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

[azygous]

It's way too premature to consider euthanasia. If this were to appear in my flock, the first think I would try is painting Blu-kote on the lesions. It can't hurt, and it may just clear it up as Blu-kote is both an anti-fungal and antibiotic.

If lesions show up inside the mouth, Blu-kote must not be used on those lesions.

 

[Eggcessive]

Pox is everywhere when mosquitoes are out, and it is at it’s worst this time of year. Folks who live in the South put upmwith it, and have more severe cases of it. Some use iodine on the scabs to help dry them up, but I wouldn’t even do that. If you have room to keep the ones with pox sepearate from the ones who don’t have it, that might control the spread. There is nothing you can do to treat pox, or to do to prevent wet pox. Just make sure that any weak looking birds are getting enough to eat and drink. If you have scabs around eyes, I might use some Terramycin or Vetropolysin eye ointment in the eyes—just a dot twice a day. Here are some good articles:
https://the-chicken-chick.com/fowl-pox-prevention-treatmen/
https://www.backyardchickens.com/ar...ng-graphic-pictures-under-construction.47704/
http://www.thepoultrysite.com/publications/6/diseases-of-poultry/195/fowl-pox/

 

[Faverolle Lover]

It's way too premature to consider euthanasia. If this were to appear in my flock, the first think I would try is painting Blu-kote on the lesions. It can't hurt, and it may just clear it up as Blu-kote is both an anti-fungal and antibiotic.

If lesions show up inside the mouth, Blu-kote must not be used on those lesions.

I found it in the mouths of the three worst birds. The one with the worst is thin and isn't eating a whole lot. I've separated the worst and they have vitamins I'm their water (just a panpac thati picked up at d&b literally yesterday before I even noticed the others, I'm so glad I went) I have plenty of blu-kote. I have also been having lice in that coop on and off the past three years and as they just about finished molting I was going to start dusting them with permethryn again, will that harm them? And is there anything I can do to help the weak hen?

 

[Eggcessive]

I would get some Poultry NutriDrench or Poultry Cell vitamins with electrolytes, and give the sickest birds 2 ml a couple of drops at a time daily. Offer fluids, cooked egg, wet runny chicken feed, tuna, or liver just to get food into them. Tube feeding can be done if you want to learn how to do it, or have time. Vaccines are available for chickens who have not gotten pox yet.

 

[Faverolle Lover]

I would get some Poultry NutriDrench or Poultry Cell vitamins with electrolytes, and give the sickest birds 2 ml a couple of drops at a time daily. Offer fluids, cooked egg, wet runny chicken feed, tuna, or liver just to get food into them. Tube feeding can be done if you want to learn how to do it, or have time. Vaccines are available for chickens who have not gotten pox yet.

I thought you could only vaccinate chicks... Can I do it to my two year old birds? And should I vaccinate the affected ones too?

 

[Eggcessive]

The companies that sell pox vaccines say to vaccinate between 8 weeks and 4 weeks before laying first eggs, but I am thinking that it can be safely used when there is an outbreak in older birds. There are 2 types of vaccine available online from a few stores. Here is some reading about vaccines:
http://posc.tamu.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/20/2012/08/Fowl-pox.pdf

https://www.hyline.com/aspx/redbook/redbook.aspx?s=5&p=35

 

[Faverolle Lover]

The companies that sell pox vaccines say to vaccinate between 8 weeks and 4 weeks before laying first eggs, but I am thinking that it can be safely used when there is an outbreak in older birds. There are 2 types of vaccine available online from a few stores. Here is some reading about vaccines:
http://posc.tamu.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/20/2012/08/Fowl-pox.pdf

https://www.hyline.com/aspx/redbook/redbook.aspx?s=5&p=35

Would I have to do l stop eating eggs for a while? I'm not saying that's a deal breaker, I just want to not make the mistake of getting myself sick if the vaccine to something to the eggs since one of the birds that has definitely been exposed is still laying

 

[Eggcessive]

Since they recommend giving it 4 weeks before laying, I would wait 4 weeks before eating eggs. Meat withdrawal is 21 days. Here is one of the brands, just click on manufacturers’ label:
https://www.valleyvet.com/ct_detail...OkpNEQ-k4YzTxEhftpdCaU89YP2z-LUsaAu4ZEALw_wcB

 

[Faverolle Lover]

Updates: my roo's doing so much better! Here's in quarantine with three other hens and he's enjoying himself a lot. He's eating well, and not only had one spot of wet pox. I noticed some of his scans coming off and when I removed them there was no pox underneath! Here's a pic to compare with the first ones I attached:
The two sebrights still only have one spot of dry pox but a couple wet pox spots. They're eating and breathing okay so I'm not too worried. I've also got a polish with the same problem but she isn't in quarantine yet because I've run out of cages.
The bird that's scaring me the most is my adult polish hen. She has multiple lumps on hey break and one the size of a BB building on her lower eyelid. She has multiple spots of wet pox in her mouth and although she's breathing fine she is barely eating. I've made a mix of oatmeal and crushed up (shell-less) boiled eggs and she will eat them, but not much. Shes lost a lot of weight and is basically skin and bone. Any ideas?

 

[Faverolle Lover]

One of my sebrights got worse overnight. She only had one or two small lumps in her mouth yesterday and this morning she's had difficulty breathing. There are no lumps blocking her throat but there's three large ones that are worrying me. One is blocking her nose, and the other two are large but not as 3d as the first. She's still eating but I don't know how long that'll last. Please help!!!