Pullet with extremely swollen eye! Help needed!

[Brahma Chicken5000]

This Red Sex Link pullet who is close to laying has a very swollen eye and one of her wattles is swollen too. I can’t give a lot of background information on her as she is not my pullet. I tried to clean her eye out but I the yellow stuff (puss?) wouldn’t come off. I checked inside her mouth to see if there were signs of fowl pox and there were none. What can be done to help this pullet?

 

[ButtonquailGirl14]

that is in such bad condition! that thing is HUGE @casportpony @Wyorp Rock

 

[casportpony]

Wow, that's pretty bad. You need to get all of that pus out.

 

[Brahma Chicken5000]

Wow, that's pretty bad. You need to get all of that pus out.

How should I go about doing it? Lance it?

 

[Brahma Chicken5000]

I don’t have the pullet with me. She resides at the farm I work at. I can try to drain the puss tomorrow.

 

[casportpony]

I don’t have the pullet with me. She resides at the farm I work at. I can try to drain the puss tomorrow.

Did you see my abscess and tumor thread?

 

[casportpony]

I would start by tweeting out the visible pus.

 

[Brahma Chicken5000]

Did you see my abscess and tumor thread?

I’ll check it out. I was just looking at your articles page and I think the pullet has Coryza.

 

[casportpony]

I’ll check it out. I was just looking at your articles page and I think the pullet has Coryza.

So what do you want to do? Treat or euthanize? I can offer suggestions on how to treat, but if it is Coryza, it's contagious and lots of people would recommend her, and some would recommend culling the whole flock.

 

[Brahma Chicken5000]

So what do you want to do? Treat or euthanize? I can offer suggestions on how to treat, but if it is Coryza, it's contagious and lots of people would recommend her, and some would recommend culling the whole flock.

I told my boss that we should cull her but she said first try to treat her. I’m no longer going to handle that pullet or any of the other chickens on the farm.