Poultrylady2022
Chirping
- Mar 13, 2022
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I apologize for the title, I didn’t really know how to explain this.
I have a hen thats swollen on the right side of her face. It has her eye basically swelled shut. I originally thought it was an eye problem so I had been flushing her eye and putting terramycin on it. She seemed to be doing better so I put her with the other chickens.
Then one day I noticed they had attacked that eye and it was bloody so I brought her inside.
The next day I noticed she had a piece of corn stuck to the inside of her beak so I got it off and decided to look inside her mouth. My hens eat crumbles and when I looked in her mouth there was like dried food all over the roof of her mouth. It was almost completely covering her throat. I got that out and it made the roof of her mouth bleed but it also caused infection to come out of her left eye and out of the right side of her nose. I’ve since put her on an antibiotic and I’ve been watching her for several days now.
I’ve noticed that she has like thick mucus coming from the roof of her mouth. Or it may be infection, but it doesn’t really look like infection.
She has definitely perked up since I started the antibiotic but the swelling in her face hasn’t really gone down. Would anyone know what this is? Or have any better ideas of how to treat it?
She does her best to eat and drink and since I’ve started the antibiotic she acts more like a chicken than she did before. Before she would just stay perched up but now she uses her feet to dig and she’s been clicking. What else can I do? I’ll get pictures of her face but it’s really hard to keep her mouth open long enough for a picture so I don’t know if I’ll be able to do that. Thanks for any advice!
I have a hen thats swollen on the right side of her face. It has her eye basically swelled shut. I originally thought it was an eye problem so I had been flushing her eye and putting terramycin on it. She seemed to be doing better so I put her with the other chickens.
Then one day I noticed they had attacked that eye and it was bloody so I brought her inside.
The next day I noticed she had a piece of corn stuck to the inside of her beak so I got it off and decided to look inside her mouth. My hens eat crumbles and when I looked in her mouth there was like dried food all over the roof of her mouth. It was almost completely covering her throat. I got that out and it made the roof of her mouth bleed but it also caused infection to come out of her left eye and out of the right side of her nose. I’ve since put her on an antibiotic and I’ve been watching her for several days now.
I’ve noticed that she has like thick mucus coming from the roof of her mouth. Or it may be infection, but it doesn’t really look like infection.
She has definitely perked up since I started the antibiotic but the swelling in her face hasn’t really gone down. Would anyone know what this is? Or have any better ideas of how to treat it?
She does her best to eat and drink and since I’ve started the antibiotic she acts more like a chicken than she did before. Before she would just stay perched up but now she uses her feet to dig and she’s been clicking. What else can I do? I’ll get pictures of her face but it’s really hard to keep her mouth open long enough for a picture so I don’t know if I’ll be able to do that. Thanks for any advice!