silkie eye infection

[swimmerchick]

Hey world!
I have had an eye infection running ramped in my coop! It only seems to affect white silkies! So far I've lost two white silkies too it. I've never seen or heard anything like it before!
It starts with a small hard lump above or below the eye, then over time swells up to cover the chickens eye and seals it. No sooner then after the eye has swollen up, it begins to puss up and become goopy. Soon after it will strike the other eye. There for plugging up sinuses and shallowing breathing and making it so it can only drink and not eat. It has only struck my 5 white silkies. None of my blacks or blues where affected neither where the other chickens.
If you have every heard of this decease please let me know
Thanks
swimmerchick

 

[Kelsie2290]

Hello and Welcome To BYC! You might want to post in the Emergencies forum about your birds, hope you are able to figure out the problem https://www.backyardchickens.com/f/10/emergencies-diseases-injuries-and-cures pictures would probably help also
if it is something white silkies are more prone to, you might want to post on the silkie threads https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/297632/silkie-thread

 

[gander007]

X 2 on Kelsie2290

 

[TwoCrows]

Hello there and welcome to BYC!

So sorry about this disease running thru your flock. Kelsie has left you with the link to our emergency section. I hope you can get a hold of this soon.

 

[sourland]

X 3 on Kelsie's advice. Good luck at resolving this problem.