Help! Hard white substance inside chickens eye

[Wyorp Rock]

My chickens has a ball the size of a marble in her cheek..... can I get the puss out some how? Please help

Can you start a thread about your chicken?
Include some clear photos and explain the issue.

 

[Soccerjen3]

Hi all, I have a chicken with the same issue, she had it in both eyes, we have been bathing the eyes and one eye we were able to get all of the gunk out. Unfortunately the other eye has some stuck, I dare not pull it out in case I damage something. I tried pulling very gently but is firmly in there. Any advice would be awesome, thankyou

Might be too late but the easiest way is to drain it out without touching it. Open her mouth and use VetRX on a ear cleaner. Rub it on the top part of her mouth it’s like a line in the middle. It makes their eyes water and it naturally comes out. If it’s kind of like hanging out, use a ear cleaner and rotate it gently but never poking the eye. It will attached to it and pull out without any worry of poking her actual eye.

 

[DA in AZ]

I know the post is old but wanted to post a reply in case someone else had the same issue. I have two chickens who I found, each with one eye shut and a hard pus in their eye. I flushed the eyes out with saline solution to push out the hard white stuff. I continued to flush the eyes a couple of times a day for a couple of days. It helped, now they are fine.

 

[Ladies-Eight]

I would say the vet was right.

Would hate to see my chicken in that shape with the pain.

Put her to sleep to give her a better life across the rainbow bridge.

 

[Fancyfootwork]

I just took my chicken to the vet who thought it was a tumour and had her put down, this is a great loss for me and I am really upset. Here is how she looked before she went to the vets

You cannot clearly see but she had a massive swollen eye and some watery discharge. It most of all the gap between the two eyelids was very slim and here eye looked like a golf ball on the side of her face.
Was the vet right to put her down?
Thankyou

No. Your vet should e put down. I hope be y ok Itú didn’t pay to have her killed. Reading this makes me sad. I was ignorant at one time when I was new to the chicken world. I took my old red to the vet and paid $200 to get her checked out. She died in the way home. I found out through much research and plenty experience thst the vet was way off on her diagnose and even the meds. I not saying she killed my baby, but I am saying she didn’t have a vlue of what ghe hell she was talking about. Turns out unless your vet specializes in birds, let’s say chicken, ducks, peacocks and the likes, they aren’t the solution to your chicken problems. You are your chickens best hope. Researching everything you can, buying meds from foreign lands, and learning from discussion sights is your chickens only hope. Unless you like dropping g a couple Hundreds for your vet to off your chickens for you. As of né comment I read before this, the person called it, it’s an infection in the eye, and you have to get the shit out. Tweezers work best. Putting a warm saline compress on first is very gelpful but not nessacary if you can’t. Sometimes the puss pops out, that’s usually due to a respatory infection, which you can give her vetrx which anybody can buy over counter, then there’s some that seem attached to the eyeball. Those are slit more work. I’ll admit my first time my rooster lost the eye, but he lived a great life with one eye. Now I can successfully scrape the crap out and save the eye. First time I learned what not to do. And that’s to pull it out all one time assuming it’s like the first example. Sometimes they are stuck to the eye and you can’t pop it out one time like a big pimple. I went from two chickens and a duck to now having hundreds of themZ I live in an animal refuge as care taker. We never take our birds to the vets. They are outlying day and fog trained, pigs and horses not stupid chickens. That’s the way a lot of people think when chickens are the subject. U and I know that’s not the case at all. Chickens all have the same instincts but they have there own until que personalities. More do the many people. People today are more like sheep, going with the herd not thinking for themselves. That’s why I prefer hanging with chickens more do then with most people. There still alot of great gumans out there, but chickens are better listeners! Ha peace, hope this was alittle bit helpful.

 

[seminolewind]

How would you know if it was bacterial or fungal

 

[Ladies-Eight]

No. Your vet should e put down. I hope be y ok Itú didn’t pay to have her killed. Reading this makes me sad. I was ignorant at one time when I was new to the chicken world. I took my old red to the vet and paid $200 to get her checked out. She died in the way home. I found out through much research and plenty experience thst the vet was way off on her diagnose and even the meds. I not saying she killed my baby, but I am saying she didn’t have a vlue of what ghe hell she was talking about. Turns out unless your vet specializes in birds, let’s say chicken, ducks, peacocks and the likes, they aren’t the solution to your chicken problems. You are your chickens best hope. Researching everything you can, buying meds from foreign lands, and learning from discussion sights is your chickens only hope. Unless you like dropping g a couple Hundreds for your vet to off your chickens for you. As of né comment I read before this, the person called it, it’s an infection in the eye, and you have to get the shit out. Tweezers work best. Putting a warm saline compress on first is very gelpful but not nessacary if you can’t. Sometimes the puss pops out, that’s usually due to a respatory infection, which you can give her vetrx which anybody can buy over counter, then there’s some that seem attached to the eyeball. Those are slit more work. I’ll admit my first time my rooster lost the eye, but he lived a great life with one eye. Now I can successfully scrape the crap out and save the eye. First time I learned what not to do. And that’s to pull it out all one time assuming it’s like the first example. Sometimes they are stuck to the eye and you can’t pop it out one time like a big pimple. I went from two chickens and a duck to now having hundreds of themZ I live in an animal refuge as care taker. We never take our birds to the vets. They are outlying day and fog trained, pigs and horses not stupid chickens. That’s the way a lot of people think when chickens are the subject. U and I know that’s not the case at all. Chickens all have the same instincts but they have there own until que personalities. More do the many people. People today are more like sheep, going with the herd not thinking for themselves. That’s why I prefer hanging with chickens more do then with most people. There still alot of great gumans out there, but chickens are better listeners! Ha peace, hope this was alittle bit helpful.

Well written and detailed.