Growth/injury

[Essentiallyokanaganmom]

My 11 month old SL Wyandotte had a weird growth growing from right beneath her face that seemed to come out of nowhere (out the side covered in feathers, was not there a week ago), and we isolated her overnight and spent the day today cleaning and sanitizing the coop, the internet seems like maybe she has a tumor and that most tumors are caused by viral infections? However, today (while isolated) she picked or scratched it completely off...and now there is a huge hole in the side of her neck, bleeding off and on....despite this she is acting normally eating drinking, annoyed at being kept in....

So question, we originally thought we would probably have to cull her if its viral, but in reading more today it seems that tumors from viral infections almost always have other symtpoms (lathargic, lame, blind, wierd eating or pooping) and she has 0 of those symptoms. At this point we have not put anything on her neck. Would you try and save her, (hubby has a cold so we are in lockdown and cant go to a vet or buy anything to put on it but I do have hydrogyn peroxide and space to keep her isolated) or cull her because of desease/virus risk? New to chickens and didnt know they could even get tumors let alone survive ripping them off

Sorry no pictures as she ripped it off before we got a picture and hubby worried about virus threw the chunk in the fire.

 

[sourland]

If it were me, I would simply pack the open wound with antibiotic ointment and make sure that flies can not access it.

 

[Eggcessive]

Do you have a picture of the wound? If you could use some Vetericyn or similar wound spray, chlorhexidene, or plain saline (1/4 tsp per 8 ounce cup of water boiled and cooled) could be used twice a day to clean the wound. Then apply some plain antibiotic ointment on the wound after drying it. It is hard to know what to recommend by not being able to see what the growth looked like. There is no need to cull her. If she has some virus that causes a tumor, then the others have been exposed. Tumors in chickens are not always caused by viruses. I would not worry too much unless you see something new. If you could separate her in a dog cage so that the others do not peck or injure the wound. In a couple of days, if it is healing, BluKote spray would be good to spray on it when you let her loose.