Is this fowl pox? How to treat?

[Scoutson]

For either a few days or a week this rooster has developed yellowish growths on his cheek wattle and neck. The other side of his face doesn’t have anything on it. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

 

[Eggcessive]

Where are you located? Are there mosquitoes out? Do you have other roosters who may have pecked him or broke off any feathers around his head? Some of the bumps look like fowl pox, but the bumps could also be from pecking. Fowl pox is a virus carried by mosquitoes that lasts about a month and which most chickens recover from. Some may suffer secondary infections in the eye or on the skin, and wet fowl pox which causes cheesy plaques inside the beak and throat may be deadly.

 

[Scoutson]

I live in Maryland and haven’t seen any mosquitoes since July or September. The temperature has been in the 30s for a while now. We do have other roosters but this one tends to stay in the coop now that it’s cold.

 

[Eggcessive]

I would spend some time with them to see if he is being pecked or bullied. Has he molted recently? They can be weakened by a molt and can be an easy target. The biege bumps could be tiny abscesses. I would watch them. Vetericyn is good to spray on wounds. If you didn’t have any fowl pox back in the late summer or fall, this probably is not pox. Fallen pox scabs can remain in the environment, become powdery, and later when inhaled, can cause pox.

 

[Scoutson]

I would spend some time with them to see if he is being pecked or bullied. Has he molted recently? They can be weakened by a molt and can be an easy target. The biege bumps could be tiny abscesses. I would watch them. Vetericyn is good to spray on wounds. If you didn’t have any fowl pox back in the late summer or fall, this probably is not pox. Fallen pox scabs can remain in the environment, become powdery, and later when inhaled, can cause pox.

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I would spend some time with them to see if he is being pecked or bullied. Has he molted recently? They can be weakened by a molt and can be an easy target. The biege bumps could be tiny abscesses. I would watch them. Vetericyn is good to spray on wounds. If you didn’t have any fowl pox back in the late summer or fall, this probably is not pox. Fallen pox scabs can remain in the environment, become powdery, and later when inhaled, can cause pox.

I’ll be sure to do that, Everytime I’ve seen him he's been up on the roost. He hasn’t molted recently but there have been hens picking his neck feathers away that I just started treating. We haven’t had a case of fowl pox before as well.

 

[Eggcessive]

I would probably isolate him inside a dog crate or pen, so that you could watch his poops, check to see if he is eating and drinking, and feel of his crop to see if it is empty, full, hard, puffy, or doughy. Also look his skin over for any signs of lice or mites. Has he been wormed recently? If you have electrolytes, Poultry NutriDrench, or some gatorade, I would offer him some. It sounds like he may have been feeling a bit under the weather lately. An old towel or puppy pad under him would allow you to see if his droppings are normal or off.