Fowl Pox

[marynollie]

Does anyone else know anything about the fowl pox? It’s slowly running through mine.

 

[Eggcessive]

Welcome to BYC. Yes that looks like the dry form of fowl pox, a virus spread by mosquitoes. Are you in a southern or tropical area? Pox scabs usually break out and last a few weeks to a month. Do not disturb those scabs, but some use Betadine or povidone iodine to pain the scabs and help them dry up. Dried scabs when fallen and turn to powder, remain infectious when inhaled. There is a fowl pox vaccine available online for those not yet exposed. Most chickens survive as long as they can see their food and water. There is a wet type of pox that causes yellow gunk inside the beak, and that type is more serious. Here is some reading:
https://the-chicken-chick.com/fowl-pox-prevention-treatmen/

http://extension.msstate.edu/publications/fowl-pox-backyard-flocks

 

[marynollie]

Welcome to BYC. Yes that looks like the dry form of fowl pox, a virus spread by mosquitoes. Are you in a southern or tropical area? Pox scabs usually break out and last a few weeks to a month. Do not disturb those scabs, but some use Betadine or povidone iodine to pain the scabs and help them dry up. Dried scabs when fallen and turn to powder, remain infectious when inhaled. There is a fowl pox vaccine available online for those not yet exposed. Most chickens survive as long as they can see their food and water. There is a wet type of pox that causes yellow gunk inside the beak, and that type is more serious. Here is some reading:
https://the-chicken-chick.com/fowl-pox-prevention-treatmen/

http://extension.msstate.edu/publications/fowl-pox-backyard-flocks

I’m in Florida and my rooster here fought with another and had open wounds for a day before I came home to find them both injured. Ricky Rooster, here, was my first and worst case until recently. One of my Polish has both eyes swollen shut. I have quarantined each one of them as I find it on them but I guess it’s always too late. Another always pops up with it again. I’ve done the betadine to each one I have found.

 

[dawg53]

Poor roo. That's a bad case of fowl pox, but he'll be fine in time.
Birds with fowl pox will be immune to the fowl pox virus strain after they get over it. If hens get it, eggs are safe to eat.