Chicken with manky comb - what is it?

[Brahma Chicken5000]

Is she a Sicillian Buttercup?

It appears that she has a rose comb.
Whatever is blocking her vision looks nasty. It looks like a cyst popped and oozed pus.
Catch her when she is roosting at night and put her in a dog crate so you can treat her.
@Texas Kiki @azygous @Eggcessive what do you guys think it could be?

 

[Eggcessive]

I have no idea what it is, but I might try some coconut oil or ointment on it to soften whatever is there to see if it can be rubbed off or removed. It could be viral as in fowl pox, fungal, or bacterial, just hard to know. Fungal infections may respond to miconazole or clotrimazole cream, applied daily. But I would start with coconut oil or ointment. A clearer close-up picture or two might help.

 

[azygous]

Barring frostbite, her comb could have suffered an injury. One of the nifty things about chickens is they can injure their comb and feet and the tissue will be destroyed and dry up and fall away with little to no effect on their body.

I doubt very much the hen would "get stressed and die" if caught and examined, which is definitely what I would do. You need to inspect this anomaly up close and figure out what it is. You might be surprised it's something you weren't expecting, which would really rile up my ever present curiosity.

You have the advantage of being able to physically examine her and to use your senses to help describe it. We can only look at a two dimensional photo. By the way, please try to get a better photo that is well focused so we can see more detail. I need to see what the blackened spots might be, although it's usually a sign of necrotic tissue, and that will be what will eventually fall away on its own.

Take a scraping and tell us about it. Dab a bit of oil on the white area and see if that changes the color. What does the comb feel like, soft, hard, crusty, bumpy? Does the hen try to scratch it?

 

[Cyprus]

Your first job is to catch her

 

[azygous]

Toss a blanket over her get her after she goes to roost, wherever that is.

 

[MissChick@dee]

It almost looks like dead tissue. Poor baby.

 

[SeaDragon]

Is she a Sicillian Buttercup?

She looks like either a cross or a poor example of one. That is a breed they have here.

 

[SeaDragon]

What state are you in?

New Zealand

 

[SeaDragon]

Can you catch her up somehow, examine it more closely and take photos?

It could be a fungus, but I'm wondering if it was injured somehow and the tissue is "dead". I do see what I think may be some scabbing.

I would also worry about it covering that eye. So the quicker you can get her the better.
Find out where she sleeping at night and snatch her. Have a cage ready for her, of course do this at night.

Keep us posted.

She sleeps high in a tree. It would be tricky to ambush her.
Will see how she does over the next week.

 

[sourland]

I have no idea what is going on with her. Other than the 'thing' she appears to be in good health. The black bits look almost like fowl pox - the larger brown lesion ? A visit to an avian specialist might help. Personally, as long as she is enjoying her sort of live, I would let her be.