Eyes crusted shut, swollen face...pls help me

[Guinea Goonie]

Thank you soooo very much Speckled Hen. I too have researched this particular disease and for the benifit fo the others on this thread, here is the link i came to one evening:

http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/PS034

Looks like you and I are thinking along the same lines here.

You have been an inspiration to me. I stopped using antibiotics in a willy nilly way and i even went so far as to talk with the local vet who does avian speceis. We take our large parrots to him and one day I memtioned Tylosin and Baytril. I got the tongue thrashing of my life in one professional to another. In the end I came to the light.

Thank you for all your time and effort in helping those of us who are unlucky enough to have this in our flocks.

BTW LauraD, Your bird looks particulary poor. Did you just put medication on the bird or is this wetness from the bird itself ? I am going to "subscrib" to this thread. You should do the same. You will get an email regarding this, with this threads URL.

What is really scary about all of this is; I know for a fact that somewhere in someones elses flock this is happening and alot of people around here will not think twice about selling thier birds to others just to get rid of them. I am sure this is what happend to me. I got a bird that was a carrier and even after isolating it for 7 days, I got the gift that keeps on giving.

 

[speckledhen]

The crux of the problem is that people do not know that chickens don't just get head colds. They do not know that a recovered bird is probably a carrier, so they sell off that bird for whatever reason, and decimate someone else's flock. Sure, there are those evil people who knowingly sell an ill bird to someone, but most of the time, it's just ignorance of the facts.

Remember that avian diseases are different than mammalian diseases. And always assume the worst when a bird gets sick, isolate it in a different airspace immediately and observe it, as you research the symptoms. If it seems to be one of the carrier diseases, cull. Harsh? Not when you see the devastation in a flock that has an unwitting owner put in a carrier/sick bird. You may or may not lose the rest of the birds that came in contact with the sick one, but if you don't isolate it immediately, all others will be exposed for sure.

 

[cajunlizz]

I had 4 week old chicks that looked just like the pictures you posted . IT WAS CAUSED from being pecked in the eyes so much . I watch the other chicks doing the pecking, I separated the ones in this condition and added antibotics to their drinking water , had to physically open their lil eyes and put eyes drops and they all better now .

NEXT THING , I took them out of the cage and put them in their own lil coop and run and oh my GOD , they doubled in size . NOT good to keep them in closed in areas for to long . Set them free ASAP . My last bunch of chicks that hatched Aug. 25th. were taken out of brooder at 5 weeks old and they are NOW HUGE and very healthy

THEY PECK EACH OTHER when enclosed in quarters . they get bored and nothing better to do .