My rooster has favus! Help Please!

[speckledhen]

That is the late, great Hawkeye just after we brought him home. Poor thing must have thought he'd gone to heaven after the way he was being cared (or not) for in his previous home. He was a different rooster within a month.

 

[TheSpiceGirls]

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What is he? I'm guessing Barred Rocks but could also be a Cuckoo Marans.

 

[speckledhen]

Hawkeye was a hatchery BR. Poor guy was penned with a turkey and had missing comb parts, as you can see in the photo. Favus or other fungal infections are probably fairly common in mucky pen conditions like he was living in. I don't want to hijack this person's thread, but if you want to read a little about Hawkeye's "renovation", check out this thread: https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=211673&p=1

Will check back for pictures posted of the rooster in question.

 

[Chicken0Boy]

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Your not hijacking!

I'm not a mean person,

I like to see other stories and it is amazing that a person can do so little to help so much! Oh, and I don't think my roo has Favus now!

So, its fine. He is lloking much better... Thanks for all the help you guys.

 

[speckledhen]

Well, that's good! In winter, they get dry combs sometimes. Rubbing with a little veg oil helps.

 

[Chicken0Boy]

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I am definatly going to rub the vegtable oil on his comb and wattles tomorrow! Thanks.

 

[Three Cedars Silkies]

I lost a bantam cochin hen to favus a couple of years ago. No one else in the coop got it and they weren't in moist conditions. I never could figure it out but there was no doubt what it was. I did everything in my power to cure it but couldn't.

Early intervention is key, I believe.

 

[speckledhen]

Three Cedars, no idea why she'd have it. Sometimes, their ailments are just complete mysteries. Usually, favus will spread to others in the flock. Are you positive that's what she had? There are other fungal conditions like canker, but I've never heard of a bird actually dying from favus. Canker will kill and is around the mouth and in the throat, but it's also contagious.

 

[Three Cedars Silkies]

She didn't have anything around her mouth. Just skin that looked 1000 years old with big white flakes. She gradually lost weight and failed to thrive which is probably what killed her...not the favus.

I used all kinds of antifungals as soon as I noticed it and treated her for about 3 weeks before she succumbed. I looked all over the internet for anything else that it might be and didn't see anything.

 

[speckledhen]

No idea why she passed away. Sometimes you just never know. Could be she had a fungal infection in addition to something else being wrong, or maybe she developed it because her immune system was already weak, hard to say.