Abcess on side beak w/photos Rooster, Please!

[Chicka_dee17]

Hello Everyone,
I have a White Crested Blue Polish Rooster with Abcess on the side of bottom beak and kinda looks like he is getting another one on the other side as well.
- He is maybe 11 months old to 13 months old
(I can check his health record when I get home)
- I just noticed this morning not sure what I'm dealing with.
-Eating, drinking,sleeping, grazing, social.
-Looking for ideas on what it is or details on what I need to do to figure out what it is!!
-Also wondering if i should get the state involved depending on what you all think it may be.
- He also walks like he has sticks for legs (Stiff legs) one legs is slightly larger around then the other leg. But I think he has been like this since he was little but I could be wrong.
-I have a feeling he walks this way and it being larger is because of mother hen sitting on him when he was a baby and got kinda squished or maybe he jumped off the roost and almost broke his leg lol..

I don't know! . But he can run and jump and walk and bend over to eat food and loves to free range.
Thank you in advance for helping!!

 

[Eggcessive]

Does he have a bad odor from his mouth? I can’t all that well from the pictures, but it looks like he might have some canker, a protozoa carried by pigeons and wild birds. Cankers are yellowish to grey cheesey patches inside the beak and throat, and can be painful. Here is some reading about canker, and see if you think that sounds like what you are seeing (scroll down for the article: )
http://www.chickenvet.co.uk/health-and-common-diseases/digestive-problems/index.aspx

http://www.poultrydvm.com/condition/canker

 

[Eggcessive]

Canker is treated with FishZole (metronidazole, Flagyl,) and is available online. Dosage is 250 mg given orally daily for 5-6 days. Here is a link:
https://www.revivalanimal.com/produ...t5DXiSNeXpysubhNkiEwicGKiMd071phoC3LIQAvD_BwE

 

[Chicka_dee17]

Does he have a bad odor from his mouth? I can’t all that well from the pictures, but it looks like he might have some canker, a protozoa carried by pigeons and wild birds. Cankers are yellowish to grey cheesey patches inside the beak and throat, and can be painful. Here is some reading about canker, and see if you think that sounds like what you are seeing (scroll down for the article: )
http://www.chickenvet.co.uk/health-and-common-diseases/digestive-problems/index.aspx

http://www.poultrydvm.com/condition/canker

Okay thank you, No I have not smelled his mouth yet, but I will do.
- I just checked my records and he is 1 years old as of 3 days ago!!!
This could actually make sense at lease in the wild bird aspect, knowing he does free range daily and the snow has completely melted here.


I will read these articles in hopes to find an answer.
I will reply back by tomorrow morning on the visual and smell factor

 

[Eggcessive]

Any closer pictures of his beak from the side may help as well.

 

[Chicka_dee17]

Canker is treated with FishZole (metronidazole, Flagyl,) and is available online. Dosage is 250 mg given orally daily for 5-6 days. Here is a link:
https://www.revivalanimal.com/produ...t5DXiSNeXpysubhNkiEwicGKiMd071phoC3LIQAvD_BwE

Any closer pictures of his beak from the side may help as well.

Okay I will get closer pics of beak and pictures of inside of beak as well

 

[Chicka_dee17]

Any closer pictures of his beak from the side may help as well.

Here are the photos I can get more later, he was a little stressed with the camera so I stopped and will try for more later.
- I feel that I do agree with you on the canker because of seeing a very small brown spot on the inside of where the outside swollen part is.
- the swollen spot on the outside is hard as a rock and his mouth doesn't smell
- Also there is a spot on the roof of the mouth that I didn't see but I can see it on the camera so I will have to investigate that one later.
- would my next step be to get that medicine that you gave me a link to?
- if there are more steps to take I am open ears for suggestions

 

[Chicka_dee17]

Okay I will get closer pics of beak and pictures of inside of beak as well

I see a brown spot on his wattle but if it was fowl pox wouldn't there be more, Or can cankers do this as well?
The spot on his wattle is light brown not red or dark red like a peck or scratch spot.

 

[Eggcessive]

I have seen a case here where many thought the similar growth around the beak was canker, and it turned out to be cancer, unfortunately. About all I know to do, is to treat with the Fish Zole in hopes that it is canker, but the hard mass could possibly be malignant. We are not vets here, just people who have chickens and who are interested in medical issues. If you can see an avian vet, that would be best. But if not, I would try the Fish Zole and watch to see if the mass grows larger.

 

[Eggcessive]

Here is another thread that I had seen, but it was not the one that actually had a cancer diagnosis (I will keep looking) :
https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/hard-growth-on-chicken-face.1250424/#post-20061274