Blindness

[Ronnie_Powell]

Has anyone every experienced Blindness in their Birds?

A friend of mine has  two hen pigeons that appear to have developed blindness in one eye and are losing weight.

They began by closing the eye and he assumed that they had either been in battle or had debris in the eye. It has now been two days since he first noticed the closing of the eye and has rang me tonight to say that the iris of the eye appears to have lost colour and is clear as water. He suspects the eye is blind.

Any ideas before he consults a vet?

[REDCHEQHEN]

There are threads on here regarding this  - do a search - near top of page  

 

most are in the health section - 'whats wrong with my bird' etc

[tarzan]

mycoplasmal conjunctivitis

[nutverlal]

the bird is showing sign of simonolla-

treat it with anitibotics  or baytril.