Chicken having vision problems

[Silkie Princess]

I forgot about this thread...she didn't end up making it . She kind of just gave up in the end

I'm so sorry!

 

[Silkie Princess]

This is my Leghorn hen. She has had a small pupil since I got her (as a POL). It never gets bigger unlike her other pupil. Does this mean she's blind?

 

[ThinMintTheChicken]

This is my Leghorn hen. She has had a small pupil since I got her (as a POL). It never gets bigger unlike her other pupil. Does this mean she's blind?

Hm, I don't know. I thought that when they become blind the eye turns cloudy. I have a legbar hen whose eye is vertical, and it looks like a snake eye. She can see just fine out of it. Whereas our rooster whose eye is half blinded and cloudy can't see as well as the others. We used to have another rooster who was fully blind in one eye, got injured in the other, and was temporarily fully blind (turning around in circles with his head stretched out). The injured eye healed but he died a couple months later because he got crushed by a hay bale

 

[Silkie Princess]

I was asking because I saw @CrazyCochin's thread about a blind CCL hen. And the hen's eye looked very similair to my Leghorns eye

 

[CrazyCochin]

I was asking because I saw @CrazyCochin's thread about a blind CCL hen. And the hen's eye looked very similair to my Leghorns eye

You summoned me?

 

[Silkie Princess]

You summoned me?

Or was it @RoosterWhisperer ?

 

[CrazyCochin]

Or was it @RoosterWhisperer ?

Rooster.

 

[CrazyCochin]

Said hen is still blind, but she isn’t affected by it much. She got to go back with the big flock from her recovery kennel.

 

[Silkie Princess]

Said hen is still blind, but she isn’t affected by it much. She got to go back with the big flock from her recovery kennel.

That's great!

 

[Silkie Princess]

I tried "testing" if the hen was blind but she didn't blink when I went really close to her eye, even with the good one. I accidentally shone a (not too bright) torch in her eye and he did flinch. So I guess she's not blind. Thankfully