Chicken all of a sudden acts blind, sneaking around, head jerking

[Bossmode]

The softgels I have found are fairly large, I tried to suck it out with a syringe but the gel itself is pretty thick and barely sucks up. Is there a way to dilute it? Water did not do the trick... The Pill itself is just too big to shove down her beak.

 

[Wyorp Rock]

The softgels I have found are fairly large, I tried to suck it out with a syringe but the gel itself is pretty thick and barely sucks up. Is there a way to dilute it? Water did not do the trick... The Pill itself is just too big to shove down her beak.

I've found that Vitamin E is very hard to dilute. Try slitting (careful with the knife!) the gel cap and squirting the oil on a few pieces of eggs or mealworms, etc. You could try also try just squirting the oil inside the beak after you make the slit.

Vitamin E is also hard to wash off (for me anyway).

 

[Eggcessive]

I usually poke a fork tine or the end of a steak knife into an E softgel and squirt it onto some feed or into some scdambled egg.

 

[Bossmode]

Update: have been giving her Vitamin E daily without any noticeable improvement so far. She still acts weird, she is 'sneaking' around and bumping into the wall at times, I still don't think she can see anything even tho her eyes look fairly normal to me. Not sure what to do with this poor girl.

 

[Eggcessive]

Sorry that she doesn’t seem to see well. Can she see a treat sprinkled on the ground in front of her? I would keep giving the vitamin E a little longer. She may need to be kept in a smaller area where things are familiar to her, so that she can find food and water.

 

[Bossmode]

No she does not see anything. I can put my hands around her face without touching her and she does not react, when I sit on the floor and she sits on my leg she walks away as if there isn't a 'drop off' I did this on hay so she wouldn't get hurt.
If I put water or food down she does not go to it, she 'finds' it by stepping on it and has survived fine so far. She is in a smaller area away from the rest of the flock as they were picking on her. I have her with another little one that wasn't accepted by the flock, and they seem to be tight friends.

 

[blackandtan]

I have no advice for helping her medical trouble, but I also have a blind bird (a pheasant), and he didn’t lose his sight till around 16 weeks or so, but he seems to have adjusted well.
He is in a spacious cage by himself, the floor is a big kitty litter box and the “litter” is his food, this way I know he can always find enough to eat. There is a perch in the middle that I don’t move and in the corner there is a little water fountain and the sound helps him find his water.
Just some ideas for you

 

[Amberan02]

I found one of my hens stuck in the coop this evening. She also acts like she can’t see and bumps into things. I put her in a cage by herself, but curious what happened to yours.