Is he sick or an injury?

Caralemasters

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He acts fine. I am new to chickens. Forst day he had blood on his beak now it looks like this. Should I be concerned? Should I separate him from the ladies?
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They are black spots. We are in Texas so definitely have Mosquitos, gotten better this last week with the cool weather.
 
It looks like fowl pox, a virus carried by mosquitoes that lasts about a month. Do you have mosquitoes out right now? Sometimes it is hard to tell pox from peck wounds. But it looks like pox to me. Here is some info:
https://the-chicken-chick.com/fowl-pox-prevention-treatmen/
We are in Texas I looked up the link. He may have been vaccinated for fowl pox we are checking with his breeder. I hope he has been. Now that I know there is a vaccine I am looking into getting ally chickens don
 

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