black sores on comb and wattles

[justinschkz]

can anyone tell me what are these black sores on my chickens combs and wattles? they have been there for a couple weeks. and all 27 of my chickens have them.

 

[PrincessKristin]

I have same thing in my flock. It is fowlpox. No cure from what I hear but it runs it's course in about 4 weeks then they are immune for life like humans with chickenpox. I was told can put iodine on them ( make sure not in eyes) to dry them out. Good luck! I need some luck myself with it btw it is transmitted by misquotes from what I've read.

 

[justinschkz]

thanks alot was hoping it wasnt anything to serious. hopefully it will go away soon. goodluck with yours too!

 

[mickey328]

Our girls have them too. They seem to come and go, but they seem to be just spots...can't feel them at all...just patches of black skin.

 

[PrincessKristin]

Thank you, I'm new to all this and when I saw them it had me in panic.

 

[mickey328]

Hehe, ours had them when we brought them home. I figured they were just sort like freckles or moles. Wasn't till after I was reading through some other posts that I realized that's what it was. We even identified a couple of them due to where they were placed...then they went away and we didn't know who was who!

 

[PrincessKristin]

That is why I put those plastic tie thingies on mines legs I have only three banded , two of my three r.i. reds.ones on the left leg the other on its right and no band on the third. Then I banded one of my two buff orps. All the rest of my flock is different from the rest of their flockmates.

 

[mickey328]

Yeah, we were talking about that just a couple of days ago. Of our 6, two are lighter in color and one of those is at the bottom of the pecking order so she's got a few missing feathers...those two are easy to identify. Of the 4 that are about the same color, one has a large patch of light on her throat and one has a good sized V shape of light at the back of her head. So it's primarily the other two that we can't differentiate. One of these days, we'll get around to it, LOL