blindness

This morning when I let my chickens out of their run, I noticed one of my most active chickens, Babygirl, stayed behind in a corner of her coop. I opened it up and started talking to her, when she started squeaking helplessly and looked at me— one of her eyes wasn’t open. She seemed very scared...

A male Japanese quail, currently 5 years old. Less active and vocal than when he was younger with the eye problem in question but otherwise quite healthy. He was scratching his left eye for a week or two in late August before he decided to keep it shut for most of the time; I suspect a cataract...

I haven’t been on this site in a while, but today I had a chick hatch with what appeared to be blood on it’s head, but upon further inspection was much more concerning. This little guy hatched under one of my broody hens. When I picked him up for the first time I’m 99% sure I could recall...

Hello all, I got some day old chicks a few days ago and I have noticed one of them seems to have been born blind. She pecks at the air and has trouble finding her way around and is constantly peeping in distress. She'd about 4 or 5 days old now and she's significantly smaller than the others...

I have a pullet who is almost 4 months old. A couple days ago, she developed grayish clouds in both eyes and her eyesight had greatly diminished. I thought she was totally blind at first, but upon observing her for a few minutes, she was seeing slightly out of her right eye. She did get to the...

My Easter Egger hen, roughly 9 and a half years old, has progressively been losing her vision. The other day we found her continuously turning her head as though she were dying, and when my mom picked her up, she rolled onto her back (she would NEVER do this) but she didn't do this when I picked...

Hey My baby dove developed this blue shade in/on his eye. I'm pretty certain this can cause him to go blind and i really don't want that. What can I do? Would it disappear? I think it's because he's been looking at the orange heat light that I use to keep him warm. But I've blocked it from his...

This is my first post, so please bear with me! I have been reading BackYard Chickens for a year or so now, and last year we tried hatching some duck eggs (managed to hatch 11 out of 12). Until about 6 weeks ago, we had 3 hens, 2 runner ducks and 2 peacocks who live together in relative harmony...

A duckling hatched today (Along with his five siblings) Under a broody hen. I noticed he was only opening one eye, so I gently opened the other. However I saw a cloudy bluish mess over his eye? Is this blindness or something else? Can the little guy adapt to living like this? Side note: Despite...

Ok, so I have a small assorted flock of 10 pet hens and 1 rooster. the suspect bird is a 3yr old white rock. I know she came from a questionable home. I got her when she was approx 1 yr old. Occasionally over the past two years (maybe two or three times a year) she gets "under the weather"...

My geese do not get sick really so this is a mystery to me. Recently my boy George and little girl Regina have been jumping the fence, they are the only ones who do it. They are brown Chinese and this evening I noticed one of George's eyes has been squinty and I got a closer look the top of his...

We put our 2 yr Welsummer down today because we discovered she was blind in both eyes. 4-5 days ago she was seeing well enough to jump and grab bread from my hand. No way to know if she was seeing well then or just had adapted to judging distinct shadows. Looking back over the last 4 days I...