Blind sick chicken found alone in park help

[BigBlueHen53]

I have nothing useful or productive to add. You and your chicken are in good hands. I just wanted to let you know we're rooting for you and wishing you all the best. You've taken on a challenge, but I have confidence in you. I'm praying for your courage and determination to stay strong, and for your efforts to have the best possible outcome!

 

[Anotherchickenaround]

Thank you so much for the advice all, here’s an update. She’s being moved to a different location thanks to a friend that’s offered to host her because I’m worried about my chickens catching this. We’re going to be working further to help her tomorrow morning from said location and I’m calling an avian vet in the morning. Tomorrow we’re going to try to work on her eyes more and hopefully get the pus out somehow as well as monitor her water. I haven’t been able to get her to eat yet if anyone has ideas on how to help her that way

 

[CoopBoots]

So far as eating, simplest thing I can think to suggest is guiding her to dip her beak into something moist. Raw egg yolk could work, maybe some yogurt generously mixed into some crumbled feed? If she can taste it and knows it's right in front of her, she might make an effort...

Is she willing to drink when her beak touches water, at least?

 

[Anotherchickenaround]

Update: She’s still alive and my friend was able to help get the stuff out of one of her eyes. Unfortunately, we’re having an issue with housing. I can’t keep her because I don’t have a space that doesn’t put my chickens at risk and the people my friend is living with want him to get rid of her so we’re trying to find someone that can take care of her asap. Is there anyone near the Leesburg area in Florida that I could reach out to? We still can’t get her to eat

 

[MROO]

Update: She’s still alive and my friend was able to help get the stuff out of one of her eyes. Unfortunately, we’re having an issue with housing. I can’t keep her because I don’t have a space that doesn’t put my chickens at risk and the people my friend is living with want him to get rid of her so we’re trying to find someone that can take care of her asap. Is there anyone near the Leesburg area in Florida that I could reach out to? We still can’t get her to eat

I'm nowhere near Florida, but I can help with the eating/drinking issue. If you lay a drop of liquid alongside a bird's closed beak, they swallow automatically. If you need to get water, electrolytes or food into your hen, take advantage of that reflex. You'll need to turn your feed into "soup." Egg yolk or super runny scrambled eggs should work, but If the stuff won't go into and out of an eyedropper, it's not runny enough. It has to be able to flow into her mouth and slide down her throat. Lay the liquid alongside her closed beak like you would a drop of water. It doesn't always work, but I've been pretty lucky with the method, so far.
Keep us posted. You have a lot of people rooting for you!

 

[Anotherchickenaround]

I'm nowhere near Florida, but I can help with the eating/drinking issue. If you lay a drop of liquid alongside a bird's closed beak, they swallow automatically. If you need to get water, electrolytes or food into your hen, take advantage of that reflex. You'll need to turn your feed into "soup." Egg yolk or super runny scrambled eggs should work, but If the stuff won't go into and out of an eyedropper, it's not runny enough. It has to be able to flow into her mouth and slide down her throat. Lay the liquid alongside her closed beak like you would a drop of water. It doesn't always work, but I've been pretty lucky with the method, so far.
Keep us posted. You have a lot of people rooting for you!

Update: my friend and I tried to get the rest of the stuff out of one of her eyes. It looked like this after. Also, I tried to get her to eat both yolk and wet crumble feed that way and unfortunately she refused again after thinking it was water and realizing it wasnt. Any more ideas?

 

[azygous]

Removing the pus is a first good step. The infection still remains, however. Daily flushing with saline is necessary and twice a day an antibiotic ointment must be put into the eyes.

 

[Anotherchickenaround]

Unfortunately, because she has the wet pox variant of fowl pox, she is going to have to be put down. Even if she recovers, she will always be contagious to other birds through her poop and it just isn’t safe. We’ve made the hard decision of bringing her to be humanely euthanized. I will update again when she is no longer in pain.

 

[Eggcessive]

Sorry about your chicken. Wet fowl pox is not shed in the poop. She doesn’t appear to have wet fowl pox, which causes yellow plaques inside the beak and throat, does she? She could have dry pox that has caused scabs around the eyes, but respiratory disease could also be just the problem. Those can affect other chickens possibly for life.

 

[Anotherchickenaround]

Sorry about your chicken. Wet fowl pox is not shed in the poop. She doesn’t appear to have wet fowl pox, which causes yellow plaques inside the beak and throat, does she? She could have dry pox that has caused scabs around the eyes, but respiratory disease could also be just the problem. Those can affect other chickens possibly for life.

She did, she had both