Canker? What to treat with?

[mistermorel]

Wild birds cannot get through the fence wire. We've got a fully enclosed run with hardware cloth stapled to a wooden frame, and there's bricks underneath the frame so nothing can dig a hole beneath it as well. Maybe a wild bird pooped into the water supply or something...?

No scabs on the comb/face/wattles -- skin on both hens looks super clear and healthy to me.

I'll definitely look into these treatments and thanks to both who recommended the copper sulfate. Do the other treatments get rid of communicability of the canker in the same way metronidazole does? I am concerned about adding new birds to the flock since I'm reading hens with canker are permanent carriers.

 

[Eggcessive]

Canker is a permanent infection, and they are carriers for life.

 

[neophyte17]

I do not have the bodies anymore. It was over a week ago. If more die, I will try that.
If it was wet pox, it would have killed them quickly??? I had tried treatment for months and they just slowly lost, kept opening their mouth and stretching out their neck as if they were not getting enough air. One of them had clear yellow scabs in her mouth that I kept scrapping out cause I could get to it but those yellowish things kept coming back. The other two just had the smell but I couldn't see anything in their mouth but in their throat