Chickens with yellow lumpy faces, please help!!!!

[Faverolle Lover]

I have a roo and a little hen that have yellowish lumps all over their faces. when I remove the lumps they had a bunch of smaller lumps on the inside that still seem to be connected to him, I don't know if it's scar tissue or part of the lump. I assume this is a fungal infection but please help as I don't know how to continue. Here are some pictures.

 

[sourland]

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[Faverolle Lover]

 

[Brahma Chicken5000]

I wonder if it may be fowl pox
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[Faverolle Lover]

I took the ones on his right wattle ito and the only weird looking stuff was white and connected to the scabs while the rear of the lump looked like it was cancerous, but my entire show flock seems to be infected with at least one lump.

 

[Brahma Chicken5000]

I took the ones on his right wattle ito and the only weird looking stuff was white and connected to the scabs while the rear of the lump looked like it was cancerous, but my entire show flock seems to be infected with at least one lump.

Have you taken any birds to a show recently? Have you brought new birds into your flock?

 

[Eggcessive]

It looks like fowl pox, a virus spread by mosquitoes. I would not disturb the scabs since scabs can spread the pox virus, even when they fall off. Usually without secondary infections pox is short lived going away in 3 weeks or so. If any seem especially sick, look inside the beak and throat for yellow plaques of wet pox, which can be more serious, making eating painful.

 

[Brahma Chicken5000]

It looks like fowl pox, a virus spread by mosquitoes. I would not disturb the scabs since scabs can spread the pox virus, even when they fall off. Usually without secondary infections pox is short lived going away in 3 weeks or so. If any seem especially sick, look inside the beak and throat for yellow plaques of wet pox, which can be more serious, making eating painful.

Will the birds be carriers for life?

 

[Faverolle Lover]

It looks like fowl pox, a virus spread by mosquitoes. I would not disturb the scabs since scabs can spread the pox virus, even when they fall off. Usually without secondary infections pox is short lived going away in 3 weeks or so. If any seem especially sick, look inside the beak and throat for yellow plaques of wet pox, which can be more serious, making eating painful.

Is there anything I can do to speed the healing up? Are my notes defiantly going to survive if I keep it out of their throats? And at what point should I consider mercy killing then to save the rest of my flock?

 

[Faverolle Lover]

Have you taken any birds to a show recently? Have you brought new birds into your flock?

I took one to a small local fair in July, but she only has a very small lump that isn't scabbed at all, the past birds I bought were chicks over year ago and one this year that isn't affected.