*Pics* Wet Pox or Respiratory Disease? Help Please..

[thailand]

I've checked the roosters eyes this morning and they are completely clear. No bubbles. The whites of his eyes are showing quite a bit so perhaps this is what you were seeing? Don't know if that means he's sick or not. But, while checking his eyes I did notice that today he now has a couple of clear/slightly yellowish blisters on his comb that definitely were not there yesterday.....fowl pox right?

This is the same blister looking things that the sick hen has had. The reason this has all thrown me as far as diagnosis is because the blisters have been so few compared to other years with fowl pox outbreaks.

Dawg - would you say that this is most likely just fowl pox then with both chickens? So appreciate your wisdom, thanks

 

[dawg53]

Tough to say if it's fowl pox Angela, could be a mild strain. I'm going to ask someone else to take a look at all the the pics you posted. She has a sharper eye for fowl pox in photos than I do.

 

[casportpony]

I had a couple start out with bumps like those, but they did get worse and turned into the more classic looking warts/bumps. I agree with Dawg, if it is pox, it's a mild case.

-Kathy

 

[dawg53]

Kathy, she stated that her birds had fowl pox last year. Her birds would be immune to that particular strain. Perhaps she's dealing with canary or pigeon pox, not sure. There was also a dusty coop that has since been refurbished. I'm wondering if it was an environmental issue.
Can you take a look at the pics on page one and see if it looks like pox to you please? There was sneezing, coughing and mucus involved with the hen.

 

[Eggcessive]

The pictures in your first post definitely look like dry fowl pox to me. The other pictures could be too, but they are not as easy for me. I have 1 or 2 each year that will get dry pox, but just a single pox on the comb. It is possible for your chickens to get it this year if they didn't have it last year--it is spread by mosquitoes, and is spread within the flock by mosquitoes from one chicken to another. But this pox looks fairly mild. I would just keep doing the E-Mycin since it seems to be working, and looking inside the beaks of the sick ones for any plaques. Casportpony has the real experience with wet pox here.

 

[casportpony]

I'm not convinced that it's pox, but my experience is limited to the ~50 of mine that came down with it last year. FWIW, none of mine with pox were sneezing or had mucus in their mouths, even when they had the wet form. Those with the wet form had pus, that's it.

-Kathy