OMG Look at this WHAT IS THIS!?!? -ACK (beware VERY OMG graphic!)

[animaladdictions]

By the way, I didnt mean to suggest you lance that thing yourself. Id only recommend someone experienced do it. The hen should see a vet if you want to save her. She WILL be in severe pain if left untreated. Remember too, that animals are good at hiding things like pain or disease. Sort of a "don't look at me mr. predator, Im healthy and hard to catch" kinda thing. I imagine if my eye looked like that, Id be quite uncomfortable! If you cant afford a vet, the most humane thing to do is to cull. If she could go to the vet, Im confident she could be saved, although she'll most likely lose the eye. Im sorry for your poor little hen. I hope all goes well! Good Luck!

 

[Tracy the chick]

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totaly understand where your coming from, i have treated many people in my pharmacy many times, ive treated my own connamara horse & treated many chickens! But some people cant either afford a vet or dont have acsess to a vet so they come on here and ask for advice!

 

[Chris09]

I would not lance it,
What that looks like is one of the sighs of Respiratory Disease and what is swollen is a sinus cavity.

What you need to do is keep a eye on all your other birds and either cull the sick birds or put them on a antibiotic.
Amoxicillin, Tylan, Gallimycin, Baytril, LS-50 all work well on Respiratory Disease.

With that bad of infection I would use Gallimycin.

Chris

 

[CariLynn]

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totaly understand where your coming from, i have treated many people in my pharmacy many times, ive treated my own connamara horse & treated many chickens! But some people cant either afford a vet or dont have acsess to a vet so they come on here and ask for advice!

With something minor, I can see treating it yourself or asking what others would suggest or have done in that situation. However, when it is something like this, potentially life threatening, then take it to the vet. If you can't get reasonable professional care when something is serious, I feel you shouldn't have that animal then. We are the stewards and the care taker for animals, they rely on us to do the right thing at all times. Believe me, I know about bills, back in August, one of my draft mares got into the harness shed and ate 25lbs of chicken mash, causing her to colic badly....after our vet and the 5 and a half day stay at a specialty equine facility, we paid $3500.

I also just paid about $100 for a $10 hen to be humanely put to sleep by my vet AND a necropsy done as we thought we had a possible Merek's. Thank goodness it turned out to be melanoma cancer and I did the right thing.

 

[Tracy the chick]

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totaly understand where your coming from, i have treated many people in my pharmacy many times, ive treated my own connamara horse & treated many chickens! But some people cant either afford a vet or dont have acsess to a vet so they come on here and ask for advice!

With something minor, I can see treating it yourself or asking what others would suggest or have done in that situation. However, when it is something like this, potentially life threatening, then take it to the vet. If you can't get reasonable professional care when something is serious, I feel you shouldn't have that animal then. We are the stewards and the care taker for animals, they rely on us to do the right thing at all times. Believe me, I know about bills, back in August, one of my draft mares got into the harness shed and ate 25lbs of chicken mash, causing her to colic badly....after our vet and the 5 and a half day stay at a specialty equine facility, we paid $3500.

I also just paid about $100 for a $10 hen to be humanely put to sleep by my vet AND a necropsy done as we thought we had a possible Merek's. Thank goodness it turned out to be melanoma cancer and I did the right thing.

x2 Carilynn is right please leave well alone and seek a vet out. Xx

 

[Cluckin'Crazy4them]

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That is a long time to have one eye, not to mention all that odd weight on the side of her head and having a long neck. That would drive most animals nuts! That girl has a heart o' gold. I am glad you got such great advice on what it could be and how you can help the young lady out. I hope she can heal up and be a normal, free hen some day, at least in featherheaven if not here.
Let us know how she turns with your treatment

 

[tail_feather]

How is your girl??

 

[Desert Rooster]

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[ChirpNEggBaby]

Wow I appreciate all the suggestions.....as I take care of and raise 100's of chickens...well, we dont take any chicken to the vet. I like them, but I dont consider them pets like dogs, cats or horses. Whatever fate comes, comes, they are not pets. (well sort of but not in a dog kinda way-I mean I cried when my seramas were wiped out in a tornado) The last time the vet was out to look at my horses I had to BEG him to look at a duck who's skull was exposed due to a very mean drake...he LOL-ed and sait to twist her neck...were very country out here. Well as for the duck I made her a bonnett with lots of neospoyin and that thing amazingly LIVED.

Back to this girl....here I am like at least a week later and she is STILL the same...still fuctioning fully...still with a rock on what was her eye...on closer inspection is looks like the swelling forced the eye to the top of the head (ack!) or its just GONE.

I have got brave enuf with gloves to give it a light squeeze to see if something would come out on a warmer day -we are still in the 80's-and nada...its a rock-it would have to be lanced and Im not doing that, Mother Nature will have to do that. I dont want to put too much pressure as I fear it would blast the PUS? back into her head. She still eats drinks and wants out...still on antibiotics. Put 2 clean chickens in with her (shes in the sick box) and they have caught nothing and she's enjoying the company. Probably tomorrow Im just going to turn her back loose in one of the smaller pens and hope that she can live whatever she has left of life....if the hawks get her they get her-thats my one concern as she cant see that well, but its a pen with some guard geese so the hawks only think about it from the fence posts...as soon as the geese go off they are gone.

I do appreciate the response...I have NEVER in all my years seen anything like this-I keep waiting for half her head to explode and be gone and her still be walking and eating.

But anyone have a clue as to the cause..I have now proven it is NOT contagious....Im thinking eye infection gone bad!?!?!....it started with BOTH eyes weepy-redish (looking like infectious coryza or a respitory issue and then turned into THIS)

 

[ramirezframing]

dont know a cause just had it happen here. If you soak it with a warm wash cloth til the hard scab is off than wipe the eye. Its prob. full of soild whiteish cheese looking stuff. you might have to move the eyelid some to get it out but it will come out with just wipping. You will have to do a few times for a few days. She prob has lost the eye but can live fine with out it. Good luck