Single Eye Closed on 2 week old chick

AnimalGeek23

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I found one of my 2 week old B.O chicks this morning with a single eye closed. It seemed lively and came to my hand when I reached out to it. The other eye was open, and no lethargic behavior was shown.
Right eye(closed):
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Left eye(bright and open):

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It would open it’s right eye periodically but kept it shut most of the time. Can someone tell me why/the problem? Everything was fine yesterday, we discovered this this morning.
 
Chickens will often sleep with one eye open and one closed. This is because one side of their brain stays awake to watch for predators while the other sleeps. He may just have something stuck in his eye though like @Freeloading slacker said, if he's moving around.
 

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