@coach723 can you help here please?
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I have not dealt with we pox, only dry. IF that is what it is, there is no treatment other than supportive care. Do you have pictures of the second chick? In one of your pictures it looks like there are veins in the growth? (I marked it below). Very hard to tell, but if that is the case then it could be a tumorous growth rather than pox. Is vet care an option for you? Another possibility is a sinus infection due to a respiratory virus, or other cause. But I don't see any facial swelling. A link with some pictures of wet pox for comparison:
https://www.backyardchickens.com/ar...ng-graphic-pictures-under-construction.47704/
This is a case where I think a vet would be the best option, to narrow it down. If it's tumerous then digging at it could cause significant bleeding, and with the difficulty breathing, I would want to know.
This is the picture where I thought I could maybe see veins:
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Given where you live, and if you have mosquitoes, there's a good chance this is fowl pox. It looks much worse than it is. You can treat it with iodine which will help dry it up, making it clear up more quickly. But, as @coach723 says, there is no cure, although future chicks could be vaccinated against it, if I remember correctly and am not thinking of something else.
You can try to prevent other chickens from getting it by mitigating the mosquito problem. Good news is this chicken will be resistant to future attacks.
Yes, it possibly could. They can grow fast or slow. I recently lost a beloved dog to bone cancer. Her mass was smaller than a golf ball when found and larger than a grapefruit in 4 weeks. It may not be a tumor, but I would want to rule it out before doing anything to it. I hope your vet friend is able to help.Yes there is some veins there, but a tumor could have grown this quickly within a weeks time?
I am purchasing the fowl pox vaccine and going to vaccine everyone without symptoms just in case. Even this isn't fowl pox, this scare has been a good motivator to get everyone in check.
I'll update you guys on her progress in case anyone in the future may use this thread. Hopefully, I manage to have her recover.
Thanks again for all the advice and messages. It means a lot, I'm the only person I know where I live that is into chickens, so I don't have anyone to ask for help and I'm a newbie.
How are things going????