my chicken has swollen eye with bubbling liquid

[CopperBlackMaran]

Hello, we're new to this, discovered this forum when one of our chickens developed bubbling liquid and then a swollen eye. At first we panicked reading about CRD, but fortunately, acting on advice of an elderly gentleman and long time chicken expert who suggested it was just dust in the eye from an over exuberant dustbath and to bathe her eye with lukewarm water and a peice of muslin wiping away from the beak. Which we have done for 3 days, 2-3 times a day and has already improved loads. Thought this would be usefull for anyone else who like us, is new to chicken keeping, even if you have already cured your chicken, as we read somewhere else that a lady eventually killed her chicken as she was not sure what it was...I wonder how many other birds have been culled for a bit of dust...
Hope this helps someone somewhere!

 

[faerieeeiren]

I have had this problem for about a year with a very nice Bantam I have it just lingers. Recently after trying all suggested I took it off antibiotics and began just washing out its eyes which seemed to help greatly then it began having problems standing up straight so I began varying the diet to include vitamins and occassionally potassium in case washing the eye made it loose potassium which helped a little bit. While handling the Bantam that never seems to die eventually it scratched at the side of a couple of my nail beds and it got infected so I tried various things to find that iodine helped along with tea tree oil mixed with camphophenique suggesting thus that this is not a parasite and not a bacteria or virus but quite possibly a fungus as it has affected my nail beds. Medicine for Fungus can be very deadly or cause cancer but many natural products help kill fungal growths. Since I have been putting these ointments and oils into the ear opening this Bantam has begun walking upright and keeping its head upright along with drinking water and feeding itself. When I did not feed the Bantam prior to this it would climb it's cage for me to feed it so I have continued to care for it because obviously it wants to live. I suppose putting it out of its misery would have been more humane but it still acts like it desires to live. My guess is the bird got ahold of some fungus from a pidgeon that got into the yard that is common for them to contract after getting very cold from going up into a tree in my backyard over my porch near my bedroom window that I would check on them or talk to them out of occassionally on a cold rainy night where I could not reach it to bring it in. As often inner ear infections I have had have been helped by ear drops I used this first on the bantam with great success and when I ran out I puchased in the Afro American section for hair and skin that tends to be dry various natural oils with antibiotic capabilities that I have used on my very dry skin in the past such that I knew about its existance for use on dry skin and hair. I am very glad my black friends told me about these products such that I have used them with great success in the past for myself and now for my little bantam who use to talk to me until he got a headcold he never recovered from.
Fungus is very difficult to cure so make sure you keep old moldy food out of their containers especially if your birds are inbred and less resistant to disease. As this is a very tiny white Bantam my guess is there is some inbreeding from this bantam that did not exist in my others who experienced similar things and did not get this sickly.

 

[chickenlady]

Keystonebantams: For tylan50 injectable: give 1/2cc a day for 3 days to large fowl and 1/4cc a day for 3 days to bantams. You will need to use a 20 or 22 gauge needle as tylan is very thick. Inject just under the skin in the breast area, not into the muscle. Inject into a different spot each day. This med works very quickly, you should start seeing results within 24 hours.

As for the original post, I would just use Tylan50 or 200 injectable. It sounds as if you need to do something quickly here. Also clean out the eye as already mentioned. Best of luck to you.

 

[dschwalm]

I have been watching this thread with interest; growing up on a ranch we had many chickens and they were never sick so I have zero experience treating diseased chickens. However, I recently purchased a small flock of bantams from a show breeder (wanted my own little urban flock) and they have been one by one getting sick with some sort of respiratory ailment ): So I'm learning a lot-the post from pips&peeps/Peter Brown was especially helpful! I did want to ask, in regards to the nasal flush, where does one get sterile water-or will a gallon of filtered water from the grocery store work? Can I boil it to make it sterile? Thanks!

 

[chicknmania]

I think sterile water would just be distilled water, wouldn't it? Idk, I have never tried the nasal flush Glad Peter was helpful to you, he could probably clarify that question. Good luck with your flock.

 

[scubaforlife]

Can someone send me a link to ILT vaccine? I can't seem to find it.

 

[chicknmania]

You can get it here: www.firststatevetsupply.com. Contact him right away as he will be unavailable for a while after the end of this week. I would try to send him an email today and mark it urgent. He is an excellent resource (Peter Brown, aka the Chicken Doctor.)

 

[eastbaychicks]

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They sell sterile saline solution at the drugstores... I'd try that.

 

[speckledhen]

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+1

If you're not going to test to find out what you're dealing with, I'd cull the bird. Flea market poultry is usually a really bad thing--this exact thing is why many folks, myself included, never ever buy birds from anyone.

 

[keatonskeets]

If a pair of birds have infectious coryza disease, would their offspring be clean if they were hatched in an incubator an never came in contact with the parents, or any other infected bird? Or, would the disease be transfered genetically?