Chicken not being able to eat, now growth on beak

[Broome Chickens]

If in fact it's canker, it will spread to your other birds via waterers/feeders. Birds remain carriers for life.
Treatment is acidified copper sulfate. Dosage is 1/4 teaspoon per gallon of water for 3 days straight once a month. Use a plastic waterer to provide it for your birds.

Okay, that will be a good enough reason for me to go look inside her beak tomorrow when sun is up: do I look for necrotic lesions? If she has got that I treat all from here on?

 

[Chicalina]

If you can get some help to hold her and look, then you could get some photos and post here. It might help some knowledgeable people help to diagnose the problem.

 

[dawg53]

Okay, that will be a good enough reason for me to go look inside her beak tomorrow when sun is up: do I look for necrotic lesions? If she has got that I treat all from here on?

You'll know it from the necrotic lesions and the smell...which you've already sniffed lol.

 

[Broome Chickens]

Hello again, Smokey was quite energetic this morning and we attempted to took pics. She has yellow/white inside her beak, no black lesions as far as I can see. Apology for the bad pictures. Is this an access? It surprises me as the outside grew later. However, all advice welcome. Can I do something, could a vet even if being clueless about birds in general?

 

[Chicalina]

I'm no expert, but that looks like an abscess to me. Perhaps a course of antibiotics would be worth a try instead of assuming cancer and not treating at all. You can get fishmox from aquarium stores and look up the dosage on threads here for chickens.

 

[Broome Chickens]

I'm no expert, but that looks like an abscess to me. Perhaps a course of antibiotics would be worth a try instead of assuming cancer and not treating at all. You can get fishmox from aquarium stores and look up the dosage on threads here for chickens.

Thank you, I have called pet food stores, they have none. The vet will only prescribe after seeing the hen; their response in the past was: we know nothing about chickens, we either put to sleep or prescribe antibiotics. I have some Amoxicilline left in the fridge and have just given her a 1/4 dose with water and honey, will do the same for 3 days and see what happens. She is more 'up' today than she was before. But the growth on her beak, which I dreaded was a maggot, is actually hard (the dark bit). Maybe she had something stuck and it is working its way out? I just pray she has a bit more time provided it is without pain and suffering

 

[Chicalina]

I hope you manage to fix it. Nothing to lose with a course of antibiotics now, and possibly something to gain.

 

[Broome Chickens]

I hope you manage to fix it. Nothing to lose with a course of antibiotics now, and possibly something to gain.

Thanks heaps, I agree. She had her second dose this morning.
Can/should I clean out the yellow stuff inside her beak or will that be hard/painful/unremovable?
Am also considering adding colloidal silver to the water canisters/bowls for the other hens as an immune booster, have no idea about the dose - anyone?

 

[Chicalina]

Thanks heaps, I agree. She had her second dose this morning.
Can/should I clean out the yellow stuff inside her beak or will that be hard/painful/unremovable?
Am also considering adding colloidal silver to the water canisters/bowls for the other hens as an immune booster, have no idea about the dose - anyone?

I'm really not sure. Perhaps @Wyorp Rock @Isaac 0 or @azygous can help?

 

[Chicalina]

I've just found this on canker and it looks like it might be helpful. Perhaps alongside the abx you could try the treatments suggested in this article http://www.poultrydvm.com/condition/canker