Chickens eyes swelling... Have pics. Please please help!

[preciouspanda]

How much does she weigh? Tylan can be given 0.25 ml or 1/4 ml per pound. 3/4 ml would treat a 3 pound chicken. Remove the needle to give it. It can be given in higher doses as well in severe infections. Give it 3 to 4 times a day if you can manage for 3-5 days.

Don’t really know how much she weighs she’s a Rhodes island red and she almost 2 years old

 

[Eggcessive]

I would give her enough for a 5 or 6 pound hen. 1.25 ml for 5 pounds or 1.5 ml for 6 pounder. You also can weigh yourself holding her and subtract your own weight. I have an inexpensive kitchen scale that I found at WalMart in the kitchenware section.

 

[preciouspanda]

I would give her enough for a 5 or 6 pound hen. 1.25 ml for 5 pounds or 1.5 ml for 6 pounder.

Ok I give her that amount in time for her next dose anyway

 

[Glory9]

NO ONE KNOWS?? ANY IDEAS?? PLEASE HELP I don't want to lose my girls!

Help! A few days ago I found one of my 4 month old pullets with her left eye swollen and she was very lethargic. I brought her in that night and tried to nurse her back to health. The next day we found another one dead and one very very ill, weak, with both eyes horribly swollen shut and squaring in horrible pain everytime we moved her or tried to touch her. We went to Orscheln's and got them some antibiotics for their water... we treated high dose as they recommended.

The next day, I checked through my pullets and I had 4 more with either one swollen eye or a watery eye. I separated them from the rest and cleaned my coop out really well, placing new hay and making sure to clear out anything that had been in there.

This was what they looked like when I pulled them out

And

I went back out yesterday morning and all 4 of my sick babies were still alive. I gave them fresh high dose antibiotic water and looked a little closer as it was getting dark when I discovered their sickness. One appeared to no longer be draining. 1 a lot more swollen with her beak becoming displaced on the top, and the other two about the same. On closer inspection I see that they do have nasal drainage and the one with mild eye drainage and not much swelling has a "knot" in front of her eye (see picture). Maybe this is where this starts and not in the eye?

KNOT IN FRONT OF EYE

SWOLLEN EYE AND DISPLACED BEAK. (Her head is so swollen it look like a tumor)

These 4 still ate well and we're doing all right yesterday morning. Please help me! Any ideas???

Do not use straw. I found out that cockroaches are to blame for some type of thin worm around the eye lid . Yikes . Yes that looks painful I'm so sorry I just read this because now I am looking for a way to help my one hen . What ever did you find out ?

 

[Luckyt21]

Poultry Disease



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Dehydrated and hunched
Chickens can get 180 different poultry diseases – one of them causes swollen eyes in chickens – it is called ” Infectious Coryza” and once a chicken has it the bird is a carrier for life. It is caused and transmitted by dirty litter and over crowding – it can also be passed to younger birds very easily from older chickens. You will see the eyes of the chicken swelling up and the bird sitting hunched up – it affects the respiratory tract – so the chicken will be sneezing and will have a rasp in the throat, rattling – or a wheeze. The chicken will stop eating.


Swollen eyes
In bad cases of this poultry disease both of the chickens eyes will close – and this means that the hen or broiler will not be able to see – and therefore not be able to drink – you will need to give the chicken water with a syringe – or dip their beaks into the drinker – every hour until the chickens eyes open.


Both eyes shut
Infectious Coryza is treated with Sulphachloropyrazine Sodium or the other name is ESB 3. It comes in a powder form and is mixed with water – they will need to be treated for 3 – 6 days. You can see in the photo that the chicken is so dehydrated that it’s tongue is hard and cemented to the bottom beak – that is because both of the chickens eyes are swollen shut and she has not had water for some time – you will need to get water into the hen or broiler as soon as possible. This poultry disease, once your chicken is infected, cannot be got rid of. The bird will always be a carrier of the disease – so any new chickens coming on to your farm should not be housed close to the poultry houses that have had infected chickens – and good bio security practices must be followed.

Once you have started this chicken medication you will not be able to eat the eggs from the layer for 3 days after treatment – and in broilers you will not be able to eat the chicken for 6 days afterwards. To prevent this your chicken houses or chicken coop must be spotless and free of infection before placing new birds – this means a complete scrub out of your poultry house with disinfectant and leaving the chicken house closed for at least 30 days – 60 days is better. If you are free ranging the poultry disease can be in the soil around the house – it is most easily passed through the water and dropping – fly’s can also transfer the chicken disease from hen to hen. Leave enough space between your chicken houses, and make sure you have a foot bath with chemical between each chicken coop. Don’t let other people on to your farm, and if you have to make sure they wear gumboots from your farm and properly wash before and after visiting the chicken farm. You should not visit other chicken farms as you will pass the poultry disease on.

Infectious Coryza shows when the chickens eyes are swollen. If you are watching your chickens properly you will see the first signs of the poultry disease show as the chicken blowing little bubble from her nose – this is the first sign – if you catch it then and treat with chicken medication this poultry disease can be stopped before you end up with chickens whose eyes swell up. Left untreated, this bird sickness can spread rapidly through your chicken house, and the chickens will die if left untreated. If the chickens are not reponding to treatment after 6 days it is advisable to inject the chicken with medication – usually poultry antibiotics. This is not what is known as dikkop in South Africa.

Where does one buy the Sulphachloropyrazine Sodium or ESB3? I am starting to have the same problem with my 4 month old flock. 1 Swollen eye in a few of them. I thought they were bug bites (Minnesota) at first but they are not getting better. I have been using vet Rx on them.

 

[Eggcessive]

Where does one buy the Sulphachloropyrazine Sodium or ESB3? I am starting to have the same problem with my 4 month old flock. 1 Swollen eye in a few of them. I thought they were bug bites (Minnesota) at first but they are not getting better. I have been using vet Rx on them.

That is a sulfonamide antibiotic, and I am not sure that it is available in the US. But sulfadimethoxine and bactrim are similar and available. You can check with a vet, and the sulfadimethoxine is available from some pigeon suppliers, such as jedds.com (Medicox.) It helps to know what you are treating though. Some respiratory diseases that cause eye swelling are MG, which is better treated with Tylan or tylosin. Coryza is treated with sulfonamides.

If you start a new thread with symptoms and a picture of what you are seeing, there would be more attention than posting on this old thread.