Eye injury?

[RedWolfTX]

I agree with @Eggcessive . I've got one now with bumblefoot and bandage changes happen after dark so I can get her off the roost.

Been there with the bumblefoot routine.

Ok - will follow the advise of Dr. Eggcessive and Dr. Coach723, and will try the wipe and neosporin treatment. Will also check tonight for foreign object that Wyorp was asking about.

Taking the q-tip to rub her eye - how much rubbing should I try? Poor dear - it hurts like the dickens when I accidentally rub my own eyeball.

 

[coach723]

I would get the q tip moist with some of the ointment, and gently see if you can loosen it. Start at the edge, see if you can get it to lift anywhere. If it comes up, then remove what you can. It may take more than one go if it's really adhered to the eye. I would do everything and gently as you can. Then flush it well when you are finished and apply the ointment to the eye. Applying the ointment daily may help loosen it also.

 

[RedWolfTX]

Update - caught Peach (she was very indignant about being manhandled).

@Wyorp Rock, we couldn't find any foreign object - just mucus that was wiped away.

My wife did the lens wiping with the q-tip - there's definitely something covering her eye, but whatever it is won't lift off. While I pulled back her lids gently, Kat wiped the eye with the wet q-tip - nothing came off. She coated it liberally with the neosporin, and the outer lids just for good measure.

Peach was then let down on the porch and given her own small pile of mealworms. She finished it all before the other two birds saw her through the coop window, left the perch, and came running out.

 

[RedWolfTX]

Update: Picked her off the coop perch to give her they neomycin, and found the her eye appears to be swelling and pushing out of her head - it's twice the size of the other, and it's now forcing her lids open.

Tumor?

 

[Eggcessive]

Cannyou take her to a vet? The white covering the eye seems more like infection.

 

[RedWolfTX]

Took her to the vet. "Deep ulceration and infection" "Eye irreparably damaged" "Eye could rupture at any time"

Choice was $900 surgery (with additional outlay of expense antibiotics) or $150 euthanasia with cremation. I opted for the euthanasia.

Thank you @Wyorp Rock, @Eggcessive, and @coach723 for your advice.

 

[Eggcessive]

So sorry for your loss. You did the right thing for her. Thanks for the update.

 

[coach723]

I'm so sorry. I'm glad you were able to have her seen and know for sure what was going on. I'm very sorry it couldn't end better, but she isn't suffering, and that's what's important. I'm so sorry you had to make that decision, sometimes it's the kindest thing we can do. Thank you for letting us know.

 

[Wyorp Rock]

Took her to the vet. "Deep ulceration and infection" "Eye irreparably damaged" "Eye could rupture at any time"

Choice was $900 surgery (with additional outlay of expense antibiotics) or $150 euthanasia with cremation. I opted for the euthanasia.

Thank you @Wyorp Rock, @Eggcessive, and @coach723 for your advice.

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