Is this a tumor or some type of disease?

[pwand]

I posted you a link. Did you look at?

 

[SCchickens2011]

I posted you a link. Did you look at?

yes i did and thank you , but it does not seem to be her issue, she is pretty darn healthy aside from the lump and now recently not eating well. the other hens have not picked on her at all which tells me she isn't emitting a weakness to them, and the lump aside from rapid growth does not appear to be an internal growth, meaning i do not see any symptoms that tell me it is inside her mouth or throat at all, just under the beak.

Mareks disease from what i read typically is "internal" tumors.

 

[pwand]

Image 21 under clinical signs looks a lot like it.
http://partnersah.vet.cornell.edu/avian-atlas/search/lesion/418

 

[SCchickens2011]

Image 21 under clinical signs looks a lot like it.
http://partnersah.vet.cornell.edu/avian-atlas/search/lesion/418

yes i guess it looks similar, but the description of the onset of the lump is stating "swollen wattles" hers aren't swollen, they are normal but pushed aside by the lump. i don't mean to say that it is wrong, just possibly not exactly the issue. I appreciate your research to find this link, i have also done alot of looking both on BYC and through web searches, and i have yet to see anything else that comes as close to a diagnosis. I do not see that she is exhibiting any other symptoms of fowl cholera or marecks disease. I only hope that none of my other birds wind up affected. I have decided that i will have her culled tomorrow, i just don't want her to suffer. However do you think that any eggs she may have laid could be affected by this? Are eggs ever affected/infected when a hen has issues like these?

 

[pwand]

I don't think eggs are affected for human consumption, however, if hatching some diseases are pasted on through the egg.

Can you send her body to be examined to find out what is wrong? At least that way you will know if its contagious within the flock.

Mareks can have external tumours. Different levels of it.

Is it hard as a rock or feel like fluidly. If fluidly it possibly could be busted.

 

[pwand]

Here's something else I came across. Avian Pox
Go to number 6 for a picture. http://www.talkphotography.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?t=270885

 

[SCchickens2011]

I don't think eggs are affected for human consumption, however, if hatching some diseases are pasted on through the egg.

Can you send her body to be examined to find out what is wrong? At least that way you will know if its contagious within the flock.

Mareks can have external tumours. Different levels of it.

Is it hard as a rock or feel like fluidly. If fluidly it possibly could be busted.

hard as a rock. i was thinking i could see if my vet wanted her for research but i think i will just bury her and leave her that dignity, i cannot cut into her, it would be different if it were just a bird, but my girls have names (thanks to my kids) so now it's like they are family. i will just have to watch the other girls carefully to make sure they don't start to show symptoms of anything, they have been extremely healthy since day one, except for one i posted about early on "sick chick" but she is completely fine now, has been for a long time thank God. i thank you for your help and input, but i think this is best for her.

 

[pwand]

Depending we're you live, in the US people have made reference the birds can be sent somewhere for a free post morderm to determine what the bird is dealing with. My concern is she contagious.

 

[SCchickens2011]

i just went out to feed them, i picked her up again, i was trying to look at it, and while touching it it felt warm, and there is a spot of red irritation on one side, so now i am not sure if it could just be a canker or infection of some type, generally tumors are not warm to the touch are they? warm to the touch usually indicates infection right? i don't want to cull her if it's an in fection but do not want to incur a vet bill on a $3 chicken, any advice on how to possibly aspirate or see if i get anything out of it without getting too involved or making it worse? even if it is avian pox there's no cure, just has to run it's course and they get better and never get it again, and while contagious you can't necessarily get rid of it. however all the pics on here of avian pox look like little chicken pox (no pun intended) on the comb and wattle areas, not humongous lumps like hers.

 

[pwand]

I don't know what to say, I'm only trying to help. Try a course of antibiotics, if its an infection, it may help.