Hen not well

[nikif]

Does anybody know what this is?

 

[ValerieLovesChickens]

Does anybody know what this is?

Mine didn't get this bad, but it looks like fowlpox, and the eye area is infected and swollen. Use some neosporin WITHOUT pain medication in it. Use a cotton swab to very very gently apply it. Isolate this chicken from the flock, it is VERY contagious.

 

[Laura_BelgianBantams_63]

Mhm. Fowl pox. Once one of my Belgians Bantams had it bad, couldn't open her eye, as @ValerieLovesChickens said, very contagious. The vet gave me Ilium Opticin. It was prescription, so I don't know if you can just buy it. Ring the vet and ask for it if they have it where you are, or maybe they will give you something similar but different. I had to apply the cream sparingly morning and night on her lesions on her face, wattles and comb. Worked like a dream! Amazing, the little Belgian came better between 2-3 days! The scabs just fell off! If you like, here are some attached pictures:

Tango (my Belgian bantam) with fowl pox, poor thing (sorry for bad quality pic)

And here is the treatment (again...bad quality pic sorry!)

Hope this helps! ❤

 

[ValerieLovesChickens]

Mhm. Fowl pox. Once one of my Belgians Bantams had it bad, couldn't open her eye, as @ValerieLovesChickens said, very contagious. The vet gave me Ilium Opticin. It was prescription, so I don't know if you can just buy it. Ring the vet and ask for it if they have it where you are, or maybe they will give you something similar but different. I had to apply the cream sparingly morning and night on her lesions on her face, wattles and comb. Worked like a dream! Amazing, the little Belgian came better between 2-3 days! The scabs just fell off! If you like, here are some attached pictures:

Tango (my Belgian bantam) with fowl pox, poor thing (sorry for bad quality pic)
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And here is the treatment (again...bad quality pic sorry!)
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Hope this helps! ❤

Oh I'm so glad you posted this, Siren my poor girl is still not well and it's been 3.5 weeks she has suffered from the fowlpox. She broke out the worst of all. I will call our vet tomorrow and see if I can get this for her. She still has awful sores that just are refusing to heal up. Thank you!

 

[nikif]

Thank you!

 

[589205]

I agree that it looks a lot like fowlpox disease. It is highly contagious and there are 2 versions of it, the dry and the wet version. The main way to tell them apart is if there are sores in mouth, which would be indication that it's the wet version of fowlpox and I would highly recommend vet care or culling immediately if it is the wet version because the sores in the mouth can cause severe breathing problems if not treated right away. One thing you could try if it is the wet version is use listerine and qtips to pop/clean the sores out of mouth, otherwise on the other hand if it is the dry version, clean the sore areas up first and then put IODINE on them as often as able/needed to sterilize and dry out the sores so that they'll heal and scab over faster. Eventually they fall off and fade away.

 

[589205]

It also maybe could be an allergic reaction of some kind.

 

[589205]

Oh I'm so glad you posted this, Siren my poor girl is still not well and it's been 3.5 weeks she has suffered from the fowlpox. She broke out the worst of all. I will call our vet tomorrow and see if I can get this for her. She still has awful sores that just are refusing to heal up. Thank you!

Have you tried using iodine to treat the sores?

 

[ValerieLovesChickens]

Have you tried using iodine to treat the sores?

Yes, that was my first go to with this, as I have horses and keep a big jug on hand for emergencies. It worked great on all the others, except for Siren. She just kept breaking out, nonstop.

 

[ValerieLovesChickens]

I agree that it looks a lot like fowlpox disease. It is highly contagious and there are 2 versions of it, the dry and the wet version. The main way to tell them apart is if there are sores in mouth, which would be indication that it's the wet version of fowlpox and I would highly recommend vet care or culling immediately if it is the wet version because the sores in the mouth can cause severe breathing problems if not treated right away. One thing you could try if it is the wet version is use listerine and qtips to pop/clean the sores out of mouth, otherwise on the other hand if it is the dry version, clean the sore areas up first and then put IODINE on them as often as able/needed to sterilize and dry out the sores so that they'll heal and scab over faster. Eventually they fall off and fade away.

I myself, was able to completely isolate my rooster that had the wet and dry fowlpox. He had 3 sores in his mouth. I immediately caged him on the other side of our property, treated outside sores with iodine and the ones in his mouth with listerine twice a day. I put him on wet mash, smashed boiled eggs, fresh frozen spinach, and rooster booster. He survived and I didn't have to cull him. So please if you can, always give your animals a fighting chance over electing to immediately cull. One more note: NEVER pop the sores anywhere!! This spreads it even faster, and will send it right down the trachea. You want to dry them out, not pop them.