Eye infection in Polish roo

[AngelzFyre]

I'm so glad he's doing better! You caught it early and treated it so that's 99.9% of it.
Hopefully he'll be good as new by the end of the week

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The only reason I have so many ointments and meds already here is because we are rural and it always figures that stuff happens either late Friday afternoon or on the doggone weekends!
An emergency vet is over an hour away!
I was a vet tech for 20 yrs, specializing in equines. Worked with a husband/wife veterinary team and when a horse fell on me and demolished my knee I went the last 6 yrs they owned the clinic into the small animal part with his wife, and then stayed a year and a half with the new vet that bought their practice before I "retired" to stay home and home school our children.
Because of this, I can handle a lot of things with the horses, dogs and cats myself and am very confident.
The chickens...not so much! I learn MANY things on BYC daily and read like a fiend for hours nightly to pick up what I can so I can feel just as at home with the birds.

Take care and thanks for the follow up, keep posting on his progress!
Randi Lynn

 

[WriterofWords]

Wiped his eyes before bed last night the Betadine solution and when I got up this morning both his eyes were open! They are still a little swollen and red, but they were open with no puss. He is still having trouble seeing, but I'm hoping that improves with time. We clipped all of his feathers on his face and head that could reach anywhere near his eyes, he looks like he was attacked with a weed whacker because he wasn't really thrilled with the idea. He and Helena seem to be getting along ok, but darn she's bossy!

 

[AngelzFyre]

Yay! I'm so glad he's getting better.

Maybe Helena is teaching the definition of "hen pecked"? Good thing to get him broken in early!

Hopefully his sight will improve as the infection leaves, if not, then Helena just may be his seeing eye hen and will help him when you put him in with the others.
Sounds like he's making a good recovery though.

Have a great week! Thanks for the updates.

 

[WriterofWords]

Both eyes are much better tonight, I'm thrilled at how fast he is progressing. He can see out of both of them, but you can tell the right one is stronger, he turns his head to see out of that side, but if I move my hand by the left one he ducks. Thanks again!

 

[sunheeter]

This is what I'm dealing with. :/ we just adopted this boy, and he's got a major eye infection. I've got drops from the previous owner, and I cut back his crest pretty dramatically because it was heavy on the one side and pushing skin into his eye. Is there more I can do??