Blue eye? Injury?

[BlueMoonFarms]

My poor Mr. Crackers has had a very rough life at him old home apparently...
First the tip of his tail was chewed on by something, he had an old wound on his poor neck from what looks to be a stab most likely to another male, and now I have found that his eyelid has a hunk missing from it like something caught it or bit it Now to top it all off, he has injured his eye...

His tail is healing up nicely but I happened to have a picture of it when I first brought him home and bathed him so I figured I would pop it up there.
Anyway, his eye I just noticed today and I want to make sure hes alright. He has been headbutting every now and then with my other ram but nothing to serious.
Any thoughts?
The poor guy just seems accident prone...

 

[Southern by choice]

If he were mine I'd be treating the eye. We have had several serious eye injuries and so we follow our vets orders but basically we treat the eye with Penn. a few drops 2x a day for 1 week.
Looks like his cornea is very thick.

You may want a vet to look at it and see what they say. Eye injuries can be pretty serious.

We have had eye injuries serious enough that we almost lost a goat and long story short his blue eye ended up turning brown and months later as it slowly healed it did turn back to blue. He was blinded in that eye for awhile. The eye was almost out of its socket.

 

[Roving Jacobs]

He's a jacob, right? The eye looks like it has SUED (split upper eyelid deformity) which is fairly common in jacobs, especially 4 horned ones. In mild to moderate case it looks like a notch has been taken out of the upper eyelid just like you're describing. It can make the sheep more prone to eyelid injuries, especially things like the eyelashes scratching the cornea.

Definitely treat the eye! I use medicated ointment but talk to your vet. Eye wounds seem to heal up well in my experience but they get ugly if you just leave them alone.

 

[Southern by choice]

He's a jacob, right? The eye looks like it has SUED (split upper eyelid deformity) which is fairly common in jacobs, especially 4 horned ones. In mild to moderate case it looks like a notch has been taken out of the upper eyelid just like you're describing. It can make the sheep more prone to eyelid injuries, especially things like the eyelashes scratching the cornea.

Definitely treat the eye! I use medicated ointment but talk to your vet. Eye wounds seem to heal up well in my experience but they get ugly if you just leave them alone.

Forgot about that Roving! Neither of ours have it but we only have the two and they are two horned. Is there more prevalence in 4 horned or does it matter?

 

[Roving Jacobs]

It's more prevalent in 4 horned because its connected to the gene that splits the horn bud into multiple horns. The trick is that there are 2 horned sheep that are genetically 4 horned but the horns are fused and they can have SUED too.

 

[Southern by choice]

It's more prevalent in 4 horned because its connected to the gene that splits the horn bud into multiple horns. The trick is that there are 2 horned sheep that are genetically 4 horned but the horns are fused and they can have SUED too.

Thank You!

 

[BlueMoonFarms]

It's more prevalent in 4 horned because its connected to the gene that splits the horn bud into multiple horns. The trick is that there are 2 horned sheep that are genetically 4 horned but the horns are fused and they can have SUED too.

Oh thank goodness! For a moment I thought the poor guy was just having some seriously bad luck happening.

If he were mine I'd be treating the eye. We have had several serious eye injuries and so we follow our vets orders but basically we treat the eye with Penn. a few drops 2x a day for 1 week.
Looks like his cornea is very thick.

You may want a vet to look at it and see what they say. Eye injuries can be pretty serious.

We have had eye injuries serious enough that we almost lost a goat and long story short his blue eye ended up turning brown and months later as it slowly healed it did turn back to blue. He was blinded in that eye for awhile. The eye was almost out of its socket.

I put a call into my vet and hopefully will hear back from them tomorrow. I do have some eye cream that we used on the dog a while back so it will be interesting to hear if its usable or not.
Anyway, thank you for the input!
Hopefully he will heal up and stop getting hurt X_X

 

[autumnprairie]

Which eye ointment do you have you may be able to use it until you hear

 

[Sheepshape]

A tetracycline injection will often help a great deal.

On a very positive note,sheep eyes have a MUCH greater tendency to heal without sight loss. Last year we had an awful problem here with Chlamydial eye disease (warm weather and lots of flies). In spite of trying to be vigilant we ended up with a few animals who had completely cloudy eyes and thick corneas and were temporarily blinded. All went on to regain their vision with the eyes clearing over a period of 2-3 weeks.

I hope the poor boy has an easier time of it from now on.

 

[purplequeenvt]

X2 what Roving said about the split eyelid!