Eye lid swollen shut, mucos

[psimek]

Hi, It's been raining buckets here for days. The 2 farm hens, RIRs, seemed not to know to get out of the rain. Everytime I saw them they were soaked. Yesterday one was finally in the coop. Her eyelid seemed to be swollen shut. When I checked on her later, it was open a tiny bit. Today it's swollen shut again, and she has a runny nose. I have penned her up alone in the corner of the covered porch. She did drink & eat for me. Any thoughts? Thanks

 

[psimek]

Luckily the school has 2 courtyards, so the farm birds are isolated, completely now from the rest of the flock. I put some antibiotics in their water. I figure if the one was sick, maybe the other wouldn't be far behind. As I was moving the other, she seemed to sneeze. They are eating & drinking. Any ideas?

 

[tiffanyh]

There is a link somewhere on her for symptoms of common diseases..actually it may even be a "Sticky Topic" in the emergencies section. See if that helps at all....but the AB
s seem like a good idea.

 

[dlhunicorn]

go to your feed store and ask what med they have for MG or chronic respiratory disease... use that for your entire flock... also give the bird some extra vitamin A (look in your baby vitamin section at the store for this) ...three drops for a week as vit A def usually is present with respiratory conditions...