Pullet with swollen face

[CarpCharacin]

Are you ready to try and get the pus out of the eye?

I understand you have an appointment for this week but if you do nothing there's a chance she will die before then.

I think so, but I'm still kind of nervous, because I can't see exactly where the pus is.

 

[Kiki]

I think so, but I'm still kind of nervous, because I can't see exactly where the pus is.

What about the mouth...can you dig that out?

 

[CarpCharacin]

What about the mouth...can you dig that out?

I can try.

 

[CarpCharacin]

I tried cleaning her mouth out with a q tip. I also tried pressing firmly on the swollen area, and I couldn't get any pus to come out.

 

[Ebony Rose]

Just to be clear, chicken pus is not liquid like human pus. It's cheesy, doughy, kind of like play-doh consistency. This is why poking it with a needle won't do the trick; it needs to be expressed similar to how you'd excise a blackhead.

 

[CarpCharacin]

Just to be clear, chicken pus is not liquid like human pus. It's cheesy, doughy, kind of like play-doh consistency. This is why poking it with a needle won't do the trick; it needs to be expressed similar to how you'd excise a blackhead.

I know, and I pressed pretty firmly. I have a scalpel that I could try poking the swollen area with, but I don't want to do more harm than good.

 

[casportpony]

Just to be clear, chicken pus is not liquid like human pus. It's cheesy, doughy, kind of like play-doh consistency. This is why poking it with a needle won't do the trick; it needs to be expressed similar to how you'd excise a blackhead.

I suggested the pushing on the lump because sometimes you can get a little pus to come out through the nares or choanal slit.

 

[CarpCharacin]

I suggested the pushing on the lump because sometimes you can get a little pus to come out through the nares or choanal slit.

I did push on the lump, but I didn't see any pus come out.

 

[casportpony]

This is something I wrote in 2016

Last month I found a rooster with a nasty infected eye, but no other signs of respiratory infection, so I removed the pus as best as I could and set him free. Several days later the pus was back, so I did it again, but this time I was more aggressive and manged to get this out of his choanal slit:



Cause of sinus infection was the foxtail. To get it out I had to apply pressure to the area between his nostril and his eye.

 

[BigBlueHen53]