Hello, I've bought my cochin bantam hen 3 months ago with health issues (she wasn't bought from a professional breeder). She is around 1,5 year old. There are no poultry vets where I live because people here just kill sick chickens.
I don't know for how long but she had some sort of ingrowth between her beak and cheek that is fully healed now and an ear infection(?) that looks like that:
And here is the healthy ear for comparision:
The sick one isn't covered with feathers and everyday I find some sort of dryed or half-dryed substance that either covers the ear like a cork or more often at the base of feathers around the ear. She has no trouble with balance, acts like a normal healthy hen, no laying problems, no internal/external parasites. Everyday I apply an anti-bacterial spray (Octedin) on the ear area and remove the dryed substancies.
Any ideas what is it and how to effectively cure it? I'm adding photos of her swollen ingrowth that we managed to heal just in case both problems were connected. Thank you in advance and sorry for my English, I'm still learning.
I don't know for how long but she had some sort of ingrowth between her beak and cheek that is fully healed now and an ear infection(?) that looks like that:
And here is the healthy ear for comparision:
The sick one isn't covered with feathers and everyday I find some sort of dryed or half-dryed substance that either covers the ear like a cork or more often at the base of feathers around the ear. She has no trouble with balance, acts like a normal healthy hen, no laying problems, no internal/external parasites. Everyday I apply an anti-bacterial spray (Octedin) on the ear area and remove the dryed substancies.
Any ideas what is it and how to effectively cure it? I'm adding photos of her swollen ingrowth that we managed to heal just in case both problems were connected. Thank you in advance and sorry for my English, I'm still learning.