Nasty Lump on Back of Head

[nikkifudge]

Lou Lou, a year old Leghorn and the favorite of my 4 chickens, molted then as she fluffed back out, developed a large lump on the back of her head just below her comb. It was bloody from the other girls pecking at it so I cleaned her up with peroxide/water mix and dosed her heavily with Euretromyicin for 5 days. Today is the fifth day. The lump died and her skin has pulled away. She has an open, non bleeding wound about the size of a quarter. I can lift her skin up at the edges of the wound. It does not seem to hurt her but the dead tissue looks like it needs to be removed. Her comb has developed 3 black spots at the back toward the wound. Her appetite is great. She rolls her head in the dirt which prevents the other chickens from pecking (dirt covered red color of wound). The sore now looks necrotic like an elderly persons bedsore. Anybody ever seen that? I'll take a photo and try to get it on here.

 

[chicmom]

That's a pretty big sore. Maybe it was a spider bite? I would put some of that Bluecote (sp) on it.