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My flock spent some time in another coop whilst we were away for a few days over Christmas, we suspect it might have been a fight with another chicken perhaps. Unsure as we noticed the swelling a few days after they returned home, so it may also be an injury from in our coop or run. The gunk...

Her beak didn't smell rotten in this case. Thanks for these resources, I'll have a look through to get myself more informed :)

Thanks for everyone's responses. We took our chook to an avian vet. She cleared the remaining gunk from her mouth and took a swap to look under a microscope. Nothing was moving under the scope so seemed to be a bacterial infection from suspected injury. We've been given a course of Amoxicillin...

Hey, One of my hens has become ill this week and I wanted to get some advice from the community. We noticed her cheek had become puffy and at the time we saw something black protruding from the corner of her beak (not shown in pic / since removed), we removed it and seemed like a seed that had...