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Sommano
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What does she look like?
OK If you are seeing visible pus in the eye, that needs to be removed. Even though you are giving antibiotics, chicken pus is usually a semi-hard cheesy material and has to be physically removed, it won't dry up on it's own.
A warm compress may help you get the eye open. Gently swaddling her in a towel may also help you control her better too. Do the best you can to work on getting the pus out - that may be the source of the odor. Flush well and apply your ointment. You may need to remove more pus as it comes.
As for the steel cut oats, I don't think they would make a chickens stomach explode. Food goes into the crop first, then to the "stomach" proventriculous, then to the gizzard where food is ground up (this is why chickens use grit fro processing) then of course it goes into the intestines, etc. But cooked oats may be better since she's not well and struggling. My birds aren't that big a fan of hard boiled eggs unless it's just the yolk, they prefer theirs scrambled LOL Melon and strawberries sound good. I've never given pineapple, but it won't hurt her. https://poultry.extension.org/articles/poultry-anatomy/avian-digestive-system/
This pullet has an eye infection from respiratory disease, but the process of removing pus due to infection is the same.
Thank you for the video.
It looks scary to do but I will swallow my gut and do it.
As for the oatmeal, I will wait.
Thank you!