Swollen Eyes on Silkie Chick (pictures) *update* - & new ?

[kimb]

I have had 2 silkie chicks (16 weeks old) in the hospital for 2 & 3 weeks

My little White girl I believed to have coryza (she's been in the hospital for 3 weeks, inside ~ 65 degrees, where I can monitor her eating/drinking & give her vitamins & medicine her progress has been up and down)

My little brown girl I've had in for 2 weeks (I believed she was coming down with the same thing and just caught it earlier, at the time). But for 2 weeks her only symptoms are very swollen eyes. No sneezing/runny nose etc... she moderately eats (kind of up & down also)

I treated her for 2 weeks with oxytetracycline & vitamins and no change. I use warm damp cloth over her eyes and saline solution to clean them and there has been no change.

When she opens her eyes they're hazy with thick mucus over them and they're usually just cracked open enough to look around and then she closes them again.... I have no clue whats wrong or what else to do for her ...

One eye is MUCH more swollen than the other - and it's swollen under her eye more so than around it.

Pictures:

 

[suebee]

Try Terramycin antibiotic ophthalmic ointment. It's a small yellow and white tube with a big price...$15 at Tractor Supply. Call a vet, they may have it if no Tractor Supply around.
Put a dab on your finger tip and gently wipe in and around the eye every day.

 

[naked_heels]

Have you tried Tylan 50? It might do it for you

 

[Elite Silkies]

I don't see any drainage. It might be that the others pecked her eyes. I had a chick that got both eyes pecked and I used Tylan 50 diluted 1:4 ratio with Saline Solution. One drop in each eye twice a day and it cleared them right up.

If there is drainage and it smells really bad then maybe it is Coryza.

 

[kimb]

I do have tylan and saline solution ! (waiting to hear from my sister if they got the terramycin ointment in their shipment today).

there is no drainage (I just lost my chick that I thought had coryza) and there is a huge difference in the symptoms of the 2, this one her eyes aren't crusted or stuck close - they're just so swollen she can't open them x( ...
I highly doubt any of the girls she's with pecked her eyes though, she was only in with my "blind" silkie girl, black silkie (possibly roo), and 2 very docile d'uccles - all get along fabulously! - I thought she might be allergic to the shavings or hay (I put just a handful in for them to scratch and cuddle with - high quality! that I feed my horses - no mold/dust) ... she's on paper right now. (it's been 2 weeks).

she's some what active (has ups & downs - seems more active around 7ish pm - which it's 5 now and all free range girls have tucked themselves in the coop already - so 7 is a little late)...

Do I need to get it **IN** her eye or just on it? (getting her eye open and getting drops in them have been a battle - but I'll do what I have to to try and save her! )

I'm afraid she might go down hill w.out a buddy around now x(

 

[kimb]

day 2 of tylan/saline and she seems to be doing a bit better

 

[kimb]

she's keeping her eyes open a crack more and more but I think she's blind ...

when she eats/drinks she pecks around at all different spots until she gets something in her mouth ...

Is there anyway this is temporary or can I expect that whatever happened to her to cause the blindness, the blindness is forever going to be a permanent affect?