- May 19, 2014
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about a week or so ago one of my hens had a swollen and shut eye. so I put some neosporin on it. now it seems better although she does close it from time to time. but the eye looks different now. at first when she opened it back up it was all black and then some days later the iris looks orange and the pupil is small and kind of vertically slanted. Besides that, she is a perfectly normal chicken - no nasal discharge or any other signs of illness. She likes to keep herself mostly. All the other chickens are fine. I did have one die last week but she was older and had some problems getting around and also had a breast blister that never fully healed. So I am kind of concerned - I have the impression that she is blind in that eye now. But could it be something else like something contagious I have to worry about. Thanks