Injury or Growth? Odysseus of Ithaca's turn for a post

[Athenaeum]

1. Odyssey of Ithaca, or Ody for short, is a Black French Copper Maran that's about 10 weeks old as of today.

2. Ody resides within an enclosed run (with a coop) with the Diamond Duchess Penelope (her wife /jk), the Black Maran Deep Dark (formerly Deep Slate), the Blue Plymouth (?) Latios, the Rhode Red cross Latias (disabled and a year old), and the "preteens" Seven of Nine, Luke (formerly Leia), Duck-Duck-Goose (Duckie), and River Song (briefly known as the Doctor).

3. Ody has within the last twenty-four hours developed a bump on the beak that my husband says isn't actually coming from the beak, but where it connects with the flesh/skin. It made no changes after poking it with tweezers to see, on a horrible turn of luck, if it was a botfly larva.

4. The best images (the first two taken via my husband and the third taken by me, which led to the whole chicken examination).

5. Is this an injury? Or could it be a nightmare, a botfly making home on a sweet dumbass that just wants to chill with her chicken wife? Any help would be appreciated because I still have a long while to go before I can confidently say I know shit.

 

[Eggcessive]

That is a common place for an injury from poking a beak through metal fencing, a feeder, or a peck wound.

 

[Athenaeum]

That is a common place for an injury from poking a beak through metal fencing, a feeder, or a peck wound.

Okay, thank you! So, would you suggest we separate Ody? My husband, after I told him what you said, did point out that Ody, Penelope, Latios, and Deep all tend to peck at each other's beaks when scolding one another; the others all tend to not do that.

 

[Eggcessive]

No, I would not separate her. They need to get along. Separating would require reintegration which is not something you would want to have to do. Look around to see if she it running into fencing or poking her beak through it. Spend some time with them watching their behavior.

 

[Athenaeum]

No, I would not separate her. They need to get along. Separating would require reintegration which is not something you would want to have to do. Look around to see if she it running into fencing or poking her beak through it. Spend some time with them watching their behavior.

Fair point. Hopefully, the weather will permit me watching them; the storms we've been getting hit with has been preventing my observation times. I like watching them, and learning what quirks they have as well as seeing their actual dynamics, especially with them being with my disabled hen.