Fowl pox

[Bebea]

What is the best way to treat fowlpox on grown hens?

 

[oldhenlikesdogs]

There's no treatment. It's a virus transmitted by mosquitoes. It will run it's course in 4-6 weeks. Just make sure those aren't peck wounds. I wouldn't mess with the scabs as they can spread it too.

 

[annaBsChick]

Be prepared for the rest of your chickens to get it too...it is highly contagious. Here is some good info on it if you'd like to read up on it - http://www.poultrydvm.com/condition/fowl-pox

 

[KLIL]

Thank you for posting this. I think my Cockerel might be getting this also. But he has only just become the only Cockerel I have after a fox attack so I will monitor him and see if it might have been him fighting with the others.