Can a chick recover and be able to stand again from eyeworm damage?

[FandangoRanch]

One of my chicks cannot stand. It has been 12 days now and my other sick chick had eyeworm but died last night. I want to know if the surviving chick has a chance at recovery after being treated for eyeworm. Please, if anyone has any idea?

 

[FandangoRanch]

Why am I not getting any answers? I am brand new to chickens. Is this something very few people have any experience with? I don't want to put this bird through any more if she cannot recover. The next thing I will have to do is to figure out how to humanely end this.

 

[silkies mama]

Well I just had a 3 month old chick die today, we were batteling eyeworms too. I never thought that they killed her though. But I could be wrong. She had a bad case of coccidia shortly after I got her at about 2 weeks. And there was a few days delay in getting the Corid to treat her, sighhhh... I think that the coccidia caused some real damage to her. She never quite recovered. Even though I treated her 3 times, 5 days each, tried a regular worming, and put her on antibotics, gave her yogurt, even baytril. We tried everything, to be honest I think your little kids may have something more then eye worms. Look up coccidia, I read today that they are in the birds even when they hatch. I don`t know if thats true or not. But coccidia is a killer so I would look into possibly treating your kids for that to start. I don`t think that will kill eyeworms, there are some other meds out for that. Sorry I`m not much help. My bird was a sweetie, and losing one really hurts. Sorry for your loss I know your pain, mine has only been gone for about 5 hours.

 

[FandangoRanch]

Thank you for replying. I'm sorry you lost your chick, so sad. I looked up Coccidia and neither of my two have had any of those symptoms. What area are you in that you have a case of eyeworm. They say it only happens in the tropics but I saw worms in my Buff Orpington's eyes and I now know that I saw both male nematodes and female nematodes. I will be sending his body to our provincial animal health department for necropsy. They have never heard of one case prior to this. It is all so strange. I just want to know if there is anything more I can do for my SLW. I did oxytetracycline and piperazine and finally topical Ivomec because that is what I could get my hands on. I suspect an overload of worms affected my Orpington's respiratory system and that is what finally did him in last night.

 

[FandangoRanch]

I really need to know if I should euthanize her yet.