Injured eye?

[azygous]

The blackened tissue is either dried blood or necrotic tissue. The pus needs to be removed or bacteria will continue to grow and multiply under it. Your choices are cleaning the eye out yourself, have a vet do it, or euthanize the chicken.

The eye ball is securely fastened by ligaments and nerve fibers. You will not pop the eye out. Watch the video again. Exert pressure laterally and that will move the pus toward the edge of the eye so you can lift it out.

Infectious coryza is a form of upper respiratory disease caused by the bacterium Haemophilus paragallinarum.

Often just the topical antibiotic is adequate to treat it, but you can also add an oral antibiotic for more punch. The fish antibiotics are what many of us use for chickens. No prescription is required.

I do not have a human helper when I need to treat a chicken. So I have old bath towels I keep handy to wrap the chicken securely to immobilize wings and feet. This also helps calm the chicken so they're less likely to move.

 

[Jennifromtheblock]

The blackened tissue is either dried blood or necrotic tissue. The pus needs to be removed or bacteria will continue to grow and multiply under it. Your choices are cleaning the eye out yourself, have a vet do it, or euthanize the chicken.

The eye ball is securely fastened by ligaments and nerve fibers. You will not pop the eye out. Watch the video again. Exert pressure laterally and that will move the pus toward the edge of the eye so you can lift it out.

Infectious coryza is a form of upper respiratory disease caused by the bacterium Haemophilus paragallinarum.

Often just the topical antibiotic is adequate to treat it, but you can also add an oral antibiotic for more punch. The fish antibiotics are what many of us use for chickens. No prescription is required.

I do not have a human helper when I need to treat a chicken. So I have old bath towels I keep handy to wrap the chicken securely to immobilize wings and feet. This also helps calm the chicken so they're less likely to move.

Perfect! Thank you all for the information. Will be attempting the mucus removal as soon as we get home from work and I’ll pick up some antibiotics in the meantime. Does anyone have a dosage amount to use?

 

[azygous]

The topical antibiotic is just a dab in each eye twice a day. If you get amoxicillin (fish mox or aqua-mox) it's 250mg once a day for ten days. You may do both.

 

[SmiYa0126]

How is she doing? @Jennifromtheblock

 

[Jennifromtheblock]

How is she doing? @Jennifromtheblock

She looks to be doing slightly better. She’s only been in the antibiotics for 2 days and ill continuing to put the Terramycin on her eye. I am not able to get anything to pop out of it however. I still feel like it’s her eye but I’ve tried to apply slight pressure to see if anything would pop out (pus/mucus) but nothing happened.

 

[SmiYa0126]

She looks to be doing slightly better. She’s only been in the antibiotics for 2 days and ill continuing to put the Terramycin on her eye. I am not able to get anything to pop out of it however. I still feel like it’s her eye but I’ve tried to apply slight pressure to see if anything would pop out (pus/mucus) but nothing happened.

@Jennifromtheblock Try to do a tea bag compress on her eye. Brew a chamomile tea bag, let it come to just slightly warm then let it sit on her eye for as long as she tolerates it. Then try to see if you can pop the pus out.

Try to put pressure closer to her beak rather than the back of her eye where the scab is. Like azygous said, you can't pop her eye out.

Offer treats afterwards and cuddles if she tolerates it.

 

[Jennifromtheblock]

@Jennifromtheblock Try to do a tea bag compress on her eye. Brew a chamomile tea bag, let it come to just slightly warm then let it sit on her eye for as long as she tolerates it. Then try to see if you can pop the pus out.

Try to put pressure closer to her beak rather than the back of her eye where the scab is. Like azygous said, you can't pop her eye out.

Offer treats afterwards and cuddles if she tolerates it.

I will give it another go. Just the way it looks is that it is her eye already that’s popped out so it makes me second guess popping it lol

 

[Jennifromtheblock]

Also, if this is in fact coryza, from an article I was just reading, the entire flock is infected now? What about introducing new chicks?

 

[Jennifromtheblock]

Update: I attempted to try to pop anything out and was able to get some slight liquid pus/mucus out from near the beak. The rest of it seems pretty stuck on. I didn’t want to pull to hard since occasionally she made a little noise as if I was hurting her. I am attaching photos of after the draining. Are we sure the black portion that’s protruded is not her eye?

 

[picklestheduck]

Update: I attempted to try to pop anything out and was able to get some slight liquid pus/mucus out from near the beak. The rest of it seems pretty stuck on. I didn’t want to pull to hard since occasionally she made a little noise as if I was hurting her. I am attaching photos of after the draining. Are we sure the black portion that’s protruded is not her eye?

Oh dear that doesn’t look pretty! Sorry I have like no experience with eye issues but hopefully someone else can give you some more advice soon