Send your vet an e-mail with your questions and give her a day or so to get back to you. A dear friend of mine is an emergency vet, and she runs ragged for hours (sometimes days) on end, then will suddenly have a slow period when she actually gets to breathe. That's when she catches up on e-mails. I'll bet your vet is no different and will appreciate the chance to answer your questions when she has the time to respond properly.
Hi. Thanks for the information and the link. They may well be a lipomas. She doesn't really eat seeds though apart from a bit of scratch once in a while. Unfortunately I wasn't prescribed enough denagard to treat the whole flock only her so to treat her I will have to separate her. I can do this as the grow out pen is still in situ within the run so she isn't completely separate. I can do this for the next week and see how she is. She is perfectly fine in all other respects so I will do this and just see how she goes.Greeting CCUK,
You can treat the water for all of the flock to drink. Denagard (Tiamulin Hydrogen Fumarate) has no egg withdrawal. However, it has a terrible taste, so you should mix some apple juice concentrate into the water. I use 1/2 can of apple or apple and berry frozen concentrate.
It is possible to use it as a drench, but, it isn't recommended. This medication can be dangerous without proper dilution in water!
It is interesting that your vet identified the lesions as abscess. An abscess usually occurs when there has been an injury that has become infected, then sealed in by the skin. The infection then fills the site with pus.
You describe a lack of pus and instead point out the "yellow meaty chunky nastiness, no smell". Abscess are usually warm/hot to touch, and painful, some have a smelly pus. The chicken will also feel sickly.
Your chicken has too many to be abscess from injury, although it is possible for feather follicles to get infected. However, the lump under her eye, is suspicious. There is not evidence of pecking injury, and that is a featherless area of skin.
Since the chicken is acting normally, it may be some type of fatty tumor. All I know is what I have read. But, here is some more information on the condition. You can decide for yourself, if these are abscess or something else. Your description of the material inside the growth you removed, is also described in the following article.
https://wagwalking.com/bird/condition/lipomas-
These are my thoughts on your chicken's health issue. I hope I have been helpful.
God Bless
Hi. Thanks for the information and the link. They may well be a lipomas. She doesn't really eat seeds though apart from a bit of scratch once in a while. Unfortunately I wasn't prescribed enough denagard to treat the whole flock only her so to treat her I will have to separate her. I can do this as the grow out pen is still in situ within the run so she isn't completely separate. I can do this for the next week and see how she is. She is perfectly fine in all other respects so I will do this and just see how she goes.Greeting CCUK,
You can treat the water for all of the flock to drink. Denagard (Tiamulin Hydrogen Fumarate) has no egg withdrawal. However, it has a terrible taste, so you should mix some apple juice concentrate into the water. I use 1/2 can of apple or apple and berry frozen concentrate.
It is possible to use it as a drench, but, it isn't recommended. This medication can be dangerous without proper dilution in water!
It is interesting that your vet identified the lesions as abscess. An abscess usually occurs when there has been an injury that has become infected, then sealed in by the skin. The infection then fills the site with pus.
You describe a lack of pus and instead point out the "yellow meaty chunky nastiness, no smell". Abscess are usually warm/hot to touch, and painful, some have a smelly pus. The chicken will also feel sickly.
Your chicken has too many to be abscess from injury, although it is possible for feather follicles to get infected. However, the lump under her eye, is suspicious. There is not evidence of pecking injury, and that is a featherless area of skin.
Since the chicken is acting normally, it may be some type of fatty tumor. All I know is what I have read. But, here is some more information on the condition. You can decide for yourself, if these are abscess or something else. Your description of the material inside the growth you removed, is also described in the following article.
https://wagwalking.com/bird/condition/lipomas-
These are my thoughts on your chicken's health issue. I hope I have been helpful.
God Bless
Thanks. It was crazy busy in there. I will phone her on Monday and ask her those questions. I think had I got a normal appointment I would have had more time. She does come recommended from a few people that I know that keep chickens. Just a side note, there seems to be alot of gypsy horses being mistreated and abandoned in my area. She is taking all these horses on and is treating them and trying to rehome them. Her heart is definitely in the right place!
I just had a look on a online datasheet for denagard. It says that it is also for treating staphylococcus. Whether she thinks that the bacterial infection is the same, I don't know. I'll phone her again on Monday and check before I start anything. I'm pretty sure it isn't mycoplasma. There are no symptoms and without a blood test or poo test she wouldn't know.
Hi @Shadrach. I just posted a link on the UK member thread.Those tumor like things look really nasty CCUK. I hope you can get them sorted.
I wondered if you would provide an address/name/link to the vet you used given just finding a vet who will see chickens is hard enough let alone one who knows what a chicken looks like.
Oh - that brings up another good idea ... take in a poo sample. Getting that evaluated should shed some light on the problem.
