"Louisiana "La-yers" Peeps"

[LemonMeringue]

http://animalscience.ucdavis.edu/Avian/pfs32.htm

This is interesting reading. The fact page that is in a link in the article is just as fascinating to me.

 

[topdog24]

So its all in the family. It was 26 eggs I started with not 27 my mistake. Pam

thats like me thinking we hatched 16 until i sold 10 and still had 7

 

[justoldbobo2]

thats like me thinking we hatched 16 until i sold 10 and still had 7

I've had this happen too. Guess they spontaneously multiplied. Or I didn't get a good count in the beginning lol

 

[Ron Skekel]

It's been a long time since I've had a suspected chicken ailment, so I'm due. :

Anyway, it's hard to tell but my rooster's comb is dripping blood. He's had those black spots for a few months; I gave him a good look last week and they appear to be on his comb, and not a parasite. I've seen the hens picking them off (he didn't seem to mind) so I'm sure that's what happened today.

Thoughts?

Black spots are foul pox from Mosquitos . The blood if at the top of comb could be foul pox the black scabes are blood the comb bleeds and you get big thick black crusty bumps on the tip of the comb. If you catch it early when it looks like warts on the comb you can get rid of it fast. My natural healing save cleared it faster the neosporin. Pam

 

[Ron Skekel]

Haha, probably. They have sand in the run and they ALL ran out looking like that.

I don't think it's just dried blood. Here it is a few months ago, before they started picking it all the time.

See the white looking spots on his comb. I noticed when mine had it the combs of the ones that got it next had the white spots, then a wart , then full born dry pox when it would show up around the eye it would become wet pox. This time your not a hypochondriac. LMAO!

 

[campingshaws]

See the white looking spots on his comb. I noticed when mine had it the combs of the ones that got it next had the white spots, then a wart , then full born dry pox when it would show up around the eye it would become wet pox. This time your not a hypochondriac. LMAO!

He's already had fowl pox. He's had those little spots before, during, and after. I thought they were the stock-tight fleas? But now I'm wondering if it's something fungal. I've googled and searched, but no luck.

 

[Cody A]

Camping, did this thread come up in your searching for pox a month or so ago.
https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/692971/fowl-pox

 

[campingshaws]

Camping, did this thread come up in your searching for pox a month or so ago.
https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/692971/fowl-pox

Thanks, Cody, I haven't seen that before. I guess I'll pick up some blu-kote and keep him slathered in it for awhile. I was already considering coating him in Vaseline, just in case it was something I could smother.

 

[Ron Skekel]

He's already had fowl pox. He's had those little spots before, during, and after. I thought they were the stock-tight fleas? But now I'm wondering if it's something fungal. I've googled and searched, but no luck.

Pox comes from mosiquitoes. Maybe your diagnois before was wrong. Pam

 

[Ron Skekel]

Thanks, Cody, I haven't seen that before. I guess I'll pick up some blu-kote and keep him slathered in it for awhile. I was already considering coating him in Vaseline, just in case it was something I could smother.

I don't like petroleum products. I use unrefined shea butter.It works better and faster.Pam