Worm in chickens eye?

[swampfox440]

Piperazine , VETRx , work wonders .

 

[Swbertrand1]

Piperazine , VETRx , work wonders .

Which of these is safe around and in the area of the eye and lids?

 

[swampfox440]

Which of these is safe around and in the area of the eye and lids?

It looked like eye flukes to me so if you remove them manually there could be eggs to deal with or secondary infection .The piperazine is put in the water at recommended dosage . Look up eye flukes in chickens and there is a good description there . Good luck . I said this because my memory isn't what it use to be

 

[Eggcessive]

Piperazine , VETRx , work wonders .

Piperazine is a wormer. Vet Rx is an herbal remedy that includes rosemary, oregano,balsam pine, and camphor oils. If it is a foreign body in the eye, I would not use those.

 

[Swbertrand1]

It looked like eye flukes to me so if you remove them manually there could be eggs to deal with or secondary infection .The piperazine is put in the water at recommended dosage . Look up eye flukes in chickens and there is a good description there . Good luck . Isaid this because my memory isn't what it use to be

Wow! You may have nailed this. I'm reading up on eye flukes and treatment now. This site looks like it covers it pretty well:
https://animallova.com/treatment-fo...st cases, this infection can cause death, too.

This one too:
https://www.merckvetmanual.com/poul...itions-of-poultry/fluke-infections-in-poultry

 

[swampfox440]

Piperazine is a wormer. Vet Rx is an herbal remedy that includes rosemary, oregano,balsam pine, and camphor oils. If it is a foreign body in the eye, I would not use those.

You are correct Piperazine is not put in the eye it is put in the water .

 

[swampfox440]

Wow! You may have nailed this. I'm reading up on eye flukes and treatment now. This site looks like it covers it pretty well:
https://animallova.com/treatment-for-eye-worms-in-chicken#:~:text=Eye-worm in chicken is called Oxyspirura mansoni. This,worst cases, this infection can cause death, too.

This one too:
https://www.merckvetmanual.com/poul...itions-of-poultry/fluke-infections-in-poultry

Wow ! you found that fast and even linked it . @Swbertrand1

 

[Eggcessive]

Eye worms are one of the rare types of poultry worms. They are more common in tropical areas where the Surinam cockroach lives, since that is the intermediate host. @dawg53 has posted a treatment in the past, using Valbazen (albendazole) given 1/2 ml orally, and taking a small amount of Valbazen mixed with water or saline, and applying that into the eye. Repeat both treatments in 14 days.

 

[Eggcessive]

Surinam cockroach:
https://www.google.com/url?sa=i&url...ved=0CAgQjRxqFwoTCOCep8PBjfICFQAAAAAdAAAAABAN

Eyeworms in a bobwhite quail:
https://www.google.com/url?sa=i&url...ved=0CAgQjRxqFwoTCOCep8PBjfICFQAAAAAdAAAAABAe

 

[swampfox440]

Surinam cockroach:
https://www.google.com/url?sa=i&url=http://www.poultrydvm.com/condition/eyeworms&psig=AOvVaw1_bpVQ_TXYxH1FyDGan16t&ust=1627827808843000&source=images&cd=vfe&ved=0CAgQjRxqFwoTCOCep8PBjfICFQAAAAAdAAAAABAN

Eyeworms in a bobwhite quail:
https://www.google.com/url?sa=i&url=https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Oxyspirura-petrowi-adult-worms-in-the-eye-of-a-Northern-Bobwhite-collected-in-Texas-in_fig1_258062778&psig=AOvVaw1_bpVQ_TXYxH1FyDGan16t&ust=1627827808843000&source=images&cd=vfe&ved=0CAgQjRxqFwoTCOCep8PBjfICFQAAAAAdAAAAABAe

Don't tell the eye flukes this , they didn't know they were not allowed in Ohio and somehow got in our chickens eyes .