This is gross-opinion please

[chicknmania]

Here are Phoenixs eye pictures. Can someone please give me an opinion if this is an injury or illness? We still have not caught him..either I have not had help, I thought he was doing better, or the weather has been too nasty. Should I try polydex eyegel (which means the torture for everyone of catching him,. confining him, then catching him two or three times a day to administer the drops)..or order some fresh antibiotics (Baytril) or just give it a few more days? He is displaying and eating well.

 

[chicknmania]

The first two pictures are the way the eye looked yesterday. The last two are the way it looked a week ago. You can see the swelling has gone down, but the eye itself appears swollen? Today, he is displaying and eating well again. The eye looks more normal, but has foam.
I could put him back on the Denagard double strength too, but I think he needs something stronger?
On Saturday I thought the eye looked normal, and we took him off the Denagard.
I just wonder if maybe the Cipro has lost some strength, and if I ordered some fresh Baytril if it would work better? I hate to keep him on antibiotics so long.....

 

[casportpony]

Can you get a close- up of the eye?

-Kathy

 

[chicknmania]

if you click on the picture, you can see it better. That's about as close as I can come, I can try a regular camera with a zoom lens, but these are with my phone. It looks horrible, but I think it is because the eyeball itself is swollen. It appears that the pupil is pointed downwards...and the eye looks bulge-y.

 

[casportpony]

In this picture it looks like it needs to be lanced.

But only if the swelling is hard. If the swelling is still soft antibiotics *might* work, but they won't if it's hardened pus.
http://connerhills.com/sinus_infection_removal.html

-Kathy

 

[chicknmania]

That is a picture from a week ago. I put the before and after pictures in to show the difference. The facial swelling is all gone now. Just the eyeball itself is swollen and foamy. If you look at the top two pictures, those are what it looked like as of yesterday. Today it looks a little better, but it itches or hurts, he keeps brushing at it with his foot.

 

[chicknmania]

Just in case anyone can use this information....I had a fresh (from this year) Ciproflaxin pill (just one tablet 500 mg) that my DH had leftover. I cut it in eighths and gave Phoenix one last night. This morning he was MUCH better

Eye open and bright! Still itches, but I gave him another eighth this morning, and will continue for the next few days. Think it was just enough to put him over the top. I hope so, anyway.

thank you all for listening.

 

[Mrs. Fluffy Puffy]

This reminds me of a beautiful white peacock that a friend gave us several years back, Romeo. When I first got him he was just fine, but I kept him in a pen with some chickens and he quickly got a sinus infection in both eyes. We tried "operating" on him, every day we'd clean out his eyes and try and drain out some of the fowl smelling pus, but it kept getting bigger. Eventfully we lost him. HOWEVER, after that a peafowl friend told me that whenever her turkeys got a sinus infection she'd give them a shot of Baytril, and in about a week it would clear up. What ever you do, I suggest you work quickly.

Blessings -

~ Aspen

 

[Mrs. Fluffy Puffy]

OH, and I would separate him away from your flock, immediately. It can spread very quickly and can be a nightmare to get rid of.

Another suggestion I have would be to feed him lots of raw, organic, Apple Cider Vinegar, raw cloves of garlic mashed up in his food and any fresh or dried herbs you have that would help open up his sinuses.

~ Aspen

 

[casportpony]

This reminds me of a beautiful white peacock that a friend gave us several years back, Romeo. When I first got him he was just fine, but I kept him in a pen with some chickens and he quickly got a sinus infection in both eyes. We tried "operating" on him, every day we'd clean out his eyes and try and drain out some of the fowl smelling pus, but it kept getting bigger. Eventfully we lost him. HOWEVER, after that a peafowl friend told me that whenever her turkeys got a sinus infection she'd give them a shot of Baytril, and in about a week it would clear up. What ever you do, I suggest you work quickly.

Blessings -

~ Aspen

FYI, Cipro is the same type of antibiotic as Baytril, fluoroquinolone antibiotics.

-Kathy