Dark eye

[Mellissa James]

One of my silvers as of today. Husband reported she was going after the worms a bit weird, head tilted odd. Otherwise totally seems fine. Not laying presently (none are), she is about year and half old. Eating, drinking and such fine. She seems to have some sort of sense, if you move hand close to bad eye she does move away. Still blinking it too. No discharge or swelling or nothing. Ideas???

 

[fawndane]

@Wyorp Rock

 

[Wyorp Rock]

I can only guess - change in eye color and the pinpointed eye reminds me ocular form of Marek's.

Maybe @Eggcessive can chime in.

 

[EdnaAndEdith]

Looks like a corneal ulcer to me. If you can take her to a vet they can stain her cornea and see if that’s what it is. It’s pretty cheap to do. Any trauma or anything she could have scratched her eye on or someone else pecked her? I don’t know about chickens but in other animals it can happen from even their own claw or a stray blade of grass... anything that can cause a scratch on the cornea and allow bacteria to grow. Although you would need a vet to confirm if that’s what it is.

 

[EdnaAndEdith]

I’m sorry on closer inspection of the pictures it doesn’t appear as much to be an ulcer. I didn’t see the pupil like that when I first looked.

 

[The Phantom]

Maybe blind? Normally the eye turns white when the eye goes blind.

 

[Mellissa James]

The pupil was still reacting to the flashlight almost the same as the good one (it wasn'. Stuck open, just a bit slower) The pics of ocular mereks don't really seem to match, but I did find a thread about a scratched the eyeball and the picture was almost exactly the same. She def doesn't show any other signs of mereks (thank goodness!)

 

[Wyorp Rock]

Maybe it's the angle of the 2nd photo but her non gray eye doesn't look normal to me either. I'm not saying it's Marek's but that's the only thing that comes to mind.

There are 3 forms of Marek's, Neural (this is where you see paralysis, wry neck, etc.), Visceral (internal and skin tumors) and Ocular (affects the eyes - change of color, shape, etc.)

Note the "pinpointed eye"
Photo reference http://partnersah.vet.cornell.edu/avian-atlas/search/disease/502#/disease/Marek's_Disease

 

[Mellissa James]

I was holding flashlight near and it was dilating to react to light/dark.

What I didn't see much of is chickens after ocular mereks. Saw one that also was covered in tumors and one that she said had bad eyes but doing fine otherwise.

I've had the same chickens for couple years and no one else has any issues (the silvers were both vacinatted, which I understand does not 100% prevent, and the other 3 girls are year+ older)

 

[Mellissa James]

I ment other 3 girls 2plus years older, if it matters.