Hen has foamy bubbles in her eyes!

[poultryhaven]

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Hope it works too, OH! Happy Birthday

 

[dschwalm]

Another member posted a question concerning the very swollen eye of one of their chickens; it led to a super useful discussion of the various respiratory ailments that can afflict chickens, including those that cause symptoms such as bubbly eyes. I followed it because I, like you, had two chickens with bubbly eyes (and one chicken with extremely labored, rattling breathing). The link to the thread is here:

https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=36823&p=1

It is most likely: Infectious Bronchitis, Infectious Coryza, or Infectious LT (short for a long scientific name). Although not apparently transferable to humans or other pets, these diseases are potentially very contagious to other chickens; once you know what you have, I suggest you vaccinate your healthy chickens ASAP. There is a lot of useful information in the thread, I encourage you to look at it. Especially useful, on either page 3 or 4, is a post from a chicken vet which runs through a series of potential treatments. I had already tried Terramycin, Tylosin and injectable Tylan 50 with little to no result. After reading the thread, I went to First State Vet supply (http://www.firststatevetsupply.com/store/index.php) and purchased Sulmet powder (a powerful Sulfa antibiotic added to their drinking water) and Ciloxan eye drops. I also purchased a vaccine for ILT, which is administered as an eye drop (it requires two applications; the second follows the first by 6 weeks)-I did this to hopefully protect my healthy chickens from getting sick; I am also considering vaccinating them for IC and IB (also available at First State Vet Supply). I have seen dramatic improvement in the chicken whose eyes were least bubbly; the other is still struggling but, like your chicken, all three of my little sickies are active and eating. I suggest that you check out the thread and consider contacting the people at First State to see if they have any input. I did so, and will pass on any information I get from them.

Good luck! There are a lot of useful treatments out there, so stay calm

 

[Justino]

Thank you for all the help

And thanks for the happy birthday ;P Been a crazy 17 this year LOL!

 

[Justino]

Okay one last question for this thread (I hope!!!)

So i gave her the medicated water, and she drank it all, and now is looking 100% fine and acting fine. So i think im gonna sneak her back into the coop tonight with the girls. Is this fine to do? Because i dont want for her to become stressed out being alone and in a cage for much longer

ETA put her out there

She is a happy camper once again

 

[Year of the Rooster]

Good to hear Justin

 

[Justino]

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thanks

Hopefully this will not happen again

I think it might of been with the cold temps latly, and she got a lil cold

 

[i.am.kate]

Hi,

Pleased she seems okay.

We had a hen that all of a sudden developed a very runny nose (got green goo all over me!) and extremely bubbly eyes. She seemed fine apart from that, and it turned out that she had inhaled a small bit of straw (or something) and it was stuck in her nose and that was causing the problems. I was advised to hold her up and try to look up her nose, and if I could see the object attempt to very carefully extract it. However as I could not see it I left her to it (this was the evening and she wanted to go to bed, so I put her outside with the rest) and the next day it had come out of its own accord and she was fine. No problems since.

Kate

 

[corinne elise]

Had rooster with this problem. He did get better after meds, but it took at least a week to get back to normal. Has your hen ever had this problem before? She will be a carrier for life but will not exhibit any simptoms. Good Luck!

 

[graysonbirds]

SO if she is a carrier for life . . . she stays by herself for life?