Cancer?

[okiegreengal65]

My silkie has been sick for a couple of weeks and Wyorp Rock helped me on that. First diarrhea, straining to go poop, not much appetite. Finally she got to feeling better, not well but gaining some weight back. Then yesterday she didn't eat much and she didn't act like she felt good at all. Wouldn't eat much today again. I was afraid that what ever had clogged her up the last time (never found) had moved and was causing the same problem so I gave her some coconut oil and a little yogurt. After that mess she needed a bath, I found this lump on the left side of her neck above her craw. The dimple is where a feather was. It's about 1/2 half the size of a dime and raised up a little more than 1/4 of a inch. It didn't seem to hurt her when I messed with it. I've got better video of it but it's too large to load.

 

[MysteryChicken]

I'm thinking abscess, is it squishy like a pimple, or hard like a nail?
@Kiki
@azygous
What's your opinion? Could it be an infection due to an abscess causing this chicken's illness?

 

[Kiki]

My silkie has been sick for a couple of weeks and Wyorp Rock helped me on that. First diarrhea, straining to go poop, not much appetite. Finally she got to feeling better, not well but gaining some weight back. Then yesterday she didn't eat much and she didn't act like she felt good at all. Wouldn't eat much today again. I was afraid that what ever had clogged her up the last time (never found) had moved and was causing the same problem so I gave her some coconut oil and a little yogurt. After that mess she needed a bath, I found this lump on the left side of her neck above her craw. The dimple is where a feather was.View attachment 1990286It's about 1/2 half the size of a dime and raised up a little more than 1/4 of a inch. It didn't seem to hurt her when I messed with it. I've got better video of it but it's too large to load.View attachment 1990286

I can't see/tell what it is in the pictures.
You would have to upload the video to YouTube first...is that doable?

 

[Eggcessive]

Can you get a little clearer picture in focus?

 

[azygous]

When you see a pimple-like bump on the skin amidst feathers, it could be an ingrown feather. It would have a dark center, and it could possibly be an inverted "U".

I've run across these from time to time on chickens in my flock, and I take something sharp and nick it where the dark center is. That usually frees the pin feather and it pops upright. If not, a tug with tweezers can free it. Put some ointment on it and that should do it.

I'm sure if you look at it closely with a magnifying lens, you will be able to describe what you see much better than your phone can photograph it.

 

[okiegreengal65]

It's a donut shaped very hard lump that clear pink color is the lump, her regular skin color is blackish blue like what a silkie has. It looks like to me it's on her windpipe or ? I can hear her having problems breathing. She's not eating just picks at food or slings it around. Would eat boiled eggs, blueberries, grapes and moist crumble till yesterday. It has slowly gotten where she ate softer foods and less of it. She is so skinny I don't know that she could come out of it quick enough to survive. I'm calling my vet right now.

 

[okiegreengal65]

Oh and I know what an abscess looks like on a chicken and it looks nothing like the few I have seen before.

 

[azygous]

Have you looked inside her mouth and throat for other such lesions?

Have you felt her crop in the morning to see if it's empty or full?

Talk to your vet about tube feeding. They can sell you an inexpensive catheter/syringe kit to get food and liquid into her if she won't eat.

I use strained baby food (comes in jars in the baby section of the grocery store. Or you can pick up some baby bird formula from a pet store.

 

[okiegreengal65]

I looked in her throat and it looked ok had 1 very little spot but I think it was really a piece of egg because I only saw it once. This morning the donut is more blueish gray. I tried to open it but it's not on top of the skin it must be pretty deep. Also today she is snaking her neck and head around when she tries to swallow.I did get a tit cannula filled 3 mm syringe with yogurt and got her to swallow small amounts at a time. That's when I noticed the head/neck thing. But other that that she hasn't ate today. I've got baby food " fruit"that she has snacked on the last few days.
I pulled a few feathers out of the middle of it "donut" that's why there are black dots on it. It really doesn't feel attached to any thing tho. The "donut" is below her beak, to the left of my finger.

 

[okiegreengal65]

Oh and her crop is empty. Didn't eat much yesterday at all. And her bed had poop in it this morn. Probably enough to cover what she ate.