Fowl Pox info needed....

[cmartin593]

I have a 7month old bantam that appears to have been burnt, I researched disease in poultry and found a photo of fowl pox. I need to know what I can do to cure this, if possible, and does the disease affect the eggs?

 

[chicmom]

Fowl pox comes from mosquitos that bit your chickens. It just has to run its course, and you can dab a little bit of iodine on some of the black marks which will help dry it up. Most chickens recover. Ocasionally it can kill a chicken, but not very often.

Isolate the affected chicken if you can, because once he has an outbreak, he can transmit it to the flock.

I'm not a vet or anything, but I think that's pretty accurate.

Hope this helps and good luck,
Sharon