Wet and Dry Fowl Pox - Graphic Pictures of Pus and Scabs

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Is she yours Kathy? If so, what's your plans with her?
She's mine... have a couple more with both wet and dry, a few with just the dry and a couple with just the wet. So I'm planning sending a PM to that person you mentioned.

-Kathy
 
As for plans , I'm going to weigh, worm and dust them, of course, lol, then those that aren't eating or are loosing weight will get tube fed. Not too worried about the dry pox, like everyone says, that clears up on it's own.

-Kathy
 
Kathy, I know what you are going through 12 fold because I had 12 poults in October 2012 that I put outside during mosquito season in Louisiana (without vaccinating them) and they got wet pox. This is what I did. This may not work for everyone but it worked for me. It takes patience, time and MANY sleepless nights. Kathy, these babies were literally blind during this time. I am happy to say that I did not lose 1 single poult. All of the pulled through. If I would have not devoted my time and 3 hours of sleep each night, I would have lost ALL of them. My motto is "No one dies on my watch."

My poults looked 3 times worst than your girl and survived. They literally have ooey goeey stuff oozing from every orface. :sick

This was my treatment plan. This is what I did. Please read below.

https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/708830/update-chickens-might-have-wet-fowl-pox#post_9723979

Symptoms:
Gasping for breaths
Clear, yellow and green gunk coming from their eyes and mouth.
One or both eyes were VERY swollen and shut. Most of them could not see. They were walking around in circles.
Large wet scabs had taken over their beaks and mouths.
Stopped eating and drinking
Weight loss
Odor from head and mouth area.
Drooping head
Some were unable to walk
Constant sleeping

My Wet Pox Medical Supply Kit
1. Penicillin
2. Duramycin Tetracycline Hydrochloride Soluble Powder
3. Enfamil Poly-Vi-sol Liquid WITHOUT IRON vitamins for kids
4. Anti-bacterial soap
5. Saline solution
6. Flockraiser crumble (mixed with a bit of hot water for feeding)
7. Gatorade
8. Yogurt
9. Pedia sure
10. Latex gloves
11. LARGE wide feeder (Medium size metal pot) - Because they were blind, I wanted a wide open feeder where they could easily access and peck around without trying to
find and peck through a feeder hole.
12. Dishpan for water.
13. Syringe without the needle
14. Bleach

Daily Diet
Mixture of flockraiser crumble (mixed with warm water for easy digestion), scrambled eggs and yogurt. I mixed all of this together and hand fed this to them 3 times a day. I made the mixture as soft/watery as possible because I was literally hand feeding them. Flockraiser crumble was still available for them in it's original form (not mixed with water) and placed in their area. If they stumbled onto the feeder, they would eat.

Set up
1. I removed ALL of them from the chicken yard and set up a make-shift infirmary in my garage.
2. I squared off/blockaded an area wide enough for them to walk around but still able to locate their feeder and waterer if they "ran into it". Most of them were blind from the
large scabs that had swollen and covered their eyes they could not see.

Daily Routine:
1. I cleaned their faces 3 times a day with an anti-bacterial soap for the 1st wash and for the 2nd wash, I used a saline solution. I would not suggest anyone do this but after 3 weeks of not seeing any improvement with the scabs leaving, I picked the scabs off. The skin did bleed a bit but the scabs didn't begin to heal until AFTER I started pulling the scabs. After pulling the scabs, I washed the area with a saline solution. I ALWAYS wore gloves and I changed out and disposed gloves EVERY TIME I went to the next turkey. I never used the same pair of gloves on every turkey when working with them. I did not want more cross contamination although they all had the same thing.
2. I would also gently squeeze the stuff that looked like cottage cheese chunks out of their eyes after every face and eye wash on a daily basis.
3. Duramycin Tetracycline Hydrochloride Soluble Powder and fresh water was mixed for them daily. Because they could not see and probably wasn't drinking the amount that they needed, I used the sryinge to draw up the mixture and slowly drizzle it down their throats. In addition to the medicated water, I also used the syringe to give them fresh water 3 times a day. I also gave them 3 cc's of gatorade (electrolytes & for dehydration) daily. I gave them Pedia sure every other day for weight gain, growth and development.
4. I gave them Penicillin (at room temperature) orally 3 times a day EVERY day.
5. I gave then Poly-Vi-Sol liquid once a day every day.
6. Because they weren't able to preen their feathers, I bathed (bubble bath) them every 3 days with warm water and a little anti-bacterial soap. I made sure they were completely dry and warm before putting them back in the garage.
7. I kept their area sanitized and clean with bleach and water. I was on my hands and knees scrubbing every day.

This was a VERY tedious routine. I would see to them after I finished my other chores with the other animals. I would not finish with them until midnight on most nights but I was determined to save them. After about 5 weeks, I saw MUCH improvement and I started letting them walk around in the back yard every day to familiarize them with the rest of the world being as though they had been cooped up for 5 weeks without seeing or feeling any sunlight or smelling fresh air. After about 6 weeks all of them were healed and had no symptoms and were back to normal. I placed them back in a coop with no other critters for about a week to monitor to make sure that they were 100% before letting them back into general population.

After seeing that they were completely healed, I let them out with the rest of the animals. I did not have any other animals get wet pox after this. All 12 turkeys survived and are doing VERY well. I did have 1 turkey who did lose it's right eye because of the severity of the scabs but other than that the turkey is doing fine. So to say that all of them had 1 foot in the grave and survived with only 1 losing an eye, I think I did ok trying to save them.

Disclaimer:
Again, I can only detail what I did. I will not suggest that anyone do this for their poultry or game birds because it may not work for the next person. I am not a vet nor am I a person with any kind of formal training when it comes to medical care dealing with animals but I am one who reads daily on diseases, illnesses and symptoms as it relates to poultry, waterfowl and livestock.
 
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Good Lord, I think I'm going to kill myself, lol.
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Looks like lots of things for me to try.

-Kathy

Edited to add: They ain't gettin' no baths!
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Good Lord, I think I'm going to kill myself, lol.
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Looks like lots of things for me to try. -Kathy Edited to add: They ain't gettin' no baths!
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:yuckyuck LOL @ they ain't gettin' no baths. :lau It was a LOT to do Kathy but I couldn't just sit on my butt and not exhaust all avenues in trying to save them. I knew that if I at least tried to save them and they didn't make it, then I wouldn't feel guilty because I would have done my best to save them. I was lucky that all of them survived the worst wet pox attack in my history of owning birds. Because I had so many, I had to bath them. The poor babies weren't able to spruce up and preen, so I had to do it.:p And just think, I had a full time job in addition to the other zoo animals and still had time to do this. :th Please post if the other person that you have contacted has an easier method for treatment. Anything that is easier and less time consuming than this is a winner in my book.
 
It's all I can do to treat them (tube, medicate, etc) twice a day, and I don't work, so I don't know how you did it. Well, it's time to get the tube, dust and wormer.

-Kathy
 

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