My frozen chicken help..

[FernbergFarms]

She is outside with a heat lamp. Thank you @Miss Lydia

 

[Eggcessive]

Can you bring her into a room in the house or garage? I use plain Neosporin or Triple Antibiotic ointment in eyes. Neosporin eye ointment is $30 for a tiny from a vet. Neosporin topical is $3 for the skin. It is good enough for a chicken, and my bloodhound, after we ran out of the $30 tube. Flush the eye out with the saline, and dry it with a tissue. Apply the ointment 1/8 into the eye twice a day.

Antibiotics are usually not sold in feed stores, with the exception of injectable penicllin G, oxytetracycline, and FishMox. You had said that your friend had some injectable ones. You can get Tylan (tylosin) powder for the water online here, but it has to be ordered now to get it in a few days:
https://www.jedds.com/shop/tylan-soluble-100-g/
Dosage is 1 tsp in each gallon of water for 5 days. If you are going to treat with antibiotics, you should order it, since she may get worse.

 

[FernbergFarms]

Okay yes I am going to try to get some tomorrow. Should I put the triple anti biotic ointment on well I’m giving her Tylonsin? I haven’t got the Tylonsin yet but I am going to get it hopefully tomorrow.

 

[aart]

Do not put skin ointments in the eye. You will damage her eye.

I've heard this adamantly for humans, from a pharmacist when I had a surgical incision in my lower eye lid...
...but repeatedly that it's ok for animals.
Could you expound as to the why's, please, @CatWhisperer?

 

[CatWhisperer]

I would never put topical ointment in any eye. What’s bad for people is usually bad for animals. Your skin is relatively thick and insensitive compared to your cornea. If it says on the label not to use it in eyes (and it does) then you shouldn’t.

 

[Eggcessive]

Okay yes I am going to try to get some tomorrow. Should I put the triple antibiotic ointment on well I’m giving her Tylonsin? I haven’t got the Tylonsin yet but I am going to get it hopefully tomorrow.

Yes, use the antibiotic ointment in the eye twice a day, and when the tylosin (Tylan) comes, use it for 5 days.

 

[aart]

I would never put topical ointment in any eye. What’s bad for people is usually bad for animals. Your skin is relatively thick and insensitive compared to your cornea. If it says on the label not to use it in eyes (and it does) then you shouldn’t.

But do you know what does it do to the eye?

 

[Eggcessive]

This discussion about neosporin eye ointment and neosporin topical has been going on for years here. I am an RN, have used the topical in my dog and chickens. No infection there. Both products are sterile and appear completely the same on the label. One is prescription and $30 and one is $1-3 and OTC. If someone is very concerned about using an eye ointment, there is also Terramycin which one can get at many feed stores. It will work against MG, but if there is E.coli in an eye, then the neosporin would work better.

 

[sloanbychoice]

Is there an update on how she’s doing?

 

[aart]

This discussion about neosporin eye ointment and neosporin topical has been going on for years here. I am an RN, have used the topical in my dog and chickens. No infection there. Both products are sterile and appear completely the same on the label. One is prescription and $30 and one is $1-3 and OTC. If someone is very concerned about using an eye ointment, there is also Terramycin which one can get at many feed stores. It will work against MG, but if there is E.coli in an eye, then the neosporin would work better.

I was just curious as to the exact why(if there is one).....maybe there isn't one.....but pharmacist told me(with a look of horror on his face )that I could go blind if I got regular triple AB ointment in my eye.
Maybe just another myth, spread by people who should know better(the pharmacist).
Wonder if using pain relief type(-caine)AB ointment/cream on birds, because it is toxic to them, is another myth?