Funky Bubbly Eyes.. HELP! (GROSS PICS!) NEW UPDATES!

[josh_bigler]

vasoline would work great, i used neasporin and put it on like once every 3-4 hours, and it made it really moist after about 12 hours if that, but i waited 24 because i too wanted to make sure it wouldnt hurt the chicken, and i would not give him anymore antiobotics, good luck! and yes a little pain will be caused by opening the eye, but the chicken will be thankfull later on after it can see out of his eye,

 

[KellyGwen]

Ok great! I have generic neosporin (that walmart triple a-b stuff), I'll use that today!! Oh, I hope this will work... He is turning out to be a pretty little bird otherwise - I would love it if he had 2 eyes!! (haha).. I've started calling him Cye (for cyclops) - hopefully I'll have to change his name!!

Thanks again - you've been great!

I'll let you know what happens!

And yeah... you need to post more

 

[M@M@2four]

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[KellyGwen]

The Lakenvelder is looking MUCH better! The others who also had the eye "thing" got better and have gone back to the flock.

But anyway... The scab did come off, by itself. I was trying to soften it up with triple antibiotic so I could pick it off but it never got soft enough, then the other day I went in to give him him medication and there was his little swollen lid - SCABLESS! It fell off over night! His eye is VERY red and puffy but it looks like he still has an eye under there.. and he is blinking it! The "funk" had spread down to his beak and into his mouth... He had this yellow shmutz inside his mouth that I was able to wipe off and pick out with my finger

. He also had a sore on the top of his beak that was all scabbed over too. The scab for that one also fell off and there is a little crater in his beak now...

I have a feeling that he's going to be staying in his doggie crate condo for a while. On the up-side he's a Lakenvelder, who I've heard can be really skittish, and he's getting really tame from all this handling!!

Here are some pictures from today... He still looks hideous, but really he looks a LOT better!!!

Before I removed the mouth schmutz...

After he was all cleaned up (before I put the eye ointment on!). I couldn't pick that scab flap over his eye off... It was too painful, so I left it alone.

How can you NOT help him? He's so sweet....

 

[PoultryPedia]

You can sometimes trim off the dead part of a stuck scab using fingernail clippers (but not fingernail scissors because the sharp ends could end up accidentally poking them). The risk you run is that the bird can jerk away while you have the clippers closed to do the snip, and the bird ends up yanking off the scab before you get the clippers to snip through the dead part of the scab.
I think it's generally safest to wait for the scab to fall off itself unless it's very problematic to stay on and very easy to cut off.
p.s. He looks very sweet and dear!

 

[SpottedCrow]

He's looking soo much better!!

 

[Pine Grove]

The Lakenvelder has Wet Pox....

 

[josh_bigler]

howdy, he is looking better! kinda weird though how he's getting scabbing over his beak, is he still having sinus drainage? looks to me thats the case because of the scabbing over his beak, i would probably start him on another treatment of antiobotics because it looks to me that the infection is still there, not near as bad as what it had been, good luck and glad to hear he is doing much better!

 

[josh_bigler]

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howdy, do you have any information on wet pox? if so i would like to know where you find information on it, i've searched and searched and cannot find it with pictures, because the description isnt specific enough

 

[sammi]

here is a link to some info about Pox:

click here

you might try and google Merck Veterinary Manual..

I think if this were my bird..I'd try the sinus flush oldtimegater posted..
and check the other eye ointments posted there available at First State Vet..

he is looking better tho..