- Dec 29, 2014
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One of my hens (2 years old or so) has one eye shut. She's out and about, but mostly just sits.
We picked her off the roost last night (that's the only way you're going to get close to her), and took a look at her eye. It's tight shut, lightly crusty. Wearing nitrile, gloves, I gently pulled her lids back, and her eye is ivory. I don't see her cornea at all, so maybe I'm looking at the back of her eye, it's rotated the iris and cornea away.
She appears to be breathing ok, no wheezing. We parted her eye lids and rinsed well with Vetericyne eye wash. (TSC was out of the opththalmic gel).
I'm not sure if she's got an infection or if the queen hen gave her peck in the eye and hurt her (this girl tends to get pecked at bedtime by the boss girl).
Any thoughts?
We picked her off the roost last night (that's the only way you're going to get close to her), and took a look at her eye. It's tight shut, lightly crusty. Wearing nitrile, gloves, I gently pulled her lids back, and her eye is ivory. I don't see her cornea at all, so maybe I'm looking at the back of her eye, it's rotated the iris and cornea away.
She appears to be breathing ok, no wheezing. We parted her eye lids and rinsed well with Vetericyne eye wash. (TSC was out of the opththalmic gel).
I'm not sure if she's got an infection or if the queen hen gave her peck in the eye and hurt her (this girl tends to get pecked at bedtime by the boss girl).
Any thoughts?