comb problems.

[bobzant]

I have a black tailed buff japanese and a couple of his offspring that seem to keep getting a recurring fungal infection on their combs. I have some medicine for it but it seems like it just comes right back. Now I also have a mottled cochin that has a crazy lop comb that seems to have something on it too. I forgot to mention the japanese roos combs are very dark at the back and seem to have bad circulation, I'm concerned they're going to fall off if I don't do something.

 

[crested1990]

Extracted From:

A Pocket Guide to
Poultry Health
and
Disease

By Paul McMullin

2004
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Introduction
A fungal infection, Trichophyton gallinae, of chickens and turkeys. It is very rare in commercial poultry production.

Signs

White, powdery spots and wrinkled crusts and scab on comb and wattles.
Feather loss.
'Honeycomb' skin.
Thick crusty skin.
Loss of condition.
Post-mortem lesions

See signs (above).
Diagnosis
Lesions, isolation.

Treatment
Formalin in petroleum jelly.

Prevention
Good hygiene of facilities, culling affected birds.

 

[bobzant]

So I take it it's contagious?

 

[Eggcessive]

A picture of the comb would help. There are different comb infections--dry fowl pox (a virus-no treatment) and favus(a fungus-anti-fungal agent treatment) that I know of. Pictures help to know what it is. You also can google those two disease for pictures.