Dry and Peeling Skin on Chicken’s Face

[carlyjoie]

I have inserted a couple pictures of my 2 silkie chickens who are maybe about 6 months old. Can anyone tell me what’s causing their skin to be like this and how to treat it? My other chickens seem fine.

 

[JacinLarkwell]

I had a Japanese with really bad dry skin. She got better on her own after like a month. As long as nothing other than dry skin happens, I believe that they'll be fine

 

[Eggcessive]

Is there any evidence of eye or nasal drainage that could cause the crusts? Can you wash any of them off? A couple of possibilities come to mind. Favus, a fungal infection of the skin can cause a chaulky appearance to the skin. In most chickens it is white, but in slikies can appear grey or yellowish. It is treated with miconazole, clotrimazole, tolnaftate, or similar antifungal creams applied daily with rubber gloves. The other possibility would be scaly face mites which can be similar to leg mites. Usually it is treated with ivermectin pour on 0.1 ml per every 2 pounds of weight. Or vaseline petroleum jelly can help to smother the mites. Dry skin also might be a possibility in winter weather.

 

[Eggcessive]

Here is some info on scaly face mites and also favus:
https://birdvetmelbourne.com/scaly-mites/

https://www.browneggblueegg.com/Article/Favus/Favus.html

 

[LaFleche]

I have inserted a couple pictures of my 2 silkie chickens who are maybe about 6 months old. Can anyone tell me what’s causing their skin to be like this and how to treat it? My other chickens seem fine.

Did they suffer from fowl pox recently?

 

[An6ie]

Is there any evidence of eye or nasal drainage that could cause the crusts? Can you wash any of them off? A couple of possibilities come to mind. Favus, a fungal infection of the skin can cause a chaulky appearance to the skin. In most chickens it is white, but in slikies can appear grey or yellowish. It is treated with miconazole, clotrimazole, tolnaftate, or similar antifungal creams applied daily with rubber gloves. The other possibility would be scaly face mites which can be similar to leg mites. Usually it is treated with ivermectin pour on 0.1 ml per every 2 pounds of weight. Or vaseline petroleum jelly can help to smother the mites. Dry skin also might be a possibility in winter weather.

I’ve had this issue with one of my boys. It hasn’t spread to any of my other chickens so I never figured out what it was exactly. Could have been mites or fungus, as you’ve suggested. I treated it with virgin coconut oil. It’s a natural anti fungal and thick oily base (like petroleum jelly) so it’s f it was mites, the smothering idea worked. Like I said, I never learned exactly what the cause was, but after only 1 day of application, I started seeing a HUGE difference! After 3 days and a gentle scrub with a toothbrush, all the flaky build up was gone, waddle and comb was bright red again, and skin was moist and healthy.

 

[joserod]

I have inserted a couple pictures of my 2 silkie chickens who are maybe about 6 months old. Can anyone tell me what’s causing their skin to be like this and how to treat it? My other chickens seem fine.

i’m having the same issue.Did she get better?