chicken eye injury - puncture of eyeball

[sandy10m]

It looks like one of my heritage RIRs (6 months old) got pecked in the eye which punctured the eye. It must have happened this morning, and the liquid leaked out and was slightly bubbly. I assume there is nothing i can do except maybe put some antibiotics in the eye. And pray. Anyone ever have this? How did it turn out? Injury repaired, or loss of the eye? Ironically, her name is Iris.

 

[Eggcessive]

Welcome to BYC, and sorry for the circumstances. Can you post a clear picture of the eye? It will make it easier to determine if the eye is gone, or if there is just foam or bubbles. If the eye was punctured, there is nit much you can do, but rinse the eye with saline. If there are bubbles or foam, that could be signs of a respiratory disease. Treatment for that is rinsing the eye with saline or an eye wash followed by applying plain antibiotic ointment twice a day. Terramycin is very good if you have it.

 

[sandy10m]

Iris' eyeball seems to be healing, praise God, but the eyelid around the eyeball isn't happy. You probably already know, but you need a stupid prescription in order to get eye ointment now. So I am using people eye meds on the chicken, along with chlorine dioxide (made for pink eye). I am attaching a photo. This poor chicken is getting pecked a lot. I can't wait for the peepers to come in (shipped today) to put on the bully rooster Prince. And we will see if that stops his behavior, or else he becomes lunch.

 

[Wyorp Rock]

You can get a comparable ointment online that is off label.

It also looks like she may have Fowl Pox with all those lesions on the comb and around the eye.

You can paint the lesions on the comb with Iodine to help dry those up.

Carefully flush the eye with saline, then dot your ointment into the eye.

If she's getting bullied badly, then caging her within the coop/run with her own food water may lessen her stress and allow her to heal up more quickly.

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