The last pics are how it still looks. He seems to be getting around better but has not eaten for a couple/few days. He was 1 year December 12th.



The first concern with eye problems (and this may have been addressed in an earlier post to you so forgive if I am being redundant) is Vit A deficiency. That was where I started. I gave him 2 doses (a week apart) of 8000 iu of retinol palmitate (vitamin A you buy at the drug store). The size I got (8000i.u.) I pricked with a pin, squeezed it into a cap then pulled it up with syringe and it came out to be about .1cc and I shot it in his mouth when I got him to gape. It made no difference with the eye so I moved on.



I am NOT telling you to do this without discussing with your vet. Everything I did was with my vet and the Vit A dosing I got from Gary Ferguson. So I don't know if you have tried this but you might want to read up on it and talk to vet and others here and elsewhere online. There is a lot of discrepancy about using preformed Vit A and beta carotene and the chams ability to use the bc vs. retinol.



Probably confused you more, sorry. :-/ Hope he improves!



Here is Cyrus last July in the unripened blueberry patch It's weird to look at his eye then - and now



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