Eye Surgery

[Kiki]

@Eggcessive @TwoCrows

 

[TwoCrows]

Holy Crow....

I love a successful surgery story! You saved this bird's life, just FABULOUS!!!

@Texas Kiki thank you for tagging me!

 

[Wickedchicken6]

@BantyChooks
@Wickedchicken6 @Tesumph

Thanks for the tag @Texas Kiki!
That's very much like the eye removal on our cow!

 

[Wickedchicken6]

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.
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We isolated her and administered antibiotics but the swelling increased. The eye was clearly not healing.
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In January we decided to remove the eye or risk losing her.
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Our vet put her in a tank to put her to sleep.
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Then proceded to remove the eye by deadening the area around the eye.
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Nurse Candy, my wife, kept track of the heartbeat.
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Then the eyelid was trimmed back and the eye removed.
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The bleeding was stopped and eye closed by securing the eyelid together.
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Awake, mostly, and ready to go home.
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We inspected the removed eye and found no sign of infection.
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She got to convalesce in the living room, against my will.
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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.
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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.

May I ask when they stitched the eye, did they inject an antibiotic in the cavity? That's about the only difference I notice between your hen and the eye removal on our cow. Our cow had a progressive case of squamous cell carcinoma. (cancer eye) It's quite an interesting surgery to watch!

If the eye didn't present with any visible infection, was there any suggestion as to the reason the eye was bulging?

 

[KsKingBee]

May I ask when they stitched the eye, did they inject an antibiotic in the cavity? That's about the only difference I notice between your hen and the eye removal on our cow. Our cow had a progressive case of squamous cell carcinoma. (cancer eye) It's quite an interesting surgery to watch!

If the eye didn't present with any visible infection, was there any suggestion as to the reason the eye was bulging?

She was working pretty fast, I saw the clotting agent, a powder, being applied and she gave her a few shots, I forget which shots were given. The only negative is that when sewing she didn't match up the trimmed eyelids very well and that is why they didn't grow together very well.

 

[Conan]

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.
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We isolated her and administered antibiotics but the swelling increased. The eye was clearly not healing.
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In January we decided to remove the eye or risk losing her.
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Our vet put her in a tank to put her to sleep.
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Then proceded to remove the eye by deadening the area around the eye.
View attachment 1683027

Nurse Candy, my wife, kept track of the heartbeat.
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Then the eyelid was trimmed back and the eye removed.
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The bleeding was stopped and eye closed by securing the eyelid together.
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Awake, mostly, and ready to go home.
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We inspected the removed eye and found no sign of infection.
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She got to convalesce in the living room, against my will.
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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.
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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.

Wow! This is neat. Thanks for sharing!

 

[Wickedchicken6]

She was working pretty fast, I saw the clotting agent, a powder, being applied and she gave her a few shots, I forget which shots were given. The only negative is that when sewing she didn't match up the trimmed eyelids very well and that is why they didn't grow together very well.

That's interesting! With the cow, they didn't use a clotting powder I don't believe. But we were to watch that the eye leaked but didn't develop an infection. It didn't.

I hope the staples work well and her eye heals. She's a lovely bird!

 

[KsKingBee]

That's interesting! With the cow, they didn't use a clotting powder I don't believe. But we were to watch that the eye leaked but didn't develop an infection. It didn't.

I hope the staples work well and her eye heals. She's a lovely bird!

Thank you. There was no leaking at all with this eye and no infection either. I think the vet did a great job as always.

 

[Eggcessive]

Thanks for tagging me @Texas Kiki. That is a great story, and good pictures. I noted Dr. K Exotic Pet Vet just had a week long marathon on TV, and they did a similar surgery for the same reason on an animal, I think maybe a rabbit. I am so addicted to TV vet shows—what a nerd...

 

[casportpony]

@KsKingBee , how is this hen dong?