Chickens Eye

[DaniDDarden]

I went to my parents today and their chickens eye is messed up and in pain. Does anyone have any suggestions on what is wrong with her and what medicine would treat it?

 

[Tonyroo]

@Eggcessive @Wyorp Rock , can you help?

 

[TheOddOneOut]

Looks like it has Mycoplasma Galliscepticum.

 

[Wyorp Rock]

Welcome To BYC

Poor girl has an eye infection. Bubbles in the eye usually indicates respiratory illness like Mycoplasma, but every once in a while a bird may suffer from eye infection due to getting debris or foreign material stuck in the sinus.

Does she have any lesions, mucous or canker inside of her beak?
Coughing/sneezing or wheezing?

General care would be to flush the eye with saline, press the on the swelling to get pus and/or debris out of the eye, then apply an eye ointment like Terramycin. Do this 2-3 times a day.

An antibiotic like Tylosin may also be helpful in treating symptoms, but the pus in the eye has to be pressed out, it will not dry up on it's own.

 

[Eggcessive]

The video above is not working. Here is a video about pressing out pus and the sinus are in front of the eye may be full too:

 

[DaniDDarden]

The video above is not working. Here is a video about pressing out pus and the sinus are in front of the eye may be full too:

Welcome To BYC

Poor girl has an eye infection. Bubbles in the eye usually indicates respiratory illness like Mycoplasma, but every once in a while a bird may suffer from eye infection due to getting debris or foreign material stuck in the sinus.

Does she have any lesions, mucous or canker inside of her beak?
Coughing/sneezing or wheezing?

General care would be to flush the eye with saline, press the on the swelling to get pus and/or debris out of the eye, then apply an eye ointment like Terramycin. Do this 2-3 times a day.

An antibiotic like Tylosin may also be helpful in treating symptoms, but the pus in the eye has to be pressed out, it will not dry up on it's own.

They got her in the beginning of august. She seemed to have maybe sinus however I suspected more because she had almost no red in above her beak and was so lethargic. The people gave her this all All-in-one powder (pic attached). Which didn’t seem to do much except stop the little bit of sneezing and give her a little pep in her step.
Then her eye started. So we tried Tractor supply’s eye wash & antibiotic eye ointment. Which helped some but over the next few weeks her eye got worse. So I called a mobile vet. She prescribed Tetracycline HCl in Almond Oil Suspension SF (compounded). Which made her feel better and her color came back. The eye stopped bubbling but it formed a large ball which never changed pic attached). We just assumed that it would eventually go away.
I believe she may of hit it or was pecked Friday and now it’s terrible.

 

[DaniDDarden]

Welcome To BYC

Poor girl has an eye infection. Bubbles in the eye usually indicates respiratory illness like Mycoplasma, but every once in a while a bird may suffer from eye infection due to getting debris or foreign material stuck in the sinus.

Does she have any lesions, mucous or canker inside of her beak?
Coughing/sneezing or wheezing?

General care would be to flush the eye with saline, press the on the swelling to get pus and/or debris out of the eye, then apply an eye ointment like Terramycin. Do this 2-3 times a day.

An antibiotic like Tylosin may also be helpful in treating symptoms, but the pus in the eye has to be pressed out, it will not dry up on it's own.

I will go back to my parents and check for wheezing or sneezing. I don’t believe she seemed sick. But she definitely seems to be in pain.

 

[WhySayWhat]

That really looks like she has an abcess (puss pocket) by her eye that needs draining. If you aren't comfortable doing it yourself, call around your local vets and fins one that works on poultry.

 

[DaniDDarden]

I will go back to my parents and check for wheezing or sneezing. I don’t believe she seemed sick. But she definitely seems to be in pain.

She does seem to be having some sorta sinus issue going on… its alittle runnny and must be stuffy cause she opens her beak to breath.
min her beak the side that’s swollen is also swollen through to the inside of her beak.

 

[Eggcessive]

Tylosin is also very good to help treat sinus infections and pinkeye caused by mycoplasma (MG.) It is a chronic disease, and she will be a carrier. Unless you can get the pus out the antibiotics may not help. Here is an article about MG:
https://extension.umd.edu/sites/def... Mycoplasma gallisepticum (MG) Infecti....pdf