We have a yearling Peach SP hen that damaged her eye last December. We do not know how she did it but the pupil was clearly damaged and looked broken. The eye never healed and eventually started bulging looking like it was swollen and infected. She ate good and had good weight and was otherwise in good condition.
We isolated her and administered antibiotics but the swelling increased. The eye was clearly not healing.
In January we decided to remove the eye or risk losing her.
Our vet put her in a tank to put her to sleep.
Then proceded to remove the eye by deadening the area around the eye.
Nurse Candy, my wife, kept track of the heartbeat.
Then the eyelid was trimmed back and the eye removed.
The bleeding was stopped and eye closed by securing the eyelid together.
Awake, mostly, and ready to go home.
We inspected the removed eye and found no sign of infection.
She got to convalesce in the living room, against my will.
Two weeks later we removed the stitches to find that the eye did not totally grow shut so staples were applied and we are waiting a month for another checkup. She is looking good, eating well and flies up to roost.
The prognosis is good that she will live a long and happy life, although we will have to keep an eye on the eyelid closing. If it does not we will have to trim the lid and sew it again.
We isolated her and administered antibiotics but the swelling increased. The eye was clearly not healing.
In January we decided to remove the eye or risk losing her.
Our vet put her in a tank to put her to sleep.
Then proceded to remove the eye by deadening the area around the eye.
Nurse Candy, my wife, kept track of the heartbeat.
Then the eyelid was trimmed back and the eye removed.
The bleeding was stopped and eye closed by securing the eyelid together.
Awake, mostly, and ready to go home.
We inspected the removed eye and found no sign of infection.
She got to convalesce in the living room, against my will.
Two weeks later we removed the stitches to find that the eye did not totally grow shut so staples were applied and we are waiting a month for another checkup. She is looking good, eating well and flies up to roost.
The prognosis is good that she will live a long and happy life, although we will have to keep an eye on the eyelid closing. If it does not we will have to trim the lid and sew it again.
