Fowl Pox?

[dannagm216]

We started with 10 baby chicks the day before Easter. We lost one hen to what we attributed to the heatwave going on in Texas in July. We returned today from an overnight trip to find 4 hens with the symptoms shown in the attached picture. (This one was the worst) Additionally, one of our hens was dead. She had no visible scabs or injuries. From what I've been able to read on the internet I am leaning toward an outbreak of Fowl Pox, but I'm confused by the dead chicken. Is it possible for some chickens to have the outward symptoms of dry Fowl Pox at the same time another in the same flock has no outward symptoms but possibly be suffering from wet Fowl Pox? I can't keep losing my chickies!

 

[Wyorp Rock]

It does look like the hen in the photo has Fowl Pox. This will usually resolve over the course of several weeks.
https://the-chicken-chick.com/fowl-pox-prevention-treatmen/

A bird that has Wet Fowl Pox would have symptoms. You would have seen lesions.
So likely the hen you found dead died from?! Who knows. If you still have the body, then a necropsy would give you answers.

 

[msteffa]

It does look like the hen in the photo has Fowl Pox. This will usually resolve over the course of several weeks.
https://the-chicken-chick.com/fowl-pox-prevention-treatmen/

A bird that has Wet Fowl Pox would have symptoms. You would have seen lesions.
So likely the hen you found dead died from?! Who knows. If you still have the body, then a necropsy would give you answers.

Fowl Pox is like a really bad flu for us. It wears on them greatly. If they have something else going on it can compound that. This hen has fowl pox. Vitamins and immuno-boosting will help her through it after several weeks (4-6), but it also about age and other chicken environment situations. The white pox that fall off are full of the microbes still to be transmitted to other chickens, as well as in common feeders and waterers. Highly transmitted. Supposedly once they get it they are immune in the future like our "chicken pox". Keep everyone healthy and boosted with all those same things our parents gave us as kids (hopefully).