my chicken has swollen eye with bubbling liquid

[john marsh]

Is there any treatment for chicks eye swelling without medicine

 

[john marsh]

The bully eye is a sign of conjunctivitis which is comony associated with Infectious Bronchitis(IB) or Infectious Laryngotracheitis(ILT). Your best bet would be to havea necropsy done on your sickest bird, you will not get it back since it will be killed to perform the necropsy.


But immediately get them on an antibiotic like Terramycin, it is specifically formulated to treat respiratort infections. mix it 4 teasponns to 1 gallon of water, keep them cooped up with no other water source and darkness seems to help. keep them on the antibiotic for 10 days and off for 2 weeks, if it comes back retreat,


In the meantime it is best to vaccinate your entire flox except the sick birds with LT-IVAX and an IB vaccine. Do not vaccinate with both the same day, do one then wait about a week and do the other.


Good Luck,


mike

 

[john marsh]

The eye and conjunctiva are infected. That is not in dispute. Perhaps there is a respiratory infection as well. Before lab work, begin treating with antibiosis empirically now.

For the record, never ever ever put regular household hydrogen peroxide (3%) in any animal's eye. It will burn off all corneal epithelium, down to bowman's layer, and leave it susceptible to the worst opportunistic microbes available. Then you can wind up with a corneal ulcer and blindness. True for humans too.

For now, and speaking only for the eye, apply polysporin, neosporin, erythromycin or bacitracin antibiotic ointment to the affected eye 3 times a day. This can be over-the-counter ointment. It will say not for use in eyes. Use it anyway. Trust me...I'm an eye doc, you can use it.


Brian

Is there any treatment for chicks eye swelling without any medicine ??? Please tell me
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[Wyorp Rock]

Is there any treatment for chicks eye swelling without any medicine ??? Please tell me
Urgent

Hi

Welcome To BYC

A little more information please.
Can you post some photos?
How old is the chick?
Do you know the cause of the eye swelling - respiratory illness, pecking wound/injury, poor ventilation/ammonia buildup or having debris in the eye?
Does the chick have any other symptoms - coughing, sneezing, mucous, lethargy, not eating/drinking, etc.?

Swelling in the eye can be caused by many things. You can try flushing they eye with saline or sterile water, then apply some Vetericyn eye gel or Terramycin eye ointment.

Offer some poultry vitamins and see that it is eating well.

 

[john marsh]

Hi Welcome To BYC

A little more information please.
Can you post some photos?
How old is the chick?
Do you know the cause of the eye swelling - respiratory illness, pecking wound/injury, poor ventilation/ammonia buildup or having debris in the eye?
Does the chick have any other symptoms - coughing, sneezing, mucous, lethargy, not eating/drinking, etc.?

Swelling in the eye can be caused by many things.  You can try flushing they eye with saline or sterile water, then apply some Vetericyn eye gel or Terramycin eye ointment.

Offer some poultry vitamins and see that it is eating well.

Ok thanks brother for your attention but my chick is dead. I will keep asking you some question
Thanks

 

[Wyorp Rock]

Quote:
I'm sorry for your loss.

 

[robmurr5]

You can get the terramycin in an ointment form at some feed stores with the other antibiotics. wish I would have bought it the other day when I saw it. It might actually be a better form of the tetracyclene than the powder form. I have never used Tylan personally so I don't recommend it for that reason only. I would try it if I could find it.

I have dealt with ILT and IB and it is not a death sentence per se. there is some mortality with ILT and IB. If you treat with antibiotics and vaccinate as I have discribe above you can get it under control and keep it under control.

mike

P.S.
there is not a blood test that can detect ILT or IB, a necropsy is the only way to definitely diagnose.

Hi Mike, I was wondering if the chickens can be VX when they are still sick. Also, is there an OTC that will treat respiratory infections? ty

 

[M3Reese]

I have roughly 35 pullets that I introduced to my established 17 chicken flock this year. Now the pullets are slowly developing droopy lids, bubbly discharge from one or both eyes, lethargy, and runny noses. None of the liquid is purulent ( green or yellow and milky colored) and some of them do have small wounds near their eyes. I can't afford to have our local vet test them all but also don't want to put them all down! I noticed that my established flock has developed any of these issues. Suggestions? I really only have one coop so quarantining the 7 or so with the eye issue is not going to be easy.

 

[casportpony]

I have roughly 35 pullets that I introduced to my established 17 chicken flock this year. Now the pullets are slowly developing droopy lids, bubbly discharge from one or both eyes, lethargy, and runny noses. None of the liquid is purulent ( green or yellow and milky colored) and some of them do have small wounds near their eyes. I can't afford to have our local vet test them all but also don't want to put them all down! I noticed that my established flock has developed any of these issues. Suggestions? I really only have one coop so quarantining the 7 or so with the eye issue is not going to be easy.

Welcome to BYC! How are they now? You could try Denagard, Tylan, a tetracyline if you could find it.

 

[M3Reese]

Welcome to BYC! How are they now? You could try Denagard, Tylan, a tetracyline if you could find it.

Well, because that law got passed earlier this year that you can't buy antibiotics without a vet license, I took a few to the vet. He said it was PROBABLY coryza. Gave them some antibiotic powder for the water. I'm a little confused since antibiotics don't help with viruses, which Coryza supposedly is (per vet). Ah well, they've started to recover anyway.