Sparrow-Song
Chirping
- Aug 6, 2022
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Hello! Thank you thank you thank you wonderful people again, this has been the most stressful spring and I can’t appreciate you all enough for your help.
One of our young pullets, a 2 month old Olive Egger, has developed a facial swelling on her left side, and her eye is giving off yellow discharge, which is wet enough to harden into crust. I know enough to be certain it’s a sinus infection, but not enough to say for sure which way to treat it—I’ve seen on here that some eye infections can only be treated through the eye. Background info: our flock has latent mycoplasma and the new pullets have been exposed via going outside into larger coop for around 2 weeks now but I recently (~5 days) introduced a new hen (to them, she’d been bullied by the other coop I’d moved her down to so I moved her back up to the old coop with the pullets) and I think that this may have caused a stress flare up for this poor little one. However, I’m not sure, as it’s only on the one side, and though it seems likely if the infection got in through her eye I’m afraid it might still require eye drops somehow?
We are going on vacation in 3 days for 2 weeks, we have a house sitter but this will be a lot for her, especially because I don’t know how to treat it.
TL;DR 2 month old pullet, flock with background mycoplasma, developed facial swelling and eye discharge but I can’t tell by the location whether I need to treat it through the eye specifically or whether I can use Tylan in her water, was hoping someone would know. Pictures below.
Other side for comparison:
I’ve isolated her and used a warm wad of paper towels to clean her face a bit, but I want to address this as quickly as I can since I seem to have caught it fairly early.
Thank you again!
One of our young pullets, a 2 month old Olive Egger, has developed a facial swelling on her left side, and her eye is giving off yellow discharge, which is wet enough to harden into crust. I know enough to be certain it’s a sinus infection, but not enough to say for sure which way to treat it—I’ve seen on here that some eye infections can only be treated through the eye. Background info: our flock has latent mycoplasma and the new pullets have been exposed via going outside into larger coop for around 2 weeks now but I recently (~5 days) introduced a new hen (to them, she’d been bullied by the other coop I’d moved her down to so I moved her back up to the old coop with the pullets) and I think that this may have caused a stress flare up for this poor little one. However, I’m not sure, as it’s only on the one side, and though it seems likely if the infection got in through her eye I’m afraid it might still require eye drops somehow?
We are going on vacation in 3 days for 2 weeks, we have a house sitter but this will be a lot for her, especially because I don’t know how to treat it.
TL;DR 2 month old pullet, flock with background mycoplasma, developed facial swelling and eye discharge but I can’t tell by the location whether I need to treat it through the eye specifically or whether I can use Tylan in her water, was hoping someone would know. Pictures below.
Other side for comparison:
I’ve isolated her and used a warm wad of paper towels to clean her face a bit, but I want to address this as quickly as I can since I seem to have caught it fairly early.
Thank you again!
