Help Pullet with eye wound?

[Ari_andcheepers]

The other day the pullet seemed to have a little bump on the corner of her beak today her eye is swollen shut and is leaky did she get pecked or is it something more serious?

 

[Ari_andcheepers]

She doesn’t seem to have any breathing problems

 

[oldhenlikesdogs]

Where are you located? Looks like fowl pox to me. Do you currently have mosquitoes out?

 

[Eggcessive]

Does she have any scabs or bumbs on the other side of her face, comb or wattles? I would clean her eye with saline or water, and dry it. Then put a dab of plain Neosporin ointment into her eye twice a day. Here is a good article to read if you think that she has fowl pox:
https://the-chicken-chick.com/fowl-pox-prevention-treatmen/

 

[Ari_andcheepers]

Thank you she seems to have fowl pox

 

[Eggcessive]

It is common in warm weather when mosquitoes are active. Fowl pox lasts about 3 weeks. The dry form is usually not too serious unless the whole face is covered with scabs. The wet form is more dangerous, and causes yellow gunk inside the beak and throat, and can be found in the esophagus or trachea on autopsy. Antibiotics will do nothing for pox, since it it s avirus, but secondary bacterial infections in the eyes when scabs near eyes may become infected, may be treated with plain Neosporin or Triple Antibiotic Ointment.