Does anyone know?

[coach723]

No one can answer that without seeing current pictures of what it looks like right now.

 

[Ryder]

No one can answer that without seeing current pictures of what it looks like right now.

Okay I will try to get some soon!! I away right now just dI'd not have wifi at home so it might awhile

 

[coach723]

OK, post when you can, and when someone is online again they will look and answer you.

 

[azygous]

It sounds as if this could be Coryza, a very serious CRD (respiratory illness) and very contagious. Likely your whole flock is carrying the virus and stress is beginning to cause individuals to go symptomatic.

The smell you describe is one very powerful symptom that is very typical of this illness. You also may be seeing secondary bacteria at work, also. Strep and mycoplasma can move in and establish residency along with the Coryza bacteria. One of the best antibiotics to treat just such a gang infestation is Baytril, but you will need to ask a vet to give you the prescription.

Treating the drinking water with Oxine is a very wise practice to control the spread of bacteria to the rest of the flock and to keep the Coryza under control.

Are you describing "scissor beak" when you speak of the food falling out of the beak? Or is this something that you've only seen since the onset of this illness?

 

[Peepsi]

It sounds as if this could be Coryza, a very serious CRD (respiratory illness) and very contagious. Likely your whole flock is carrying the virus and stress is beginning to cause individuals to go symptomatic.

Seconding this. The pic of the OP's chicken looks like the picture of the chicken under "Infectious Coryza" in my "Chicken Health Handbook" by Gail Damerow (page 278).
Ms. Damerow suggests treating with erthromycin (brand name Gallimycin) or streptomycin (brand name Vetstrep), or sulfadimethoxine. She also says that culling is actually the preferred method, as any survivors will be carriers, and can re-infect a new flock all over again.

Good luck!

 

[aart]

Does this help the helpers?

 

[Wyorp Rock]

Does this help the helpers?
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Somewhat, but the photo is a week old and OP mentioned it's much worse now, so waiting on updated photos along with what the inside of the beak looks like.

If I had to hazard a guess based on just that photo I would say it's canker.

 

[Peepsi]

Somewhat, but the photo is a week old and OP mentioned it's much worse now, so waiting on updated photos along with what the inside of the beak looks like.

If I had to hazard a guess based on just that photo I would say it's canker.

Wyorp...Out of curiosity, why just canker? This chicken looks identical to the one under infectious Coryza, and has the same symptoms listed.

I am not challenging you in any way, because you have WAY more actual chicken knowledge and experience than I do (which at this point, my practical live-action knowledge is zero). I'm trying to learn, and all I have right now is book learning, and would like to know why you suspect canker. (also wondering, because the section in my chicken health handbook doesn't seem to indicate the same symptoms as the OP's...then again, the OP still hasn't shown us the INSIDE of the mouth, or given more details (like, does the chicken have nasal discharge? Is there cheesy goop inside the mouth, etc)

 

[Wyorp Rock]

Wyorp...Out of curiosity, why just canker? This chicken looks identical to the one under infectious Coryza, and has the same symptoms listed.

I am not challenging you in any way, because you have WAY more actual chicken knowledge and experience than I do (which at this point, my practical live-action knowledge is zero). I'm trying to learn, and all I have right now is book learning, and would like to know why you suspect canker. (also wondering, because the section in my chicken health handbook doesn't seem to indicate the same symptoms as the OP's...then again, the OP still hasn't shown us the INSIDE of the mouth, or given more details (like, does the chicken have nasal discharge? Is there cheesy goop inside the mouth, etc)

Well, if you wish to share whatever photo you are looking at, I'd appreciate it.

Infectious Coryza is a respiratory disease. If it were IC I would expect the OP to report foul smelling mucous from the nostrils, swollen eyes with pus or bubbles, facial swelling, there may be plaques inside the beak, sneezing, rattling/respiratory symptoms.
The symptoms that the OP describes, unless I missed something, she the problem is mainly inside the beak, not sure what's turned into a hole, I can only guess that possibly the lesions/canker is so severe there's only a hole left for the hen to breath through (it's blocking the esophagus?). The beaked is "jigged" which I would assume as well, that the canker is keeping the beak open. Food is falling out because the beak is blocked. The hen reeks (smells bad) which canker would smell really bad.

There very well could be a secondary infection from respiratory disease or some other source. Canker is a protozoa but it wouldn't be uncommon for bacterial or fungal infection to be present as well, I'm just going by what has been reported at this time. Once more photos and information comes in, I may go in the opposite direction. I'm not an expert nor a vet and don't claim to be, I'm just a person who happens to like chickens, nothing else, so I could be wrong.

hen that look to have a sting bumb right at the mouth and started to ferment and turn into a hole

food falls out of the hole and now she is starving! And her beak is jigged to

I picked her up and it reeks

 

[Peepsi]

@Wyorp Rock Thank you for sharing your reasoning. I do agree with you about what the OP said, but he/she was not being very responsive, and I guess I was filling in a lot of blanks.

Here is the picture I was using:

What struck me was that swollen spot between the beak and the eye...it looks just like the OP's chicken.

However, after seeing your message, I did a search online for pictures of chickens with infectious coryza, and the pics online look a lot worse than the pic above, or the OP's chicken. As you mentioned, the pictures of the chickens that have it have their eyes shut and mucus coming out of their nostrils, which the OP's chicken does not.
They do have all of the swollen cheeks that look just like the OP's chicken, but that's about the only thing in common.

Searching for pictures of canker, most chickens did not have the swollen mouth. One did however, and it was a post on this forum:
https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/abscess-in-chickens-cheek-and-mouth-canker-remedies.690374/
Said chicken in that pic does look a lot like the OP's chicken.

I wish the OP would post a picture of the chicken with its mouth open. That would be the deciding factor.

Anyway, thank you so much for sharing your knowledge. I understand where you are coming from now, and I learned a little bit more.