help my roosters eye is swollen

[smoke202]

my rooster eye is swollen what can I put on his eye to help him

 

[Eggcessive]

Most eye swelling is from a respiratory disease which causes sinus swelling and conjunctivitis. MG/CRD or coryza are fairly common respiratory diseases, and there are others. Most are contagious, chronic, and make carriers of the flock. Culling would be the best way to control this, but if you chose to treat with antibiotics, please close your flock to any new birds or selling birds or hatching eggs. Testing one of your sick birds would be wise to find out what you have. Contacting your state vet to ask what diseases are common in your area, and to get testing done would be good. Here are some links for you to read: http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/ps044 and for yourstate vet:
http://www.aphis.usda.gov/animal_health/animal_dis_spec/poultry/participants.shtml

 

[smoke202]

Thank you for the response. I have been giving him tylan oral. I also have been washing his eye out. Been giving him vetrx. It's just not clearing up. I was looking for some other suggestions. Now his eye had bubbles in the side.

 

[Eggcessive]

From what I have read, bubbles and foam in the eye are fairly common with MG. Tylan is very good for respiratory disease, but make sure he is drinking the medication. Put some of the liquid in his food. Tylan 50 injection is available for shots if he isn't drinking enough.

 

[smoke202]

Yes he's eating an drinking Fine. His crawl is packed. It's just not healing on his eye. I goggle for answers I read about putting olive oil on his eye. Do you have any suggestions? I've been treating him over 3 weeks. I had other chickens with this problem. After 7 days they healed up. Just don't understand why I can't get him better.

 

[Eggcessive]

That is the problem with a chronic disease, symptoms keep coming back, and the disease is never cured. Don't use olive oil in his eye--saline to wash it out, or Terramycin or Neosporin ointment would be better. I'm sure you don't want to hear this, but you should probably send this rooster to your state vet to be culled, and have a necropsy done to find out for sure what he has. Vaccinations can be given to new chickens. Here is a link for your state vet: http://www.aphis.usda.gov/animal_health/animal_dis_spec/poultry/participants.shtml