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That could be a cancer. I've had two chickens with that, so that's what it looks like to me. That's a common place for a chicken to get it. Any wound that appears not to be healing is often a cancer. No, there is no cure.

Veterinary science all is in agreement that debridement in animals is the best way to treat wounds. You will need to access the pus by making small incisions at four corners and pushing the pus out. What I would do is soak and do the initial debridement, put triple antibiotic ointment over it...

That particular location, if I'm correct in reading the photos, is the front of the tibia and notoriously difficult to heal. The common cause of that injury is often a perch that is too high, causing a chicken to miss and hit the perch with the lower tibia. I have two roosters that have injured...

What you are taking for pus could be subcutaneous fat. The difference is that pus is solid and waxy while the fat is a bit thinner and wants to cling stubbornly to other tissue, not as easily dislodged as pus. One thing you might consider is pine tar. It's an ancient farmer livestock wound...

Also, please tell us when the injury occurred. That has bearing on what stage we would expect the healing process to be in. For example, a fresh wound would appear much different than a wound at three weeks.

A photo is always helpful. In trying to describe a wound, sometimes the words you choose aren't adequate. What you describe could be a wound badly infected and swollen with pus. Or it could be a wound in the process of building new tissue around the edges of the wound and it can resemble a...