Help with eye injury.

[thailand]

This has been an on going problem since he was hatched.....about 7 months ago! Yes, I have been getting pus out, and yesterday after i took this photo, after flushing and soaking his eye with saline solution i managed to lift off this crud from his eye. Trouble is it keeps coming back. Underneath the muck his eye is cloudy and his pupil is like a pin prick. It's hard to describe.. The pupil is raised to a point if that makes sense. His eyeball itself is,very swollen. I accept he's likely blind in this eye by now He still has feeling in it though cause he hates me touching it. I've tried several antibiotics and currently he on penicillin. I did wonder if it might be a fungus and so he's also on incontrazole

 

[casportpony]

This has been an on going problem since he was hatched.....about 7 months ago! Yes, I have been getting pus out, and yesterday after i took this photo, after flushing and soaking his eye with saline solution i managed to lift off this crud from his eye. Trouble is it keeps coming back. Underneath the muck his eye is cloudy and his pupil is like a pin prick. It's hard to describe.. The pupil is raised to a point if that makes sense. His eyeball itself is,very swollen. I accept he's likely blind in this eye by now He still has feeling in it though cause he hates me touching it. I've tried several antibiotics and currently he on penicillin. I did wonder if it might be a fungus and so he's also on incontrazole

Have you tried Baytril yet?

 

[thailand]

Yes 7 day course

 

[casportpony]

Yes 7 day course

Wow, I don't know what else you could try.

 

[casportpony]

Maybe try something for a fungal infection?

 

[thailand]

Since last night I've been putting some 100% pure virgin coconut oil both down his throat and in his eye too. As mentioned...He is on icontrazole which apparently is the strongest anti fungal med you can use right? Is there a particular antifungal eye drop or ointment i could put in his eye perhaps?

On a side note, I have a hen who has balance problems and I'm thinking that might be aspergillosis....could it be the same thing, but effecting the roosters eye?

 

[thailand]

This is his eye today. It almost seems like he has an ulcer on his eyeball?? Cleaned with saline and put terramycin in. That's food on his beak......other than this eye you wouldn't think anything was wrong with him.

The other photo shows his good eye. I'm pretty convinced this is a fungal/mold problem. He's had gunky eyes since hatching....and I haven't kept my incubator as clean as I should have

 

[thailand]

Can I give him oral anti fungal at the same time as an antibiotic, maybe Baytril? (Hes currently on Itraconazole)