[lotte]

Help please, bought some chickens from a show 3 weeks ago and now several of my chickens have died and one has an eyeful of pus in her eye which won't go!! They have all been on a high dosage of Baytril antibiotics and all have now stopped sneezing or looking unwell apart from the one with this huge swollen eye. I try cleaning the eye twice a day bathing it in with warm water and getting as much of the puss out as possible. But it isn't getting any better at all!! Any ideas?? She is eating and fit and well now in every other aspect and seperated from the others. Help please!!!!!!!!!!

[Victorian Farmer]

you should of quarantined them for a month . Baytril is the right way but you need some think stronger tylin will be next .Get a syringe give 1 and a half mill st rate in its beak and do that for a week also put tylin in the water for the others and start feeding treats boiled eggs porridge milkey cereal this can be sorted its just bad luck .All the best in saving these lovely hens .Doing it at night is better on the hens .

[lotte]

Hi there, thanks for that, what was it you said to give them in beak?

[Victorian Farmer]

Mix the tarlin in a egg cup and put 1 and a half mil in the syringe and give the hen this .yogurt is good as well

[lotte]

Thank you, will contact vets to see if they have, Baytril was the only thing they said they gave chickens!!

[Laurasfarm]

It's sounds like they have Mycoplasma.  Even with treatment they will all ways be carriers a may infect any new hens you bring in.

Keep treating the eye, there is a chance they can recover.  Bare in mind the trauma for the hen if treatment is to stressful she may never recover and a humane end may be better.

Also extra vitamins, hard boiled eggs and Echinacea will all help fight the infections