Pullet with extremely swollen eye! Help needed!

[Wyorp Rock]

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

Does she have a bad smell?

It will be hard to know what is causing the eye infection unless you get lucky and pull a foxtail out of the eye. I would try using a warm compress to help soften the pus and slowly try to work that out, use generous flushing with saline. Terramycin ointment or Vetericyn eye gel/ointment would be good to put in the eye.

If you are handling these birds, it would be wise to read up on bio-security to help protect your flock. Is this a chicken farm that you work at or a farm that has chickens

 

[Brahma Chicken5000]

It’s a farm that has chickens.

 

[Brahma Chicken5000]

@Wyorp Rock the pullet doesn’t have a bad smell.

 

[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.

If it isn’t Coryza how can I treat it? Should I bring her home and isolate her and try to remove the pus?

 

[casportpony]

If it isn’t Coryza how can I treat it? Should I bring her home and isolate her and try to remove the pus?

It could be other contagious diseases, so that's up to you. To treat it all the pus needs to be removed, which you might be able to do without surgery. I would also suggest starting her on an antibiotic.

 

[Brahma Chicken5000]

It could be other contagious diseases, so that's up to you. To treat it all the pus needs to be removed, which you might be able to do without surgery. I would also suggest starting her on an antibiotic.

My boss gave her a shot of some yellow fluid but I don’t know what it was. She isn’t coughing or gurgling but the Black Sex Link cockerel in the isolation stall with her is.

 

[casportpony]

My boss gave her a shot of some yellow fluid but I don’t know what it was. She isn’t coughing or gurgling but the Black Sex Link cockerel in the isolation stall with her is.

Might be wise to let your boss deal with it then.

 

[Brahma Chicken5000]

Might be wise to let your boss deal with it then.

She’s away on a horse show and won’t be back until Monday. The pullet doesn’t seem to be in pain so I will leave her.

 

[Brahma Chicken5000]

It’s very dusty in the horse stalls that the chickens are kept in could that be causing them to sneeze? I got (rescued) a bantam pullet and a bantam hen from her and they are fine.

 

[casportpony]

It’s very dusty in the horse stalls that the chickens are kept in could that be causing them to sneeze? I got (rescued) a bantam pullet and a bantam hen from her and they are fine.

Could be, but could be something really nasty.