Fowl Dry Pox: Suggestions-First Time Chicken Raiser Help!!!!!

[jcoz]

You will see scabs on combs an wattles. At first I thought it was just the ladies roughhousing each other, but Ruffles my queen sassy bum, had the worst of it. I'll try to snap a pic tomorrow if i have a chance. Google also has extreme and pretty mild cases on it, just look up fowl pox. https://www.bing.com/images/search?...08032401056858518&selectedIndex=16&ajaxhist=0

 

[BREKEN]

I would say it started in October/November and is finishing up now. We still had skeeters flying around at that point.

I felt like mine really got over it after 2 to 3 months. But only 1 of my girls started to lay again before winter. Now no one laying but hoping by spring everyone is back to usual.

 

[HortaChickenist]

They started showing signs last week of December and given our warm winter 2016-2017 here so far in Jax I'm still seeing sqeeters flying around. I'm going to be putting a bug zapper next to the coop. As of this morning I'm keeping everything spotless, daily cleaning of water supply adding iodine and cleaning the nesting boxes and switching out bedding once a week, spraying Oxine on floors and walls. The girls seem to be weathering the storm, no super bad lesions and egg production is still at 15-21 per day for my 22. Jersey Giants seem to not be showing any signs like the RIR...God Bless the Jersey Giants...I love this breed!!! Super friendly and apparently tough as nails so far.

 

[HortaChickenist]

Sorry for the delay...Holidays and extra time consuming biosecurity measures already tripling my busy schedule. Here's a pic and if you notice the bottom of the waffle you can see the black crusty tip. This is the worst of my girls and I'm hoping it doesn't get too more advanced. My take is if you have mosquitoes....vaccinate. In my case it would have saved me a ton of extra work.

 

[Tillicans]

Sorry for the delay...Holidays and extra time consuming biosecurity measures already tripling my busy schedule. Here's a pic and if you notice the bottom of the waffle you can see the black crusty tip. This is the worst of my girls and I'm hoping it doesn't get too more advanced. My take is if you have mosquitoes....vaccinate. In my case it would have saved me a ton of extra work.

Don't delay take her to an avian vet.

 

[BeachMomma]

Dry fowl pox is manageable, wet pox is the more dangerous.
Keeping everything clean will help them recover comfortably and help you spot anything new. The only thing you can really do for dry pox is provide some probiotics in fresh water daily for about a wk so it'll help boost em up. (Nothing else can be added to the water when you're using the probiotics.)
It'll run it's course in about 6-8 wks.

 

[HortaChickenist]

I'm using iodine in the water, wondering if you can add the probiotics to that or vitamin supplements along with the iodine? Their still laying well so I'm crossing my fingers

 

[BREKEN]

I'm using iodine in the water, wondering if you can add the probiotics to that or vitamin supplements along with the iodine? Their still laying well so I'm crossing my fingers

What about two water bowls? hopefully they will drink from each one through the day.

 

[FridayYet]

When mine had dry pox, I really didn't do anything different. I maintained my normal cleaning routine, made sure everyone had fresh food and water (like usual) and maybe gave them scrambled eggs a little more often. I think I did sprinkle some probiotics on their treats once or twice.

It made it's way through the flock, some spotted worse then others and were a bit lethargic for a while, then they came out of it and were fine.

A little more worry, but not really any more work.

 

[BREKEN]

When mine had dry pox, I really didn't do anything different. I maintained my normal cleaning routine, made sure everyone had fresh food and water (like usual) and maybe gave them scrambled eggs a little more often. I think I did sprinkle some probiotics on their treats once or twice.

It made it's way through the flock, some spotted worse then others and were a bit lethargic for a while, then they came out of it and were fine.

A little more worry, but not really any more work.

Did they ever stop laying for you?