Eye ruptured?

[Kasey]

I have a young pullet who is recovering from a respiratory infection that had watery bubbly eyes. She had been rubbing her face on her wings to clear her eyes. We were also rinsing them twice daily with saline solution. Well one eye cleared up but the other continued swelling and getting kind of nasty. The one eye a couple days ago was swollen and had a little puss coming from it when we cleaned it and it appeared that the third eyelid (the white lid that comes across from the inside of the eye) had gone completely across the eye or that the eye ha ruptured. This morning when cleaning the eye a chunk of white fleshy material wash out of the eye and now there appears to be some jelly like substance pot riding from the eye.

Any idea if I can treat this on my own? Or would it be better for her to be culled? I have some gentamicin antibiotic drops from when my cats had and eye infection I can give if necessary?

Will this heal and she recover? I'm not concerned about her only having one eye. I just don't want her to suffer needlessly.

I can take and post pics if necessary.

 

[Stiggy]

she can survive this, I have 2 half blind hens who has respitory infections. One is just blind and squinty and the others eye exploded. they each have one good eye and get on fine. Keep washing it out, if she has lots of head fluff then trim it back so it doesn't get in the eyes. if it looks really bad then oral antibiotics will be needed. antibiotic eye drops would also be good. if she is completely blind in both eyes then I would suggest culling her, but one eye and they can live fine and happily

 

[Fancychooklady]

I had to treat a friends silkie for this" as bad as it looks the eye is more than likely still intact. The puss becomes hard like cheese. Sometimes a plug forms on the eye and can be manipulated to the side, almost like removing a contact lens. You will need to continue oral antibiotics and I used Terramycin eye ointment , but the gentamicin should be fine. First irrigate then apply the the drops twice a day.

http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/ps031

 

[Kasey]

Thank you both. Right now I am cleaning it and applying drops twice a day. I'm just hoping it will help....

 

[Fancychooklady]

This nasal flush may help with the infection but you may need to physically remove the puss core.

http://www.browneggblueegg.com/Article/NasalFlush/NasalFlush.html

 

[Stiggy]

Have you checked inside her mouth on the top part of her beak? Sometimes it gets plugged up and the sinuses can't drain which puts pressure on the eye