help! growth on combs and watles!

[king tail]

I have some pullets that have growths on their combs and their wattles and I don't know what the are. they started out as little bumps and they get bigger and bigger! and more keep coming! if a chicken pecks them they get one like that to. I don't have a pic yet but I will get one when I get home. I just want to know if they will be ok!

 

[Eggcessive]

Please post a picture of the chickens if you can. It could be fowl pox, a virus spread by mosquitoes that lasts around 3 weeks. Here is a link to read about it and here are pictures: https://www.backyardchickens.com/a/avian-pox-how-to-treat-your-chickens-for-avian-pox

 

[king tail]

these r the best i can get, she just wont stay still!!!!!!!!!! i got her and her sister at tractor supplies in march, they r white leg horns and they just started laying. i told u that in case it maters.

 

[Eggcessive]

It looks like fowl pox. Just make sure she is eating well. Sometimes they can get wet pox inside the beak which can be serious, but the dry pox usually clears up in 3-4 weeks. Some put iodine on the scabs to dry them up, but don't remove scabs since it will spread it. They are immune to that particular strain after having it. There is a vaccine for those in warm humid areas where mosquitoes are a problem, and for those who haven't had it.

 

[king tail]

ok, thanks. i will look in there beaks the next time i go out!

 

[king tail]

she is eating very well, i looked in her beak and it all looks good!

 

[Eggcessive]

I found a picture on the Cornell site that looks a little more similar to yours,and you can check some different ones out here: http://partnersah.vet.cornell.edu/avian-atlas/#/disease/Avian_Pox

 

[king tail]

ok thanks, i will check it out.