Rooster Eye Half Closed? Watery?

[PlymouthRocky504]

So came across my young healthy rooster who today has one of his eyes half closed and watery, anyone come across this before or know what to do?

 

[theoldchick]

Flush the eye with saline solution and apply Terramycin ointment twice a day for three days then re-evaluate. Hopefully he just dinged it during a scuffle and it's not something worse.

 

[PlymouthRocky504]

Flush the eye with saline solution and apply Terramycin ointment twice a day for three days then re-evaluate. Hopefully he just dinged it during a scuffle and it's not something worse.

Is it possible to be an infection?

 

[theoldchick]

Hard to say at this point. Might be best to contact your local Agricultural agent or cull the bird and have it tested.

https://www.merckvetmanual.com/poultry/avian-influenza/avian-influenza

 

[PlymouthRocky504]

Hard to say at this point. Might be best to contact your local Agricultural agent or cull the bird and have it tested.

https://www.merckvetmanual.com/poultry/avian-influenza/avian-influenza

Having checked the rest of the flock are normal so unlikely to be bird flu as it kills quickly and none of my neighbours who also own chickens have had issues, so hopefully it’s not

 

[theoldchick]

Exactly. It's difficult to diagnose an illness by looking at picture. Hopefully it's just a minor eye infection from an injury.

 

[PlymouthRocky504]

Exactly. It's difficult to diagnose an illness by looking at picture. Hopefully it's just a minor eye infection from an injury.

I have applied a special antibiotic liquid into his half closed eye so hopefully that will help him, I also noticed he has a black scab just under his eye lid meaning it potentially was a scratch or something and less likely to be an infection as only one of his eyes are showing this issue?

 

[theoldchick]

Could be. Having watched my chickens scratch at their own faces makes be wonder how they miss the eye.