How should I treat this?

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InsaneBreeder

InsaneBreeder

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Feb 12, 2010
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Two of my chickens' eyes swelled up and became watery overnight, and because they had mites at the time, I am thinking it was from scratching (the chickens also had scratch-marks on their faces and combs, where the mites were), and not from eye worms. Is there something I could put in the eyes to prevent them from becoming infected?

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because it is so close to the eye I would just keep the area clean with saline and gently wipe it with a gauze pad a couple times a day, make sure you use a clean pad for each eye
 
Look like you have Infectious Coryza...
Infectious Coryza
Infectious Coryza is caused by the haemophilus paragallinarum bacteria, older birds are more susceptible than young ones. The disease organism cannot live for long outside the body of the bird, but recovered birds may be carriers. In most flocks a rigid culling system will eliminate the disease, but it must be rigid. In extreme cases it may be necessary to break the cycle by confining all hatching to the spring months and disposing of all old birds as soon as the hatching season is over.

Signs
Watery eyes
Facial swelling, including one or both eyes swelled shut
Foul smelling discharge from the nose
Diarrhea
Low egg production
Wheezing

Transmission
This is very contagious, and is easy spread by any kind of contact by sick, or carrier birds.

Diagnosis
The most common signs of this are facial swelling, including eyes swollen shut, with a fowl odor from the nasal area.

Treatment
Streptomycin
Gallimycin
Sulfadimethoxine
It is recommended to cull infected birds, as symptoms can come back after treatment, and all infected birds become carriers of this disease, and will continue to infect other fowl on your yard.

Chris
 
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Before you start "culling" your hens, I would get a professional opinion. What is being suggested is extreme. Your hen doesn't look like she has discharge from the nose, etc. I wish you the best of luck on this and hopefully it is a result of mite medication not coryza.
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I have no knowledge of that disease, and so I could be wrong, but I don't think that's it. Here are my reasons: 1) there is no nasal discharge and nothing about them smells foul; 2) the eyes are still open and capable of blinking; 3) they are young, not old; 4) neither pullet has missed a day of laying since this first showed up; 5) they are not wheezing.

One question I do have is if this disease you have mentioned shows up overnight or not.

Edit: also, neither have displayed behavioral changes of any sort, and nothing else is wrong with them besides the eye.
 
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Thank you. I meant that I thought it was a result of the chickens scratching the mites on their faces, not the medication that I administered shortly after the swelling appeared.
 
This does not look like IC. My flock was infected last year and it looks totally different. The eyes start to leak bubbly fluid. It really looks like soap bubbles. They also smell terrible. Like rotting flesh. Just my 2 cents
 

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