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Chicken with two poorly eyes!

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Hi all! Remember my little pekin amber with the poorly eye, she had a lump in it and was diagonosed by the local vet as having a cyst or a tumour. There was a choice to operate but as she wasn't poorly in herself we decided to just monitor her and see what happened. Well, there was no change in her eye in fact if anything it seemed to get a bit better but then yesterday we noticed it looked swollen again. This morning it looked the same as yesterday-a bit swollen. I went out for a couple of hours and when I came back her other eye is almost completely closed. So she now has one with a swollen lump and another that's closed. She doesn't appear to be able to see out of the closed eye and is walking with her head to the side. I've booked her in with an avian specialist in Birmingham tomorrow (she only works wednesdays and saturday mornings so cant get her in any sooner) but this isn't good news is it? I'm really worried she has something really wrong with her (maybe cancer as was suggested before!) has anyone else experienced anything like this? Any advice please? x

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so should i push for antibiotics for her? whatever's happening has happened quick-i only went out for 2 hours and her eye has completely closed up! I've bathed it too but it doesn't seem to have made any difference. I'll let you know what they say! x

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I didn't no-she hasn't had anything but i remember you saying last time it was a quick diagnosis and you would have expected antibiotics. Maybe it's because it was the local vet and not a specialist. We're going to a specialist tomorrow so hopefully they'll shed some light on what's going on! I'm really worried though, although she does still seem fine in herself and laid an egg this morning! x

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Definitely push for some Baytril. Our Willow lost her sight in one eye due to a vet giving us gel to put in the eye instead of Baytril, therefore the infection spread and she went blind.

 

We didnt remove the eye and Willow leads a perfectly normal chicken life now. :D

 

Good luck.

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Well I'm £50 worse off but she's got baytril, anti inflamatory liquid, painkillers and eye gel. They still think it could be a cyst, tumour or an abscess as inside her beak is swollen too! we've got to keep giving her the medicines and go back again half way through next week. I'd definately recommend going to a specialist-she was fab and gave amber a good examination and showed us how to administer the medicines. Dont know if we'll manage as well as she did though! I'll keep you posted xx

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Update: Amber's eyes are so so much better-she's only been on the medicine since saturday. The lump in her right eye has almost disappeared-it's shrunk back under her eyelid and her left eye is almost fully open. I am so pleased, she looks so much better and can see from both eyes now! (and the administering is getting better) I'm absolutely made up-we're not out of the woods yet but definately going in the right direction! Thanks for all the help and support everyone-I'll let you know when she's in the all clear xx

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