Emergency!!!

[hibxxx]

anyone knows what happened to my chicks eye and the area around its eye, is it okay?! it just happened today, but it's very active and happy also eats ad drinks well.. is it eye infection around the eye area? View attachment 2923660

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I'm very worried, where i live they don't sell stuff related to chickens so it would be hard to find medicine.. i can't take it to the vet either because they don't check chickens and there aren't any farms here. (i bought it from a pet shop.) this is only with one eye by the way..

 

[The-White-Elephant]

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anyone knows what happened to my chicks eye and the area around its eye, is it okay?! it just happened today, but it's very active and happy also eats ad drinks well.. is it eye infection around the eye area? View attachment 2923660View attachment 2923661
I'm very worried, where i live they don't sell stuff related to chickens so it would be hard to find medicine.. i can't take it to the vet either because they don't check chickens and there aren't any farms here. (i bought it from a pet shop.) this is only with one eye by the way..

think it got but by maybe a mosquito or bug or something. @azygous @Eggcessive what do you guys think?

 

[Ebony Rose]

My first gut reaction was peck wound, and then I saw the second picture. I'm a little concerned about the bubble in the eye. I do not have first hand experience with illness that includes bubbly eyes, so I must defer to others here on the forum for suggestions.
As a precaution, I would isolate this chick from your uninjured/healthy chicks until you get a better understanding of what's going on with it. Preferably this isolation will be across the room but where they can still see/hear each other to reduce reintroduction to the flock issues.

 

[azygous]

Treat all eye issues the same. Flush with saline eye drops (dry eye lube) Then put terramycin or Neopsporin eye ointment in the eye to fight infection. Do these two things twice a day until it heals.

 

[Eggcessive]

It could be a chronic respiratory disease mycoplasma gallisepticum (MG,) or it could have been pecked around the eye. Where are you located? Did you get this chick from someone or hatch it yourself? MG can be passed through the hatching egg or by direct exposure to a carrier chicken or wild bird.

 

[Myrshine]

Doesnt look like a pecking wound to me, looks more like a respiratory infection such as Mycoplasma Gallisepticum (MG), Infectious Coryza or Infectious Laryngotracheitis (ILT). I suggest getting testing done. If you’re in the US, I suggest submitting a form from either Zoologix or Research Associates Laboratory (RAL) to get PCR testing for the diseases I’ve listed above.