Help! What is going on with my hen?!

[azygous]

Have you parted the tiny head feathers where the bubbling is coming from to see if there's a puncture wound?

 

[indicadove]

Is it a tick?

Is it a tick?

Would that cause her eye to be infected?

 

[TheAlrightyGina]

Have you determined if this is s tick? It also looks like a BB. Is that a possibility?

Oh, wow. I really hope someone didn't shoot this poor chicken with a BB.

 

[bill3607]

Looks too perfectly round for a tick to me. And, really not the right color, or at least not the color of any blood inflated tick I have ever seen. They will usually be a lighter looking gray. However, there are different kinds of ticks, so could be one that is not in my neck of the woods.

 

[Weeg]

I agree it looks like a fully ingorged tick. I would not yank it out since the head of the tick can get left behind and cause way more problems there are a couple ways to make it back out #1 hot match (blow out first so it's hot but not on fire) #2 smother with Vaseline.

If you use tweezers and rubbing alcohol, you can pull it out by the head.
I would suggest pluck gin the feathers away, or clipping them away with finger nail clippers. Then, you can better see what it is. Once you get the feathers away, take another picture, and post it here. Then we can get a better idea of what it is.

 

[bill3607]

I agree, there is some very shiny ones on the internet so it's definitely possible it's a tick and not a BB
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I can only think of a few things that is nastier looking than that. The picture that the OP posted does resemble this a lot.

 

[MeowthLover_ThatsRight]

looks like a big tick to me. you better pull it out before it gets worse.

 

[indicadove]

Have you parted the tiny head feathers where the bubbling is coming from to see if there's a puncture wound?

Not yet, I'm headed back down there in a bit to investigate further... I'll let you know

 

[JacinLarkwell]

Would that cause her eye to be infected?

I'm nor sure honestly. But the grey limp looks like what our sheep get when they have a full tick hanging there

 

[The_Flock]

Would that cause her eye to be infected?

Ticks cause a few things. When there was one stuck in my dog for a while, then I pulled it out and that spot stayed like a swollen bump for a long time.