horrific swollen eye, eww!

[SundownWaterfowl]

Does she smell? Corzya has a nasty smell to it, I guess like a rotten smell.

You said other birds have pox. Open up her mouth, do you see any lesions in her mouth? Maybe the pox turned into wet pox.

 

[punkyo]

I haven't noticed a smell, which is what had given me hope when they first got sick. I had heard that coryza smells like death, and I haven't noticed that. But I am new to chickens, so maybe what I think of as just chickeny is actually something worse?

 

[Pickaduck]

Yikes!! That looks so bad!! I'd say you'd need to get that infection out because it won't heal up otherwise.. though with it being that bad, I really just don't know..

Any updates? I hope things are better!

 

[tmasker]

My bantam Frizzle came down with the same thing. She is 14 oz. A post suggested 1/4 mL Tylan 50 injected under the skin on the breast. She is doing much better. I take her out and clean the eyes with a clean Q-tip and apply Vetermycin as well as antibotics in the water. With all that, I feed her plain yogurt. I put a dish of water in front of her and dip her beak in the water until she drinks to make sure she stays hydrated. It is tough to see. I purchased her (Coffee) and her sister (Mocha) at a Farmer's Market two weeks ago. It has been a hard road. I can't seem to find out a good way to put them down. They are quarenteed to our back porch which is an acre away from the rest of the flock in a screened room to keep the mosquitos from transmitted the infection. I can't seem to get a good answer of what it is from the local vet or local UF agricultural extention agent (County Fair is going on and they are impossible to reach!). I have heard it could be Wet Pox or Coryza. I can only be sure if she passes and we have her tested. Tough times! Coffee is doing much better. I just don't know what to do with them. I won't be putting them with the rest of the girls..... Best of luck to you!

This is a photo of her 3 days after I brought her home. Don't have a current photo to share right now.

 

[chickchicks]

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that seems to be a good website of informatin , ive not seen anything to give such advice straight forward, ive saved it for future reference ( hope though i never have to use it !)

 

[Tracy the chick]

My heart goes out to you! Ive just got back from the vets with my lovely 16 week old exchequer with exactly the same eye infection... My whole flock have just been diagnosed with "Coryza"

the one with the swollen eye is in the house, i bath her eye every couple of hours with warm salty water and up antibiotic drops on, ive given her baby asprin to bring her temp down and shes on a 3 week course of baytril, the reason its 3 weeks is coryza is such a nasty infection and airborne the vet is making sure we control the desease.. Ive also been told off the vet today that Coryza can be treated as she knows someone with a large flock that had it and are all ok now! So thats good to know, i was worried i would have to cull them all but while i know i can at least try and treat them im given them a chance. Goid luck to you and i hope its not the dreaded coryza! You can ask me anything you want and i will try and help the best i can

 

[punkyo]

Thanks so much to everyone. The sickest bird died. Since it was sounding more and more like coryza and we don't want to risk the rest of the flock, we put the other two down. We are new to chickens so it was pretty awful to have to face this right off the bat, but the poor birdies were so sick we didn't feel like we had a choice.

The remaining six are still looking perfectly healthy, so I am keeping my fingers crossed that we are through with this!

 

[Mama duck 8]

That is the worst swollen eye ive ever seen in my whole chicken life.. That chicken has to be put down or given medications.

 

[hmlongino]

We had chickens that started getting swollen eyes... turned out that we had bought pullets with MG. It seems to be rampant around here. Yes, you can treat with antibiotics, but a lot of these respiratory diseases are incurable. They can be controlled with antibiotics BUT they are still carriers... and if you ever sell any chickens they will infect other flocks. It even has a possibility to pass to the chicks, even when hatched in an incubator and kept separate. Sadly, we had to become MG experts.

We culled our flock and everyone possibly exposed, disinfected everything and are starting completely over. Not fun, but, in my opinion, better than keeping chickens that would be MG positive for life.

If the others don't show signs and you get more chickens later, they may get it just from the others being asymptomatic carriers. Believe me... I know... it sucks!!

 

[tmasker]

What is the best way to put down a sick chicken???