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[brambles]

My pekin frizzle has an eye problem, it was a quarter closed on Monday so I took her to our specialist chicken vet who investigated, was non-committal about myco and gave her some fucithalimate drops/gel for the eye. She started the course on Monday night, along with antibiotics in her water (although not than or bay trail). We had these water antibiotics left from a previous problem and the vet said to use these with the pekin and to give the other girls a course of them as a safeguard.

 

My pekin is in a different run, and as she is a teeny little thing, I bring her in overnight. She's eating and drinking ok, last night pottered round the kitchen and ate the cat food which must be good protein.

 

Water also has herban in it.

 

Today her eye is completely closed. She is breathing ok and her beak has remained closed. I'm going to bathe the eye later in cooled boiled salt water.

 

Any thoughts on how soon these topical eye antibiotics take to work, is it a worry that it's getting worse before it gets better?

 

Should I give her nutridrops?

 

The vet said to give him a call at the end of the week if she was not improving, which I shall do tomorrow in case she needs a boost in antibiotics.

 

Thanks for reading all this! I hatched her myself, so am extra fond of her.

[loumabel]

Hi, sorry to hear your pekin is poorly. Not sure about how long the topical antibiotics take to kick in, but whenever my bantams have been poorly i find that they do not drink enough to get meds into them via their water. I would ask your vet for some antibiotic that you can sringe into her beak to be sure she is getting it. I am a big fan of nutri drops and I don't think it will hurt her even if it does no good. I hope she gets better soon

[brambles]

Thankyou

[coco]

My silkie bantam had an eye infection, I gave her baytril that I had for another hen. Her eye started to inprove within a couple of days and within a week was better.

[Plum]

Hi brambles, how's she doing?

[gongladosh]

if you do end up syringing directly into the beak, you'll need to make sure she swallows it - hold the beak closed for a while. You'll know she's swallowed when you let go as her beak will open and smack shut a few times - they don't like the taste of baytril (quite bitter apparently), though you could put a drop or two of ribena in it to help. I'd not put in more than 2 drops as it's quite sugary.