HELP! Growth on Beak (Pictures Included)

AnnaCollins23

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One of my Wyandottes has developed a growth on her
beak. It seems like it happened overnight. I don't recall seeing any signs of it over the past couple days. I've never seen something like this and it really has me concerned. I rushed over to the local Co-op to see if they had any suggestions, and no one there had ever seen anything like this before either. It looks like it has caused her eye to be infected too.
My daughter and I got her out of the coop just now to take a closer look at it and put some ointment on it. It's rock hard, not soft - like I assumed it would be.
Can anyone help?
 

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Do some searches on n fowl pox or cancre here on BYC. Acidified copper sulfate helps I believe with boosts in nutrition like probiotics, electrolytes. It’s a virus and usually can correct itself or the bird fights it off. Isolate her from other birds. Open her mouth to be sure it’s not in her mouth or throat. Just comfort measures to help her along. Could try antibiotic ointment to help soothe or may try like Zovirax or anti cancre sore gel from target. Make sure no lidocaine or nova Caine numbing agent in the ingredients though. Birds don’t do well with ‘Caines’.
 
Poor thing. That looks awful. It looks to me like it might actually be coming from her nare? Could she have lodged something in there that got infected? Is an avian vet an option? If not, I wonder if you can somehow soften it, like with antibiotic ointment or sonething, and carefully remove it? This may not be a good idea, so I hope someone else helps. I don’t know what canker looks like, but that sounds like a reasonable possibility.
The eye bubbles offen accompany a respiratory illness, but forget which one. Mycoplasma Gallisepticum (MG) maybe?
 

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