Is this fowl pox? *picture included*

[Denise661]

My chickens are getting this. I checked some and I seen about 8 of them with this. All of them un top of the beak. They are eating righr and drinking. Can someone tell me how to cure this. Will it go away? It seems its contagious. On this picture you could even see it has something on the eye too.

 

[LaynaDon95]

It seems to be, yes. Mine are just not getting over it. There is nothing you can do but eliminate standing water and try to decrease mosquitos around your house. You can give electrolytes as an immune booster. As long as they don't get it internally (wet pox) they should be fine.

 

[Denise661]

It seems to be, yes. Mine are just not getting over it. There is nothing you can do but eliminate standing water and try to decrease mosquitos around your house. You can give electrolytes as an immune booster. As long as they don't get it internally (wet pox) they should be fine.

Thank you very much! O.k so for wet pox I look for it inside of mouth? If I find them what do I do?
And how long Does it take so i could se results?
You didn't do anything, just eliminate standing water?
thanks

 

[LaynaDon95]

I don't think there is anything you can do if they get wet pox, but I could be wrong. I didn't read about that as much because mine never got it. The reason wet pox is so bad is because it gets on their tongues and the inside of their throats and makes it hard to eat, drink, and breathe. Dry pox is more common, so hopefully that's all your birds have/get. Since fowl pox is so slow spreading, it'll probably affect your flock for a few months, depending on how big you flock is.
I didn't do anything besides electrolytes in their water sometimes, and yes eliminate standing water. You don't need anywhere for mosquitoes to breed, as it's primarily spread by mosquitoes. It can also be spread by wild birds, but I don't think there is much you can do about that. Dry pox almost never kills, and if your birds are otherwise healthy they should be fine. It can kill chicks, but I just had a bantam hen raise 6 chicks. They were all immediately infected with it, as she had it when they hatched, and they are fine and finally healing up.

 

[Judy]

My experience with dry pox is, it just goes away on its own in about 3 weeks, rather suddenly. It's a virus so there isn't any treatment, other than maybe a little Neosporin or Betadine or something to prevent a secondary bacterial infection. Fortunately it leaves the chicken immune so it won't get it again. But here the lesions were always a flat black color, and mostly flat in shape as well. I'm not sure that is fowl pox.

In wet pox the lesions are in the throat or windpipe. Other than wipe out the mucus, there isn't much you can do. They can suffocate. Fortunately, it is relatively rare compared to dry pox.

Preventing fowl pox means eliminating mosquitoes, and probably other insects that carry it. Just about impossible, frankly, though of course eliminating standing water does cut down their numbers.

 

[welasharon]

THere has been some posts here lately about wet pox and getting the lesions out of the throat or mouth. You can do a search for that. This is what my fowl pox looked like this year. Big brownish bumps on or around the beak area. One of mine had it in the eyes. You may find that the beak has been eroded away under the bump when it falls off. Do not pick the bump off! The beak will slowly regrow and, so far, none of mine have had issues from that. There isn't really anything to do. It runs its course and then it is gone. Mostly you just have to make sure they don't stop eating and drinking or they will die from that.

 

[LaynaDon95]

My chickens did get black spot on the combs and wattles, but when is showed on their eyes and beaks it was usually a brownish color like in the picture. The chicks especially. Having no cmbs or wattles it was/is all on their eyes and beaks. Poor guys.

 

[welasharon]

My chickens did get black spot on the combs and wattles, but when is showed on their eyes and beaks it was usually a brownish color like in the picture. The chicks especially. Having no cmbs or wattles it was/is all on their eyes and beaks. Poor guys.

Yes it seems that way for me too. The ones who had combs fared better. My polish and breda had no where for it to go but the beaks I guess.

 

[LaynaDon95]

Yes it seems that way for me too. The ones who had combs fared better. My polish and breda had no where for it to go but the beaks I guess.

Did you have a problem with the beaks being soft afterwards? My for Barnevelder rooster had a huge pock (is that a word?) on his back and now everywhere the pock(?) was is soft with no hard beak "shell" left. Do you know if it'll regrow?

 

[Denise661]

Thanks y'all!
For standing water just the one gallon water feeder I put for them.
Its been really HOT!! 108+ SO maybe the times I mist the dirt was the problem? r