Chicken half cloudy eye

[BigBlueHen53]

Let us see what the Educators think on this.
@Eggcessive @azygous @coach723

 

[BigBlueHen53]

Thank you for these pictures they should help!

 

[Eggcessive]

It does look like a peck eye injury. I would continue flushing the eye with saline and using either Terramycin or plain Neosporin triple antibiotic ointment 2-4 times daily for another week or two unless you can see a vet. She may be blind, but many chickens get around with sight in only one eye. But chickens have close up vision in one eye and far vision in the other, so it may cause some problems. The right eye is for close up vision, and she could have some problems seeing her food.

 

[Onionfatty]

It does look like a peck eye injury. I would continue flushing the eye with saline and using either Terramycin or plain Neosporin triple antibiotic ointment 2-4 times daily for another week or two unless you can see a vet. She may be blind, but many chickens get around with sight in only one eye. But chickens have close up vision in one eye and far vision in the other, so it may cause some problems. The right eye is for close up vision, and she could have some problems seeing her food.

thank you so much for the reply,I just out her second dose of terramycin today thankfully it got here on time, do you think its safe to have her added back to the flock since it doesnt seem to be contagious?

 

[coach723]

As long as she can hold her own with the flock, she can go back. If she's at risk of being further injured, I would wait a bit. I would for now, do it for shorter periods when you can supervise, so that if something happens you can intervene. If she can't see from that eye she won't see anything coming from that side, which will put her at an disadvantage. Hopefully there will be improvement with the ointment, time will tell if she has vision.
I'm definitely not an eye expert, and I don't know how similar things are between species in the eyes, but I have a cat with chronic uveitis (eye inflammation) due to autoimmune issues and if she has an eye bleed because of it sometimes it's actually red and bloody, but sometimes it's just cloudy from the veins in the back of the eye leaking fluid. So that possible could be why it was cloudy like that. Possibly from unknown trauma, which is what the Dr.s thought the first time it happened to my cat. As the eye clears up, keep checking her, with light and movement around that eye, to see if she has any vision.