Hi, thanks for this thread about a swollen eyelid. My red star hen has a swollen eyelid, though not a swollen as the birds above in the thread. She cannot open it, I suspect from injury as there are no bubbles, puss, etc. I just noticed it yesterday when I noticed her eye seemed irritated with a few tiny little spots on it that looked like scabs, and today it is worse, the scabs are gone, but she is now lethargic and not moving around much. I found her sleeping on the floor of their little coop by herself while the others were milling about pecking and finding bugs this evening.
All I have here is Calumet and triple antibiotic ointment. I put some ointment in her eye and she opened it and tried to use it for a few moments, I suspect it was temporarily relieved by the ointment. I got her to eat a little yogurt, a couple of mealworms, and some water with nutra-drench vitamins in it.
I am not sure if there is something else going on or if she is dehydrated and hungry from not being able to find her way around. Any thoughts would be helpful. I suspect I will go to
TSC first thing in the morning to pick up the other medication suggestions from this thread.
Thanks, Anne in Oldham County KY