Chicken has "pimple"

[mothrhen]

I'm at a loss for what this is. She is one of two pullets that I bought from another farm. This is the first time I've brought a bird from somewhere else to my place. Both appear healthy, are eating/drinking and the pimpleless girl is laying daily. They've both been in quarantine for a month and I was just about to start acclimating them to their new group. Overnight a firm white pimple pops up by her nostril. It's firm but has some give to it when pressed on like I could pop it. This is day three for the pimple and it is staying the same size which would be a decent size zit on a person. It doesn't affect her ability to breathe. Sorry, I have no pics available until I can find my charger... By the way, the place where I got her had every imaginable type of poultry free ranging together. I probably shouldn't have brought home birds from there. I was just picking up quail eggs but, they were just too cool to leave behind. Ideas?

 

[dawg53]

I hope you kept the 2 new birds quarantined away from your other birds....biosecurity.
It's possible the pullet with the pimple inhaled a feed granule through one of her nostrils and it's lodged just under the skin. I've had this happen and you're right...it looks like a zit. In my hen the granule had worked it's way through the sinus cavity to the right side of her face. I tried popping it to no avail, too hard. I then sanitized the area and used a sterilized razor to cut open the skin, a small slit is all that was required. I used tweezers to remove the hard granule. There wasnt much blood, mainly on the granule. I then put neosporin on the wound and it healed up completely in 3 days.
When you get the chance, please post a pic.

 

[mothrhen]

Wow! I've never heard of such a thing! It makes sense though. It came from nowhere overnight. I've Googled every chicken disease imaginable and nothing looks like this. Thanks Dawg53!

 

[chickenenthuist]

So my actual chicken has a pimple. But like, a dead chicken. I didn't kill it, the guys at the factory probably did, I hope. Anyway, sorry about going off on a tangent. Point is, my chicken meat has pimples. It says it expired in 2012 so that may be the reason, but as my late mother always said "If it doesn't kill you the first time, it probably won't kill you the other 7 times." She was a great parent in my life, and it's a shame that she died of salmonella at the ripe age of 27. Sorry - Tangents again. Uh, where was I? Pimples! Yeah so I was just wondering whether when your chicken died you saw any pimples on his decaying corpse. I popped one and it kind of oozed a weird gel that's kind of purpley-green in colour, if that makes sense. Y'know now that I type it out, purpley-green doesn't sound like a plausible colour, but I'd have to disagree with myself there. Oh my gosh I could be Opposite over Adjacent right now cause I'm running off on tangents so often. Anyway, so yeah. Pimples on dead meat. Do you reckon it's safe to eat? Many thanks!

 

[LeafBlade12345]

How do you have chicken meat that expired 2012? Also, post pics of the pimples, it will be very helpful.