Help me I have a 4 week old chick with a saw eye :(

[Kimmys coop]

All my chicks seems fine I’ve been doing everything right that I know of but when I do my normal stare and take pictures of the chickens for about an hour in the morning routine lol I noticed one of them was making more noise than normal and was itching her eye a bit I looked and it seemed red maybe a bit bloody on the edges?

So I got her out to look she’s one that doesn’t like being held yet so she escaped and I spent 5 minutes running around the garden catching her again so I can have a good look at her eye.

I tuck a few pictures can you please help me is it anything serious? I have done some googling and some people have been washing eyes with salt water and things would this help?

Also I think some other chickens where trying to peek at her eye yesterday maybe then new something was wrong?

Thanks,
KIM

 

[Kimmys coop]

How do I put my pictures up on this?

 

[Kimmys coop]

I have put 2 pictures In my profile

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[vehve]

The eye looks a bit infected. Rinse it with saline (just to be clear, as you mentioned salt water, don't try to make your own, you won't get the right 0.9% mix and it won't be pure enough, buy some saline from a pharmacy or something). There are different medicinal products that can be used, and you will surely get a recommendation on something by someone else, I just wanted to be clear on the salt water part, so that you don't go making it worse.

 

[Kimmys coop]

This might be silly but can I use my hay fever eye drops on the chickens eye?

sodium cromoglicate 2% eye drops

Ive used it as a child till now for my hayfever

 

[Kimmys coop]

This might be silly but can I use my hay fever eye drops on the chickens eye?

sodium cromoglicate 2% eye drops

 

[Kimmys coop]

The eye looks a bit infected. Rinse it with saline (just to be clear, as you mentioned salt water, don't try to make your own, you won't get the right 0.9% mix and it won't be pure enough, buy some saline from a pharmacy or something). There are different medicinal products that can be used, and you will surely get a recommendation on something by someone else, I just wanted to be clear on the salt water part, so that you don't go making it worse.

This might be silly but can I use my hay fever eye drops on the chickens eye?

sodium cromoglicate 2% eye drops

 

[vehve]

Personally I would just keep it cleaned with saline (several times a day, maybe even every two hours to begin with), as I'm not a believer in throwing broad spectrum antibiotics on every little booboo. But I'm sure if you wait a while, someone will post an answer with some suitable eye drops. The product you mention, I'm not familiar with, but I don't know if it would do you much good, it's meant to keep the reaction down when being continuously exposed to something that irritates the eye, you need to actually get rid of the bacterial infection. For this, rinsing and letting the body's own immune system do it's job often works.

 

[Kimmys coop]

Thank

Personally I would just keep it cleaned with saline (several times a day, maybe even every two hours to begin with), as I'm not a believer in throwing broad spectrum antibiotics on every little booboo. But I'm sure if you wait a while, someone will post an answer with some suitable eye drops. The product you mention, I'm not familiar with, but I don't know if it would do you much good, it's meant to keep the reaction down when being continuously exposed to something that irritates the eye, you need to actually get rid of the bacterial infection. For this, rinsing and letting the body's own immune system do it's job often works.

Its my eye drops ive used as a child for itchy eyes (hay fever) it stops the urge to itch and cleans the eye. I think Ill pop out and find some saline now I cant stand to see her itching her eye the poor thing

Thanks

 

[SunfireKat]

[COLOR=333333]This might be silly but can I use my hay fever eye drops on the chickens eye?[/COLOR]

[COLOR=333333]sodium cromoglicate 2% eye drops [/COLOR]

See if you can pick up some sterile 0.9% sodium chloride 10 ml flush syringes from a medical supply store, and use them to gently irrigate and remove any debris out of the eye of the chicken...there doesn't look to me to be any discharge from the eye, so it doesn't appear infected, but it does appear to be irritated and inflamed, perhaps from the others pecking her. You may want to isolate her if possible until she heals. Please do not use eye drops meant for a human on a chicken; you may do more damage than good. The anatomy of an avian eye is different from that of a mammal...and even between some mammals certain meds can't transfer over...for example, dogs cannot take enteric coated tablets like we can; they don't dissolve in their stomach. As a nurse, I can help with wound care and other advice, but it's always best to ask a vet when it comes to medications...