Eye Injury Prevention Month on July, 2024: PLEASE HELP!!! chickens eye!!!?
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What you describe has left me with three thoughts, eye injury, eye infection, and Fowl Pox.
Eye injury- I would imagine this would be a one-bird situation, and you are saying that multiple birds are having problems. Unfortunately, when a bird becomes injured, it shows many of the regular sick bird look. So check for any places in your chicken housing that could prove to be dangerous. Also, look at the eye to see if it appears to have been poked.
(I once had a young rooster that got jabbed in the eye with a piece of medal fencing. He swelled up dramatically, had chills, and suffered from diarrhea. After learning how to live with one eye, he was perfectly fine).
Eye infection- Is your chicken housing moldy, or dusty. These situations can cause eye infections. You could also have birds with allergies.
Fowl Pox- is a viral disease, that spreads slowly. In other words you could be dealing with this for several months. Symptoms include: poor egg production, poor growth, diabetes, depression, casceous (cheese like dead tissue) deposits in throat, mouth, and sometimes trachea, warty wattles/comb, and eruptions, and scabs.
There is nothing you can do to treat fowl pox. The disease for individuals tends to run 14 days.
What can you do? Prevention is the best medicine. Fowl Pox is created by bugs, so make sure your coops are clean. Also, open skin also increases the risk of fowl pox, so make sure your birds aren’t fighting.
Separate- whenever, you see a bird come down with any illness, make sure you separate it from the flock immediately, and clean the area in which it lived. I like to let areas air out for a while as well. Then once the bird is separated decide what to do.
Coryza...is another possiblity. Symptoms include facial swelling, noise discharge, swelling of wattles, loss of condition, sneezing, snortness of breath...basically it is going to be respitory, so check if the bird is breathing well. This can be treated look here
However, with this disease eye lessions, are post mortem- after death.
What to do with the bird? That is completely up to you. Personally I do not suggest taking it to the vet. I would never let an contagious fowl leave my property, you don’t know what it could affect. Besides, the vet can’t do anything for Fowl Pox. Besides, with all the money that you could save from not taking the bird to the vet, you might as well get some healthy birds and start all over again.
Culling...Culling is the poultry breeders fancy work for killing. It is mean, but once you start to breed you find it extremely necessary. There is nothing like an illness to wipe out your flock. If I had to deal with fowl Pox, and noticed that one of my birds had it after I separated her from the flock, I would most likely cull her, and hope that it ends there. As the longer it is left to wait, the more likely you are to have problems. If I was dealing with something that wasn't so contagious, and could be treated, I would give it a try.
I wish you luck, and will contact you through email, or edit of this post if I find any more information
Jamie/Rhode Runner
Is there a certain awareness cause every month?
January:
Birth Defects Prevention Month
Cataract Awareness Month
Cervical Cancer Awareness Month
Family Fit Lifestyle Month
Financial Wellness Month
Glaucoma Awareness Month
Healthy Weight Awareness Month
February:
African-American History Month
Children’s Dental Health Month
Ethnic Equality Month
Heart Month
March:
Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month
Gender Equality Month
Kidney Month
Mental Retardation Awareness Month
Multiple Sclerosis Awareness Month
Nutrition Month
Red Cross Month
April:
Alcohol Awareness Month
Autism Awareness Month
Cancer Control Month
Child Abuse Prevention Month
Keep America Beautiful Month
Mathematics Education Month
Month Of The Young Child
Poetry Month
STDs Education And Awareness Month
Stress Awareness Month
World Habitat Awareness Month
Personal Self-Defense Awareness Month
Poverty In America Awareness Month
Thyroid Awareness Month
May:
Better Hearing And Speech Month
Better Sleep Month
Correct Posture Month
Creative Beginnings Month
Family Support Month
Hepatitis Awareness Month
High Blood Pressure Awareness Month
Mental Health Month
Teen Pregnancy Prevention Month
Older Americans Month
Osteoporosis Prevention Month
Personal History Awareness Month
Stroke Awareness Month
June:
Aphasia Awareness Month
Children’s Awareness Month
Gay And Lesbian Pride Month
International Men’s Month
Myasthenia Gravis Awareness Month
People Skills Month
Rebuild Your Life Month
Rivers Month
Scleroderma Awareness Month
Student Safety Month
Vision Research Month
July:
Eye Injury Prevention Month
Group B Strep Awareness Month
Purposeful Parenting Month
Recreation And Parks Month
August:
Amblopia Awareness Month
Immunization Awareness Month
Psoriasis Awareness Month
Spinal Muscular Atrophy Awareness Month
September:
Gynecological Cancer Awareness Month
Menopause Awareness Month
Organic Harvest Month
Pediculosis Prevention Month
Prostate Cancer Awareness Month
Self-Awareness Month
Self-Improvement Month
Sickle Cell Awareness Month
October:
Adopt A Shelter Dog Mont
AIDS Awareness Month
Breast Cancer Awareness
Campaign For Healthier Babies Month
Dental Hygiene Awareness Month
Domestic Violence Prevention Month
Down Syndrome Awareness Month
Lupus Awareness Month
Vegetarian Awareness Month
November:
Alzheimer’s Awareness Month
Adoption Awareness Month
Diabetes Awareness Month
Family Caregivers Month
Impotency Awareness Month
Lung Cancer Awareness Month
Pancreatic Cancer Awareness Month
Runaway Prevention Month
Pro-Life Month
December:
Safe Toys & Gifts Awareness Month
Months represents and the colors?
I just listed the one's relating to very common dieases, and also by it's relevancy to your examples but there are more at my source. I hope this helps! :)
November - National Epilepsy Awareness Month (Purple)
Lung Cancer Awareness Month (Clear or Pearl)
National Novel Writing Month (Light Blue)
National American Indian & Alaska Native Heritage Month (None)
December - Political Correctness Awareness Month (None)
Safe Toys and Gifts Awareness Month (None)
January - Birth Defects Prevention Month (Pink and Blue)
Cervical Cancer Awareness Month (Teal)
February - African-American History Month (Red, Yellow, Green)
American Heart Month (Red)
Thyroid Disease Awareness Month (Light Blue)
March - Brain Injury Awareness Month (Green)
Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month (Blue)
Endometriosis Awareness Month (Yellow)
Women's History Month (None)
Greek-American Heritage Month (None)
Irish-American Heritage Month (None)
April - Alcohol Awareness Month (None)
Arab-American Heritage Month (None)
Autism Awareness Month (Red, Yellow, Blue, and Light Blue)
Cancer Control Month (None)
Child Abuse Prevention Month (Blue)
Sexual Assault Awareness Month (Teal)
May - Asian Pacific American Heritage Month (None)
Jewish American Heritage Month (None)
Brain Tumor Awareness Month (Grey)
June - AIDS Awareness Month (Red)
ALS Lou Gehrig’s Disease Awareness Month (None)
Gay and Lesbian Pride Month (Rainbow)
July - Eye Injury Prevention Month (None)
French-American Heritage Month (None)
Group B Strep Awareness Month (Light Blue, White, Light Pink)
August - Amblyopia Awareness Month (None)
Cataract Awareness Month (None)
Immunization Awareness Month (None)
Psoriasis Awareness Month (None)
Spinal Muscular Atrophy Awareness Month (Light Gold)