Eye issue should I panic?

CrazyWifey

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Hello I have a couple of older chicks I have noticed eye issues with. I’m hoping it’s just dirt or dust or maybe a pecking order thing as I have a lot of money invested in these chicks and my husband worked hard to give me a silkie run with a big coop. I do keep the coop and run clean I have 2 hens and 10 chicks total in that space and adding 9 more chicks once they are old enough to go outside and a silkie mix hen with 2 chicks I let her hatch when her chicks are old enough if that helps at all. The white chick is from Hoovers hatchery I order in a group of 10 only kept the 3 satins as the others was Cornish and gave them to a friend who has 2 with eye issues she things it’s MG in the ones I gave her and she has a lot of chickens. The black one I got from a local breeder at 1 week old with 4 others. All was kept Inside til 6-7 weeks old when I moved them to the run. I have treated them today with eye gel for animals I just got from tractor. Really hoping it’s nothing serious and something that spreads through the flock! The black chick (I noticed it today) can open the eye and the other eye on both look fine and normal. I can get more pics tonight when they roost. The white chick I noticed it maybe 2 days ago. I’m going to put the gel on the eyes again tonight when they bed down.

I have added a photo of both my chickens as well as the photos she sent me of the ones I gave her from Hoovers.
 

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I'm sorry you're having issues.
Getting birds from 'local breeders' is always such a gamble.
Seperate the birds showing symptoms from the others, they need to be completely quarantined.
 
I'm sorry you're having issues.
Getting birds from 'local breeders' is always such a gamble.
Seperate the birds showing symptoms from the others, they need to be completely quarantined.
I have no way to separate them. My other run has a mom and 2 chicks. All 3 of my brooders of full with chicks and quails. I have a friend bring me medicine in the morning to treat them and doxy for the water for everyone in this run.
 

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