Eye infection

[Darrell Cunningham]

my Ayam 3week old Ayam Cermani was born with a bad eye she's blind in it . She now has a eye infection in it whiteish looking looks like I could be spreading. What kind of medicine can I get to stop an eye infection from tractor supply . Or home remedy .

 

[microchick]

Is the eye crusty with a pussy discharge, lids stuck together? Or is it just an overall milky color to the iris and cornea?

If crusty, it is a probable bacterial infection. You can clean the eyelids with a warm compress to loosen the crusties if it is a bacterial infection and use bacitracin antibiotic first aid ointment until you can get something else. Apply the ointment twice a day. You can get it in direct contact with the eye without it causing harm. Even if you smear it over the eye, body temperature will cause it to melt and run into the eye.

 

[Darrell Cunningham]

Milky color to the Iris whose scaly outer areas

 

[microchick]

Usually with a bacterial infection there is oozing, mattering and crusting from the eye. Oft time the eye is mattered shut. If the eye is milky without oozing or mattering it does not sound like an infection to me.Unless the problem is internal with the eye.

Is the eye bothering her? Is she rubbing or scratching at the eye with her foot?

Any way you could post a picture?

 

[Darrell Cunningham]

Usually with a bacterial infection there is oozing, mattering and crusting from the eye. Oft time the eye is mattered shut. If the eye is milky without oozing or mattering it does not sound like an infection to me.Unless the problem is internal with the eye.

Is the eye bothering her? Is she rubbing or scratching at the eye with her foot?

Any way you could post a picture?

Usually with a bacterial infection there is oozing, mattering and crusting from the eye. Oft time the eye is mattered shut. If the eye is milky without oozing or mattering it does not sound like an infection to me.Unless the problem is internal with the eye.

Is the eye bothering her? Is she rubbing or scratching at the eye with her foot?

Any way you could post a picture?

 

[Darrell Cunningham]

She doesn't scratch at it at all just looks like it may bother her . Eats fine growing well . She was the only one Cermani hatched out of 5 eggs I had she hatched with some butler bobwhite quail I had incubating at the same time they actually followed her arround like she was the mama lol. Now amazingly they are almost big as she . I keep them together in a roomy cage and built . Had some more baby chicks hatch out about 2 weeks old again only one Cermani hatched so she has a Lil bro or sister but haven't been introduced yet lol. Any way she's happy I guess I just hate seeing her eye like this . I feel helpless .

 

[microchick]

Definitely some crusties there so I'd wager that there is some sort of inflammation in the eye.

I'd rinse with some normal saline or warm water compress and treat with bacitracin antibiotic ointment. Just put a dab on your finger and rub it over her eye. She will close her eye, just smear it on her closed eye where the eyelids meet. Some will get into her eye.

Strange looking iris. Any chance she got pecked by another chick?

I have several birds with ocular Mareks and are blind in one eye due to the herpes infection. They get along well, see well out of one eye. They will run into things on their blind side and are more 'skittish' than their normal visioned flock mates but otherwise act normal and hang around with the rest of the flock. One rooster is quite the lady's man and the hens love him.

If she isn't scratching at the other eye or keeping it closed in bright light I'd venture that she isn't too uncomfortable with it. There are several different eye ointments available at TS or Orscheln's for 'animal' eye infections. If you have Bacitracin or even triple antibiotic first aide ointment on hand, it will do for the time being until you can get something else on board.

 

[Darrell Cunningham]

Definitely some crusties there so I'd wager that there is some sort of inflammation in the eye.

I'd rinse with some normal saline or warm water compress and treat with bacitracin antibiotic ointment. Just put a dab on your finger and rub it over her eye. She will close her eye, just smear it on her closed eye where the eyelids meet. Some will get into her eye.

Strange looking iris. Any chance she got pecked by another chick?

I have several birds with ocular Mareks and are blind in one eye due to the herpes infection. They get along well, see well out of one eye. They will run into things on their blind side and are more 'skittish' than their normal visioned flock mates but otherwise act normal and hang around with the rest of the flock. One rooster is quite the lady's man and the hens love him.

If she isn't scratching at the other eye or keeping it closed in bright light I'd venture that she isn't too uncomfortable with it. There are several different eye ointments available at TS or Orscheln's for 'animal' eye infections. If you have Bacitracin or even triple antibiotic first aide ointment on hand, it will do for the time being until you can get something else on board.

Ok thank you I she hatched out about a day after a few of the butler quail . I'm thinking she may have gotten pecked or stepped on by one of them while trying to get out of shell . I picked her up a day later after hatch and her eye was already closed . Opened after a week still a white spot maybe a cataract. But she's happy and I'm going to get the Bactrin . Thanks !

 

[microchick]

Yes, the bacitracin will sooth the eye if it is irritated. Warm moist packs to clean the eye before you put any ointment in it. Poor little sweety. She's lucky to have an observant chicken mom to help her out. You can tell if she has any vision at all in her eye by offering her favorite treat on the flat of your palm and watching how she pecks at it. My rooster that is blind in his left eye will tilt his head to the right and peck at the treat. He may take a couple of pecks to hit the mark but he gets er done. It's amazing how well they adapt.

 

[Darrell Cunningham]

Yes, the bacitracin will sooth the eye if it is irritated. Warm moist packs to clean the eye before you put any ointment in it. Poor little sweety. She's lucky to have an observant chicken mom to help her out. You can tell if she has any vision at all in her eye by offering her favorite treat on the flat of your palm and watching how she pecks at it. My rooster that is blind in his left eye will tilt his head to the right and peck at the treat. He may take a couple of pecks to hit the mark but he gets er done. It's amazing how well they adapt.

Ok thanks will do my baby gonna be alright !