Early signs of sinus infection?

[AugeredIn]

I see the sinus wall move on mine regularly. But I bet that there is a more pronounced movement when the are stuffed up.

 

[casportpony]

I see the sinus wall move on mine regularly. But I bet that there is a more pronounced movement when the are stuffed up.

It was quite pronounced, quite a bit more than any of the others were.

-Kathy

 

[AugeredIn]

I'll have to watch for this a little closer. Of course I can take a 30 minute walk past all the pens and tell you which birds are not feeling well and a lot of the time which hens will lay that evening. You just get in tune with the animals. It is hard to explain that to some people. You don't always know exactly what you see, you just know something has changed.

 

[casportpony]

I'll have to watch for this a little closer. Of course I can take a 30 minute walk past all the pens and tell you which birds are not feeling well and a lot of the time which hens will lay that evening. You just get in tune with the animals. It is hard to explain that to some people. You don't always know exactly what you see, you just know something has changed.

It is hard to explain...

-Kathy

 

[zazouse]

I'll have to watch for this a little closer. Of course I can take a 30 minute walk past all the pens and tell you which birds are not feeling well and a lot of the time which hens will lay that evening. You just get in tune with the animals. It is hard to explain that to some people. You don't always know exactly what you see, you just know something has changed.

I know exactly what you mean, i got a white one hunched today but i had a pea bomb go off yesterday and i am betting she hit something in the panic birds went every direction.

 

[Garden Peas]

Okay, I went out and took about a gazillion photos this afternoon, most of which captured dirt, other peafowls' trains, blank space... I managed to get a few, not great photos of both eyes, and of each eye individually. I still don't see anything obviously wrong or different between the eyes, but whatever is causing him to close the left eye is still going on. Here's what I got:







Here's the right eye, it looks fine:







Okay, I'm going to have to load the left eye (the one I'm worried about) in the next post, because the photos aren't loading well, and I don't want to lose the ones that are already in...

 

[Garden Peas]

Okay, here's the left eye:



















For anyone who hasn't tried it... this was about like trying to capture photos of a ping pong ball during a tournament match

Anyway, I was hoping maybe I could see something in the photos that I can't see well in person. I keep wondering if there is some smallish amount of swelling below/to the rear of the left eye, or if I am just imagining it? I don't notice it in all of the photos. There was no sneezing, no coughing, and he seems otherwise well. No nasal discharge, no obvious eye injury, no blood or discoloration, no cloudiness or hazing. But you can see that he is closing or partially closing it much of the time, and even open, it is not as full and open as the right eye.

What do you more experienced peafolk see? Am I just missing it?

Thanks so very much!

 

[DylansMom]

Okay, here's the left eye:



















For anyone who hasn't tried it... this was about like trying to capture photos of a ping pong ball during a tournament match

Anyway, I was hoping maybe I could see something in the photos that I can't see well in person. I keep wondering if there is some smallish amount of swelling below/to the rear of the left eye, or if I am just imagining it? I don't notice it in all of the photos. There was no sneezing, no coughing, and he seems otherwise well. No nasal discharge, no obvious eye injury, no blood or discoloration, no cloudiness or hazing. But you can see that he is closing or partially closing it much of the time, and even open, it is not as full and open as the right eye.

What do you more experienced peafolk see? Am I just missing it?

Thanks so very much!

Great job on the pictures. As for what I see, or should I say don't see. I see no sign of swelling at all, since there is no sneezing, coughing, or discharge I would lean toward eye injury. Since you see no obvious sign of that either I wonder if it could be a really minor scratch that is just causing some irritation. Hubby had a minor corneal abrasion occur at work and went to the doctors. It was so minor you could not see anything, but for about 3 weeks he felt like he had a grain of sand in his eye. It healed eventually and was fine, so I wonder if this is the same, hubby blinked constantly, he couldn't help it. It's a reflex to try and get the foreign object out of there and relieve the irritation. This would be my thoughts if he were mine, and I would just continue to monitor it.

 

[KsKingBee]

I think Mindy is right on the money. The hen I had cleared up on its own and yours is probably going to be fine in a few days too. You know how it feels to get a speck of dirt under the lid, irritating.