Chicken with swollen eye

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Sep 14, 2022
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Hi everyone! I got a chicken who seems to have lost a battle. She’s got a swollen eye, it’s been 3 days since I noticed it! When I first noticed it she would open it, I tried rinsing it with warm water but I may have made it worse because now she won’t open it at all.
The eye is not leaking
There is no crusting around the eye
The hen is not sneezing
I have listened to her lungs and there is no fluid buildup
Her poop was green and wet
It’s now less green and solidified

She wouldn’t eat at first but I think it because she just can’t see well because when I put the food in front of her good eye (right eye) she eats what I put down. Her appetite is small but she’s always been one of my smaller hens.

She is not lethargic but since she’s in a cage she falls asleep, I think she sleeps from boredom or perhaps she in pain.— I just described lethargy 😑

I have her separated from the flock and I have eye ointment for chickens coming between today and tomorrow— VETERRA

Has this ever happened to anyone else? And do you have any advice?

The very last picture is when I found her and as you can see it was much more swollen- this gives me hope because I too just noticed that the swelling has gone down
 

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Also- there is no discharge of any kind leaving her body. I havnt tried rinsing it again in fear that I might be making it worse. She currently isn’t laying which I’m assuming it’s too much energy for her right now.
 

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