Growths(?) on chicken's comb

[RAbel1975]

Ive noticed that one of my chickens has several dark/black spots on her comb. The one at the front, has turned into a slow growing, raised growth. Does anyone have any ideas or can help?

 

[Wyorp Rock]

Ive noticed that one of my chickens has several dark/black spots on her comb. The one at the front, has turned into a slow growing, raised growth. Does anyone have any ideas or can help?
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Watch to see if she's sticking her beak through fencing and continually irritating the place on her beak.

It could be a Papilloma, could be from another hen picking at her, hard to know.

The one on the comb looks similar to a pecking scab.

If she were mine and is acting normal/eating/drinking and active, I'd just monitor those places to see if they get better, worse or stay the same.

 

[RAbel1975]

Thanks for the ideas. I don't think they are from pecking or the fence. The front one started about a month ago. I assumed it was from pecking. During that month though, it became raised. Just over the past week, week-and-a-half, the one on the back of the comb and the one on the side showed up. I went to our general store today. They said they looked like sticktights, but I haven't seen a flea on the entire flock. I got some VetRX to try internally and externally. I also got some scarlet oil in case the VetRX doesn't seem to help.

The chicken's nostril worries me too. I'm not sure why, but the hole is pretty enlarged.

Russell

 

[Wyorp Rock]

Thanks for the ideas. I don't think they are from pecking or the fence. The front one started about a month ago. I assumed it was from pecking. During that month though, it became raised. Just over the past week, week-and-a-half, the one on the back of the comb and the one on the side showed up. I went to our general store today. They said they looked like sticktights, but I haven't seen a flea on the entire flock. I got some VetRX to try internally and externally. I also got some scarlet oil in case the VetRX doesn't seem to help.

The chicken's nostril worries me too. I'm not sure why, but the hole is pretty enlarged.

Russell

Doesn't look like Sticktight fleas to me. See the photos in this thread.
https://www.backyardchickens.com/th...as-echidnophaga-gallinacea-on-a-duck.1283862/

Possibly the place on the beak is a Papilloma if it's increasing in size.
I'd still watch to see if she's sticking her beak through wire fencing reaching for bugs or grass, etc.

Comb, it still looks like injury. I'd monitor.