2 dead, more ill, HELP!

[PoultryPedia]

White "warts" can indeed be clumps of mite gunk. When a chicken has tons of Northern Fowl Mites, these clumps can get built up. Northern fowl mites can go unnoticed on your chickens quite easily. These white "warts" can be a helpful alert!

On the other hand, red Chicken Mites are bigger & easier to spot, plus they leave more gunk around the vent.

One of my roosters unfortunately got so many Northern Fowl mites he got anemic & died before I realized the problem.

Here are photos of what one of my Ameraucana roosters looked like with Northern Fowl mites. He looked pretty different from your birds, it seems, but maybe??

 

[loveourbirds]

ok, im going to pose a silly question. in the OP's case, if the mites are that bad, wouldnt the chicken be showing signs of anemia? or does the swelling and irritation of the bumps make them red, covering the signs?

sorry for the dumb questions, and im not intending to hijack the thread; i just have never seen anything like this. i would like them to have some sort of answer by morning.

 

[PoultryPedia]

If you do think your birds have bad cases of Northern Fowl mites, personally I would bathe them in warm water immediately. You will see thousands of mites rinse off.
The mites die within 3-4 days when they are not on a bird, if some manage to jump off the bird without drowning (I tell you this so you don't have to worry so much about a big bathroom infestation).
Keep the bird warm as you dry it well, and then treat with an insecticide to kill the rest of the mites.

I think it's super-important in such cases to also ASAP start giving extra nutrients such as in Poultry Nutri-Drench and sunflower seeds, cooked egg yolks or other good proteins. A mite-infested bird will be very drained & weak.

 

[PoultryPedia]

ok, im going to pose a silly question. in the OP's case, if the mites are that bad, wouldnt the chicken be showing signs of anemia? or does the swelling and irritation of the bumps make them red, covering the signs?

sorry for the dumb questions, and im not intending to hijack the thread; i just have never seen anything like this. i would like them to have some sort of answer by morning.

I don't know the biology of it all, but you can see in the photo that this infested rooster's comb was red. (Note--The rooster pictured was not the one that died--just another one that had a lot of the mites.)

 

[loveourbirds]

ive just never seen mites that bad. i know i did lose one old english (undubbed) cockerel over mites and his comb was pale, but i dont know if thats normal.

 

[speckledhen]

This is too complicated for us to diagnose for you. It seems to be something that is presenting in a way that could be several different things. You must get in touch with one of your state poultry labs or your state veterinarian. Newcastle, some strains of pox, influenza, fowl cholera all affect the face, but I honestly can't way what this is. It's serious or they wouldn't be dying on you. Please contact someone who has some real authority to help you with this one!

This link has some good photographs, but can't see anything exactly like what you're seeing here:
http://www.fao-ectad-gaborone.org/en/IMG/pdf/Picture_Book-2.pdf

 

[shalott]

Here are some more pictures. Could we have both pox and mites?? This is my son's hen "Peckers". Her throat looks clear to me (but I'm very inexperienced), maybe some bumps under the wing? Her face is beginning to get the white spots. Brownish specks by her vent (mites?). All the birds looked slow and damp this morning (it is quite foggy this morning, though). Planning to shop for mite treatment, and maybe I'll grab some antibiotics and vitamins as per the advice above. Really appreciate all the help!!

 

[shalott]

OH! And miss Peckers had a very bad smell about her.

 

[speckledhen]

These birds need expert help. If they smell, you could have an odd form of Coryza, in addition to something else going on, or something even worse. My gut instinct says if they have mites, it's more than just mites. Please call your state poultry lab. The ones in GA will speak to you over the phone and sometimes you can email photos to them.

 

[Shabana]

Hope you can get some vet treatment for them, looks horrific poor girls. Hope you get some answers to what's causing this.