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Here is a handy symptom chart I found
http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/ps044#TABLE_1 and treatment
http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/ps044
I hope your girl pulls through!
The only symptoms I have noticed so far are:
- White/yellow mucous and cheese like substance on her tongue and the roof of her mouth.
- Difficulty eating/drinking, she tries but it seems to get caught, making me think there are more spots of gunk in her throat.
- Odd breathing, she puffs her neck out just below her beak when she breaths, which also makes me believe she has gunk in her throat where I can't clean it out.
- Occasionally she tries to spit the gunky stuff out, it looks a bit like she's tasted something bad and might vomit.
- Her crop feels near empty, I have offered her some softer food but she's not taking it thus far.
She's also not laying, but I think that's a symptom of being broody for the past two weeks, which may have saved my other birds from contracting it, since she wasn't sleeping on the roost with them. She's only come out of the coop on her own for the past couple days.
I had read a few posts here suggesting an iodine wash to help sanitize the throat, cleaning what can be reached out with a q-tip and hoping for the best. BF was wondering is perhaps a peroxide wash might benefit her by cleaning out the lesions.
I'm guessing I should vaccinate the others to be safe. Where would I get vaccinations for pox?
Maybe you can help suck out the gunk with an infant aspirator? Looks like you can order vaccines from a hatchery
http://www.mcmurrayhatchery.com/pox_vaccine.html Hope it helps!