New member Needs HELP 3 weeks chick with FOWL POX

[kittiedoll]

This is my second year with 5 hens, two Easter Egger, two White Leghorn, and one Barred Rock. They are our pet and fresh eggs. I am a housewife with a homestead dream. I came across this community when researching fowl pox on Google.

My Barred Rock just hatched 2 babies that are now 3 weeks old and one of them has fowl pox.
The infected chick looks like Lentil from @speethechicken post. I am wondering how are the chicks doing now. Please help

 

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[Wyorp Rock]

Welcome To BYC

If you can post some photos, those may be helpful.

If it's Dry form Fowl Pox, usually that will resolve on it's own in several weeks.
Sometimes it can become more severe.

Is your chick eating/drinking and active?

 

[PippinTheChicken]

Welcome! Sorry about your chick, I will tag some big brains...
(Sorry I always tag you people but I habe no idea who else to tag)
@Eggcessive @Wyorp Rock

 

[kittiedoll]

Are her nostrils open to breathe through? That can be an issue. Poor chick.

The lesions cover both side of the nostrils, and I tried to look closely but cannot tell if they are completely obstructing her from breathing. However, she seems to be running around eating and scratching like normal. I want to try to remove it to help her breathe better but afraid I would do more harm than help. It bleeds here and there because she keeps scratching them. I clean the lesions with Vetericyn Plus and apply the plain Neosporin.

 

[kittiedoll]

I would agree. If she looks good, leave it. I tend to not be too aggressive with treatments, because you can cause more problems. Let us know how she gets along.

I now see where the mosquitos were breeding, in the water nipple cups! Then they fly right into the coop Emptying it daily from now on and there is no standing water around our house.

The older hens all have recovered from the fowl pox few days before these little one hatched. I thought I have cleaned out the coop and the run well enough smh.

I will post more pictures of her later on this week...as she gets better I wish I can find pictures of chicks that have recovered from fowl pox here. It would give me hopes and better expectations as to the aftermath as well. Thank you again!

 

[janiedoe]

Hi, welcome to BYC! I haven't had to deal with chicken pox in a small chick, so I can't offer any advice. Best of luck!

 

[Eggcessive]

Pox is much harder in young chicks than grown chickens because the scabs are usually on the face around eyes and nostrils. If eyes are affected as Lentil chick’s is, apply a small dab of Terramycin eye ointment or plain Neosporin Ointment antibiotic ointment to the eyes twice a day. Hand feed it if it cannot see food or water. Watery mush feed, cooked egg, or baby bird feed is good. Pox lasts about 3 weeks.

 

[kittiedoll]

Thank you for your response Wyorp Rock.

It looks like a dry fowl pox. I am worry about the one that's near her eye and her beak.
She is eating, drinking and running around scratching like normal. She sleeps inside the house at night and out with her mom during the day. I have been cleaning and putting ointment on them before bed daily.

 

[kittiedoll]

Pox is much harder in young chicks than grown chickens because the scabs are usually on the face around eyes and nostrils. If eyes are affected as Lentil chick’s is, apply a small dab of Terramycin eye ointment or plain Neosporin Ointment antibiotic ointment to the eyes twice a day. Hand feed it if it cannot see food or water. Watery mush feed, cooked egg, or baby bird feed is good. Pox lasts about 3 weeks.

Thank you Eggcessive. I will do