Eye Pecking

JHek

In the Brooder
5 Years
Mar 23, 2014
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I seem to have an odd bunch of chickens at the moment. I noticed a couple of days ago that one of my young hens had a sore near her eye and figured she had a peck to the eye, it was all healed over and not swollen at all but I've just noticed today that one of my silkies now also has a peck to the eye and side of the head and his/her eye is swollen.
I'm not sure who is doing but have my suspicions (if anyone has seen my other posts I may have three different roos on my hands and two have been bullying my other breeds recently).
Just looking for advice on if this is normal, do I wait it out and keep an eye on them or should I find the perpetrator and separate them?
I have a GLW, SLW and PBR all possible males, a PBR, GLW and BLW all hens (these 6 are 9-11 weeks old) and then 3x white silkies and a partridge silkie unsure of sex as they range from 3-7 weeks.
 
Do you have mosquitoes this time of year? I would suspect dry fowl pox before eye pecking. Just to make sure look up all the pictures on dry fowl pox and see if they match what you are looking at, if you can post a pic of the eye in question, and if you ruled out fowl pox then start looking for lice/mites and get back to us for further direction and help solving the problem.
 
Thank you so much for the info, mozzies are disappearing at the moment so I don't think that's it but I'll look up the pox and post photos tomorrow morning.
 
Here's a pic of the two that had/have sore eyes
Bad eye
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Good eye
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Other chicken with eye sore
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Plus this guy who is sneezing and has bad looking legs with a sore
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I think a few are sneezing and I'm not sure what to do, it seems like nothing is going right with these guys and I don't know what to do about it.
 

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