Motherhen518
In the Brooder
- Jan 21, 2022
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Hey fellow chicken lovers!
I was hoping for a little advice for my white crested polish bantam.
Since I brought her home a few months ago she has had irritated red eyes. None of her flock mates have developed this issue but I have struggled to get it to clear up. Recently one eye got worse and filled with pus. Tonight I used saline, a warm compress and qtips to loosen the chunk of pus and remove it from her eye however she has a chunk in the center of her eye that I could not remove.
As it took quite a long time to remove it and stressed her out a lot I decided to give it a rest for the night, gave it one good final rinse and applied terramycin ointment.
Then I cut pretty much her entire Crest off to keep her from getting any further debris in the eye.
She looks rediculous but is very obviously feeling so much better. But I am concerned that the remaining pus will hinder healing.
I plan to rinse the eye, remove any pus that I can and apply the ointment twice a day from here forward in hopes that it will clear things up. My question is:
With rinsing and applying ointment will that stuck bit eventually come loose?
Is there a limit for how long I can continue treatment with the ointment?
Is there any further treatment I should use for this?
And what could this be? She's had these eye issues since day one and has been with her flock mates the entire time with nobody else developing issues. Her full blooded sister who I had previous to her also had this same issue but we were able to get hers to clear up easily. But this sweet girls issue is persistent.
Thank you for any input!
I was hoping for a little advice for my white crested polish bantam.
Since I brought her home a few months ago she has had irritated red eyes. None of her flock mates have developed this issue but I have struggled to get it to clear up. Recently one eye got worse and filled with pus. Tonight I used saline, a warm compress and qtips to loosen the chunk of pus and remove it from her eye however she has a chunk in the center of her eye that I could not remove.
As it took quite a long time to remove it and stressed her out a lot I decided to give it a rest for the night, gave it one good final rinse and applied terramycin ointment.
Then I cut pretty much her entire Crest off to keep her from getting any further debris in the eye.
She looks rediculous but is very obviously feeling so much better. But I am concerned that the remaining pus will hinder healing.
I plan to rinse the eye, remove any pus that I can and apply the ointment twice a day from here forward in hopes that it will clear things up. My question is:
With rinsing and applying ointment will that stuck bit eventually come loose?
Is there a limit for how long I can continue treatment with the ointment?
Is there any further treatment I should use for this?
And what could this be? She's had these eye issues since day one and has been with her flock mates the entire time with nobody else developing issues. Her full blooded sister who I had previous to her also had this same issue but we were able to get hers to clear up easily. But this sweet girls issue is persistent.
Thank you for any input!