Sick Chicken - Eye Infection?

[jslater14]

I noticed today that one of my BCMs was acting off. It started with her kind of moving around, but standing still for a while often. I noticed from a far that one of her eyes was closed. After further inspection, it looked like the eye was kind of gunky/slimy. She eventually started hiding in between some bushes with her tail tucked.

I moved her to the garage with some water and food mixed with some garlic powder and treats. She ate the treats and some of the food. I also put some manuka honey around her bad eye.

Does this just sound like an eye infection? Recommendations for treating naturally?

 

[nuthatched]

Remove the food with garlic asap, garlic is toxic to chickens in moderate amounts.
Rinse the eye with saline or warm water to see if you gave an infection from injury or virus.
You can buy terramycin from the internet and the feed store to apply, neosporin will also work if it's not a virus.

 

[Wyorp Rock]

I noticed today that one of my BCMs was acting off. It started with her kind of moving around, but standing still for a while often. I noticed from a far that one of her eyes was closed. After further inspection, it looked like the eye was kind of gunky/slimy. She eventually started hiding in between some bushes with her tail tucked.

I moved her to the garage with some water and food mixed with some garlic powder and treats. She ate the treats and some of the food. I also put some manuka honey around her bad eye.

Does this just sound like an eye infection? Recommendations for treating naturally?

Do you have photos?

Flush the eye with saline, remove the gunk and pus, then put Original Neosporin or Terramycin eye ointment in the eye.

With her hiding, she may have been pecked or injured in the eye, hard to know.

Feed her her normal feed, omit the garlic. Bits of egg, fish or meat are always enticing.

Look her over for lice/mites and make sure her crop is emptying.

Do you see her being bullied by the others or have you added new birds recently?

 

[jslater14]

Do you have photos?

Flush the eye with saline, remove the gunk and pus, then put Original Neosporin or Terramycin eye ointment in the eye.

With her hiding, she may have been pecked or injured in the eye, hard to know.

Feed her her normal feed, omit the garlic. Bits of egg, fish or meat are always enticing.

Look her over for lice/mites and make sure her crop is emptying.

Do you see her being bullied by the others or have you added new birds recently?

Here are some photos. She’s not really opening her eye so that was the best I could get.

Crop feels normal. No mites/lice that I can see. And I don’t think bullying is the culprit. We have one mean girl but she doesn’t really go after the other girls much.

 

[Wyorp Rock]

Here are some photos. She’s not really opening her eye so that was the best I could get.

Crop feels normal. No mites/lice that I can see. And I don’t think bullying is the culprit. We have one mean girl but she doesn’t really go after the other girls much.

Could be from injury. I'd treat as suggested in the previous posts.

 

[jslater14]

Could be from injury. I'd treat as suggested in the previous posts.

Update: We cleaned the eye and applied antibiotic eye gel. It has hypochlorus acid. I couldn’t get terramycin in time.

This morning she seems a little worse. Eye is more gunky and mostly closed. Not interested in eating. She’s just standing there, fluffed up

I had some eye drops for an infection that was prescribed for another chicken who had an eye infection and put a drop in.

Other observations: she only pooped once overnight but she also hasn’t eaten much.

Are these behaviors normal for just an eye issue?