puffy eye

[Stokley]

Perfect, thanks.

 

[Stokley]

I've tried the tetracycline twice now, each for 10 days but the eye is still the same (clouded with pink eye lids). Looks like a roo and can can hold his own against all the others when it comes to food and perch space. Any other suggestions on how to fix this?

 

[Haunted55]

Is this one showing any other symptoms to make you think he may be sick? Sneezing? Wheezing? Not knowing all that is going on now, I'm guessing.

http://www.ehow.com/info_10073623_treatments-eye-worms-chickens.html

This maybe something to check. I've never seen them myself so have no experience with this at all. You could also do a search here on BYC and see if any of the other threads may talk about something to help you figure this out. I know that with my own, sometimes there isn't an answer and it is just the way the bird is going to be.

 

[Stokley]

Thank you so much for the reply. No other symptoms that I am aware of but I'll check out the worm thing and if present try out the solutions you lead me to.
Have a great day.

 

[mynewbabies]

I have a sick rooster also, read your post, great info, but was is oxine and where do you get it ?. How long do you use it on them ?

 

[Haunted55]

I have a sick rooster also, read your post, great info, but was is oxine and where do you get it ?. How long do you use it on them ?

http://www.revivalanimal.com/Oxine-Fogger-and-Oxine-AH.html

This is where I got mine. You should not need the activator as all you want to do is spray them correct? If you can afford the fogger unit they sell, go for it, but there are other ways to get the mist to them. Use it for a few days after symptoms stop and then set up some kind of schedule and mist them and their housing periodically. I use a 1 1/2 gallon pump sprayer on the finest mist I can get and it works great.

 

[mynewbabies]

Thanks a lot this will help a lot if I need to keep bacteria , germs from spreading, my rooster didn't survive, we purchased him from the fair, not sure how old he really was , we lost his mate a few months back, makes me wonder if they were sick when we got them, it s sad when you get new chickens and not knowing how well they really are. I think this spray will work out fine . Have you seen it in feed stores at all?

 

[Haunted55]

Thanks a lot this will help a lot if I need to keep bacteria , germs from spreading, my rooster didn't survive, we purchased him from the fair, not sure how old he really was , we lost his mate a few months back, makes me wonder if they were sick when we got them, it s sad when you get new chickens and not knowing how well they really are. I think this spray will work out fine . Have you seen it in feed stores at all?

Not around me I haven't. I have to order it online. When you got these birds did you keep them quarantined for 6 weeks? It is never a good idea to just bring new birds into your flock without a complete separation for that amount of time. You need this time to make sure nothing shows up in the new birds. Oxine is a wonderful thing but it will not get rid of one of the respiratory diseases that chickens can get. Once they have one, they have it for life and can and will infect other birds.
http://www.wvu.edu/~agexten/poultry/biosecy.pdf
http://ohioline.osu.edu/vme-fact/0009.html

Here are a couple of links for you to check out.

 

[Traceys chucks4]

Hi everyone I know this an old thread but I've just been reading through coz one of my girlies has got a poorly eye that looks like this but also look frothy in the corner of her eyes she not eating much but noticed today that another one of my girls eyes are starting to look puffy can anyone give me some advice please? I would be most grateful X

 

[Betsy57]

I also have one chick of 12 days old that has a puffy eye. I'm new to BYC and to chickens so any advice you can provide will be much appreciated. I'm going to try to upload two pictures of the little darling. For what I've read here it seems that adding tetracycline to the water would be the best approach. It's only in one eye, and this is the only bird that has the problem. S/he seems to be as active as the others and I'm keeping an eye on all of them. Please let me know what you think. Many thanks.
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Is the chick blind?