swollen eye infection? Help!

[OFWGKTA]

I have 2 chickens in need of help ASAP.
My sister found out that one of our Bantam roosters has a huge swollen eyeball with puss coming out of it and the other one closed, hes very weak cuz we were unaware that another chicken was bullying him while he was sick, right now he's sitting in a tub with some ointment over his eyes (idk what it is I wasn't there when it was applied) and he's not doing too good. My second chicken babygirl has an eye closed but she is acting normal, so idk if it's the same thing. I rlly don't wanna lose my two chickens pls help!

 

[Muser]

Could be Mycoplasma? I took my chicken to a vet for it and they prescribed an antibiotic. Might be worth doing that. As both are suffering, it's likely some sort of an infection. My flock has Mycoplasma, it's an airborne disease (comes from wild birds or other chickens that have it) that essentially flares up under any type of stress. They can live perfectly happy lives if you keep the stress to a minimum and help them out a bit when they have a flare up.

It might of course also not be Mycoplasma... Are you noticing any snottyness around the nose/mouth and any foaming from the eyes? These are tell tale signs of Mycoplasma. They also tend to sneeze and gasp a fair bit too.

 

[User635240]

It's avian metapneumovirus. I've posted my treatment protocol here:
https://www.backyardchickens.com/th...eavy-breathing-avian-metapneumovirus.1636233/

 

[OFWGKTA]

Could be Mycoplasma? I took my chicken to a vet for it and they prescribed an antibiotic. Might be worth doing that. As both are suffering, it's likely some sort of an infection. My flock has Mycoplasma, it's an airborne disease (comes from wild birds or other chickens that have it) that essentially flares up under any type of stress. They can live perfectly happy lives if you keep the stress to a minimum and help them out a bit when they have a flare up.

It might of course also not be Mycoplasma... Are you noticing any snottyness around the nose/mouth and any foaming from the eyes? These are tell tale signs of Mycoplasma. They also tend to sneeze and gasp a fair bit too.

Yeah he was gasping I forgot to add that and he also had a little bit of snot

 

[User635240]

Yeah he was gasping I forgot to add that and he also had a little bit of snot

Ok so read the link I posted that will help.