Foamy eye.

[DreamSoulpatch]

I have a call duck with a foamy eye and watery discharge. I don't know her age, just that she's fully grown.

She was fine last night when I checked on her. When I got home, I went to check on her and found her beneath her Duck house (dog house). Then when she ran by me, I saw her eye was foamy.

Could the male duck I have with her caused this? The back of her neck is now completely fatherless and bleeding a little.

When we found her we immediately washed it out gently with warm water mixed with Johnson's tear free baby wash. Once we washed it out we put a little bit of Vetericyn. Then we put her in a cage with towels in a quiet room.

What should we do next? Can't afford to take her to the vet.

-Thanks and God bless.

 

[hiddenflock]

Foamy eyes can be because of an eye injury, or just because something got stuck in its eye when it was snorfelling (sifting through the dirt). The other thing that might cause a foamy eye is bronchitis, which, luckily, isn't really life threatening if you treat it right, and, in our case, didn't require veterinary treatment. If the foamy eye persists, some apple cider vinegar can do good at getting rid of the symptoms that hurt the chicken, however, the bird may remain a carrier...like the way if you get mono, you're a "carrier"... another option is that your duck might be getting a little too much attention from the drake...so yes, that is a good possibility.

 

[Eggcessive]

Foamy eyes can sometimes be a symptom of mycoplasma gallisepticum (MG or CRD.) It could also be from another problem such as high ammonia levels in the coop, or from a peck or other eye trauma or infection. Here are a couple of links to read about diseases and about a similar case:
http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/ps044
https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/691108/pekin-duck-has-runny-wet-foamy-eyes-sinus-infection

 

[DreamSoulpatch]

Now she has a fever and is drinking a lot, but not eating. What do I do?

 

[Eggcessive]

I don't know a lot about ducks, but Tylan 50 or Tylan 200 injections can be used to treat mycoplasma and other respiratory infections in chickens. This is better than giveing Duramycin10 or Gallimycin in the water if she is slowing down on eating and drinking. Terramycin or Neosporin ointment may be applied to the eye after cleaning it out with saline. Of course, most respiratory infections are contagious to other poultry and will make carriers of a flock.