Button Quail eye Infection?

[Murphy_the_Hooligan]

I have a few buttonquail, one of which is a silver male.

Back in April, when I was inexperienced, I kept my pair (silver male, brown female) with their offspring (brown male, brown female) in the same cage. The brown roo attacked my silver male and I thought he lost his eyes. The blood dried and fell off, his eyesight is fine, however I noticed his one eye has been bothering him since. It’s the eye that got the worst damage.

His feathers are all brown where he keeps itching his eye on his side, and his eye appears to be leaking brown fluid. Is it an infection? What can I do to help him? I thought it would go away on its own, but it’s been almost 9 months.

 

[sourland]

Have you checked the eye to see if perhaps it healed with a feather growing into the eye. There is a condition in dogs, entropion, where eye lashes are turned in causing chronic irritation.

 

[Murphy_the_Hooligan]

Have you checked the eye to see if perhaps it healed with a feather growing into the eye. There is a condition in dogs, entropion, where eye lashes are turned in causing chronic irritation.

Oh my goodness! I didn’t know to check for that! How noticeable would it be? Do I need lots of lighting and a magnifying glass?

 

[Murphy_the_Hooligan]

I looked in his eye and don’t really see anything. I flushed it with saline and I’m hoping that helps. These are the best pictures I could get. I’m wondering if it’s something that’s just so tiny in there