didn't see my hand at all. She squawked when I picked her up as the others do. Her pupils in both eyes have a white haze that looks like human cataracts do.
I continued to watched her now for about two weeks. She is healthy in every other way. Even forges with the others. She even goes to the water when others do for drink. Someone watching her would not know she was blind. She has not lost any weight.

Here are pics of her right eye the other is equally the same.




Thank you for your help in advance.


Dianna

I was wondering, does the eue always look white? Or only when it catches the light a certain way?

I have one that it's almost a white reflection, but if you look straight at her eye, its a black pupil like normal. She was injured and there was a lot of swelling and she's now blind in that eye, that's why I'm asking. TIA