Chicken with 'cold' and warts/scabs all over her comb, earlobes, and wattle!

[StarLover21]

She's had a cold for a few days, but just today I noticed that she had these wart's/scabs all over her comb, on her wattle, and one on her earlobe! I'll try to post a picture in a minuite. Could this be something like fowl pox? She also seems to have a cold on top of it- are these part of the same disease or could she have fowl pox and a cold! I gave her Tylan 50 today (for the cold), and will continue to do so through the week, so hopefully that will clear up the cold but I'm not so sure about the scab things. And no, they're not from her being picked on- she's at the top of the pecking order, and I've never seen anybody peck her. She is not laying eggs, and has not been laying them all week. Oh, and she's a White Leghorn hen if it matters- in her first year of laying.

What else should I be doing? Does anybody know what this may be?

Thank you!


P.S I have seperated her from the rest of the flock already.

 

[guesswhatchickenbutt]

I'm no expert, but mine had fowl pox when they were about 18 months old. Got these weird warty things all over their comb and wattles, but it did eventually clear up. Apparently the dry pox is much less scary than the wet pox.

 

[speckledhen]

Fowl pox results in warty like lesions, yes. For fowl pox, the dry pox kind, you don't really do anything. It runs its course. You can apply mild iodine to the lesions to dry them out faster, but after the infection, they are immune and not a carrier.


Chickens do not get colds, though. They get diseases like Chronic Respiratory Disease or Infectious Coryza which leave them carriers, which is why breeders cull (kill) for that type thing. They can also get pneumonia or fungal infections, but you must know the circumstance surrounding the symptoms when they popped up to be sure of those, like a bird who gets soaked to the bone and chilled may in a few days have signs of pneumonia, related to the soaking.