eye problems (help)

[Chiken Little]

I went to feed chickens today and noticed that 2 of my black giants have REALLY SWOLLEN eyes. They are about 2 months old and have been fine since we got them when they were a day old. There is a white puss that I can push out of them!! And the other one has real watery eyes. I also noticed that one of them has the right eye swollen completley shut and I lifted the eye lid and can't even see the eye ball , but the left eye don't look that bad. Is it contagious,because I dont want to lose the whole 105 bird flock should I cull the bad ones? Any suggestions would be GREAT!

 

[The Wolf Queen]

I cant help but im having a similar problem with 2 of my younger birds. One has a droopy eyelid and you can see yellow. Both have a slightly swollen eye and both hav bubbles in I guess the front corner of their eyes. Oh and its only one eye on each bird. Maybe its an eye infection or an allergy???

Someone please help us.

 

[Chiken Little]

yeh I know I just hope it cant spread!!!! TOO MANY BIRDS TO LOSE!!!

 

[The Wolf Queen]

Chicken Little wrote: yeh I know I just hope it cant spread!!!! TOO MANY BIRDS TO LOSE!!!

People are telling me to get all kinds of meds and test done, but the weird thing is that the 2 birds were in completely different enclosures and no other birds have those symptoms in either coop

. So like I said, im thinkin allergy. Chicken Little if you wanna read my thread click here https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=211485​

 

[scbirdfarm]

Hi, Chicken Little

Unfortunetly it can spread!!! We went through this problem in June. We had our Poultry Micro Bioligist come out and she told us to treat it with Tylan Soluble Powder & Gallimycin

(Erythromycin) and it worked. So you want to start treating them right away because it can cause a high mortality rate if the chickens aint treated. We put a table spoon of each per gallon of water and treat the birds for 5 Days.


Quote:

 

[Chiken Little]

thanks guys for the help!! keep it coming, I was going to post pic but of corse the camera is acting up!

 

[Chiken Little]

hey, scbird farm can I give all the flock the Erythomycin to prevent it from spreading,and at the same time cure the sick ones?????

 

[scbirdfarm]

Yes you can that will help curve the spread in your other chickens. The only thing if you have laying hens you cant eat the eggs for 10 days.

 

[Chiken Little]

no layers yet, thanks for the help!!

 

[Chiken Little]

How do I upload a pic on here of my sick ones????