Recommendation for numbing chicken eye?

[Paula321]

I have to remove pus from my hen’s eye and need to know how to numb it. Does anyone use a type of eye drop or lidocaine ointment in the eye?

 

[Kiki]

No numbing needed.

 

[Paula321]

I think the pus is under the nictating membrane. I watched several recommended videos on how to do this but those didn’t appear to be under the membrane. I’m worried I’ll hurt and damage her eye. The two vets in my area dealing w chickens aren’t available for weeks.

Do I really just squeeze this like a black head?

 

[Kiki]

@campingshaws Has a good how to thread... Give me a second to find a link to it.

 

[Kiki]

Here ya go.
Scroll through this one and see if this helps you:
https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/nasty-eye-infection-pics.1071718/

 

[Paula321]

Her area around the eye is not swollen w pus at all. Just the actual eyeball nictating membrane has pus under it. I can’t find any examples of that extraction. All these surgeries involve cutting skin around the eye but this would be me I guess pulling the membrane over somehow. I’ll try that and see if I can manipulate the membrane over so I can squeeze out the pus. Tricky that I can’t find anything covering this.