Young roosters going blind and now one with sore/wound and swelling below eye

[tstmard]

I've searched for answers to what might be happening online but can't really find any that scream and say this is what my roos have. I have 4 roosters 2 Barred Rocks and 2 Brown Leghorns that are 18 weeks old that have what look like cataracts in their eye. I first noticed it acouple weeks ago on one of the leghorns in just his one eye and thought he had got pecked in the eye or something because I'd given the 2 leghorns to my neighbors and they both ended up being severely beaten up by the neighbors flock and finding their way back home. Well now it's 2 Barred Rock roosters and both Leghorns. I have other young ones I got at the same time and after that that have all been housed together and are fine. The 2 Leghorns have not been back in with the other young ones since returning. They all act fine other then having a hard time seeing. The 2 leghorns roam our backyard and have no problem following me where ever I go hoping for a handout. They all can see alittle. the brown boys have no problems finding fallen apples and the water dish, they don't run into things. So they still have some of their vision left.
But this morning my son brought the one brown boy and showed me the area bellow his eye is all swollen and appears to have a sore. Not sure if this is a injury he got because he can't see all that great or if it's from whatever they have progressing.
Here are acouple pictures of the one leghorns eye the other day.
I know the eye isn't in focus but this picture still shows the "cataract". Their pupils are still normal shape and there isn't anything alse wrong with the eye that I can see.




And the picture from this morning. Do you think this is just a injury or a sore?

 

[leadwolf1]

Ouch..that looks like it might be a sting/bite of some sort.

My best advice would be to have one necropsied if it dies. The odds of it not being contagious are slim...if it were one, I'd say genetic/injury..but, all of them? I'm really leaving towards ocular Marek's but, that would just be my best guess.

 

[FlyHigher]

Have you ever checked fowl pox?

 

[tstmard]

Have you ever checked fowl pox?

Yes I've read up on that and they don't have sores except for the one this morning which I think is a wound from something.

 

[clucky3255]

Ouch..that looks like it might be a sting/bite of some sort.

My best advice would be to have one necropsied if it dies. The odds of it not being contagious are slim...if it were one, I'd say genetic/injury..but, all of them? I'm really leaving towards ocular Marek's but, that would just be my best guess.

i agree.... sorry to her about your roos!

 

[pip123]

If you have another rooster they would have been fighting i know this because i have a rooster that was like that if you bathe the swelling with warm salt water it should go down it does work

 

[pip123]

if you have another rooster they would have been fighting for the females the only reason how i know this is because that happened to my rooster but if you bathe the swollen area with warn salt water it takes all the swelling away I HOPE HE GETS BETTER SOON