Fowl pox support, please??

[oakhavenmama]

Good advice from @Wyorp Rock on treatments. Fortunately pox lasts only 3 or so weeks, and there is no treatment. I would make sure that each one gets to drink and eat enough daily, especially if they have scabs around eyes or swollen eyelids. I would mix up a little bowl of wet chicken feed and a lot of water, some bits of scrambled egg, tuna, or canned cat food and offer as much to them as they will take. Of course if the eyes are not affected, they should eat and drink on their own. If any seem very sick, look into their beaks for any yellow plaques or material, which is wet fowl pox.

She is much worse yesterday and today. Eyes completely shut. I will give her some watered down cat food, yogurt and egg yolk. Giving her amoxicillin in water and tetracycline eye ointment. Thanks for you compassion and well wishes.

 

[Eggcessive]

Do you see any yellow patches inside her beak, not on the outside? I would try feeding her 3 times a day, holding food and water right up to her beak so that she knows it is there. Sorry that she is worse. Being temporarily blinded by pox is how many may lose the battle, since they can starve.

 

[oakhavenmama]

Yes, that is what seems to be happening. I don’t see any sores in her mouth at all. Will keep up the food and water. Thank you!

 

[oakhavenmama]

Do y’all think my hen has Coryza? A FB chicken group post said to open the eye and drain pus ball? She seems less swollen today but eyelids still mostly shut. Ginger, my other hen, is swelling up more around her eyes today too. Sigh.
In the good news department: Sylvia gobbled down scrambled egg and yogurt on her own today!! Hooray!!

 

[Wyorp Rock]

Doesn't look like Infectious Coryza to me unless you shared different photos with your friend?

 

[oakhavenmama]

No, somebody on the FB page shared a photo of his hens eye. It was swollen over shut. It did look different but I wondered if the pox could cause the coryza. Or if I needed to drain the pus out. Will share a new photo of her today.

 

[oakhavenmama]

 

[oakhavenmama]

Although Ginger has sores around her beak, neither appear to have lesions inside beak. Thankfully.

 

[Eggcessive]

It looks like fowl pox around her face and eyes, not coryza. The reason for applying Terramycin eye ointment inside eyes that is sometimes recommended, is that fowl pox can create a good environment for mycoplasma (MG) in the eyes. Let us know how they get along.

 

[oakhavenmama]

Thanks for looking and explaining. Plus she was scratching the sores and they were bleeding. Thought they might get infected. We are hanging in there!

what do you think about vaccinating my 8 week old chicks. No sign yet but vet at valley vet said it could be incubating.