Crusty mouth/beak 5 year old favacauna : pox/canker?

[Alv401]

Hi all,
I am particularly attached to this chicken and in our nightly cuddles noticed a little crusty stuff in the corner of her mouth. It’s not food as I tried to wipe it. Before I treat her with anything I am hoping to get some opinions on what this could be. Pictures aren’t best but it’s hard holding a mouth open and taking a picture. Let me know if you need better ones! Thanks ahead of time for any suggestions

 

[ChicNmom]

Does it have any bad smell? Canker usually stinks.

 

[Alv401]

Better pictures. She is such a good girl. It is 80 and she has never liked heat but still panting quite a bit

 

[Alv401]

Does it have any bad smell? Canker usually stinks.

Not particularly but I did vet rx her nostrils so that’s all I smell

 

[ChicNmom]

From the second pictures it looks like she has it in the same spot on each side of her beak. I've only dealt with canker once and the lesions were random.

Is she having any other symptoms of illness?

Thrush or wet fowl pox can cause lesions but I've never seen pictures where they were bilateral like that.

 

[Alv401]

From the second pictures it looks like she has it in the same spot on each side of her beak. I've only dealt with canker once and the lesions were random.

Is she having any other symptoms of illness?

Thrush or wet fowl pox can cause lesions but I've never seen pictures where they were bilateral like that.

I agree it is goofy and right in the corner of her mouth. No other symptoms that I can tell. Eating and drinking. She tends to mouth breath because she doesn’t tolerate heat well. Only thing that changed lately is I have allowed them into the veggie garden to destroy and eat left overs so lots of tomatoes and zucchini. Thanks for weighing in. Hoping some other folks do too.

 

[Eggcessive]

The enlarged finger in the first pics looked alarming. But it does look like there is something in the sides of the beak. Is there a bad odor from the beak? Canker usually cause a a bad odor, and is a protozoan infection spread by pigeons and wild birds. It is treated with metronidazole (Flagyl,) ronidazole, or acidified copper sulfate. Wet fowl pox, a virus spread by mosquitoes can also cause lesions inside the beak. Have you seen any scabs or fowl pox recently?

 

[Alv401]

The enlarged finger in the first pics looked alarming. But it does look like there is something in the sides of the beak. Is there a bad odor from the beak? Canker usually cause a a bad odor, and is a protozoan infection spread by pigeons and wild birds. It is treated with metronidazole (Flagyl,) ronidazole, or acidified copper sulfate. Wet fowl pox, a virus spread by mosquitoes can also cause lesions inside the beak. Have you seen any scabs or fowl pox recently?

No other scabs or lesions, no smell as of right now. I am hesitant to treat with metronidazole incase this is nothing because of not knowing withdrawal date although I would rather save her than eat her eggs. Is it possible she ate something or cut her mouth?