Pimple??

elliandfritz

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This guy is a Cochin bantam roo about 8-10 months old. He lives in a mixed flock and it fed layer crumbles due to living with layers. This popped up within this week. It is very hard, not hot, and seems to cause minimal pain. I used a needle to try to find a way to pop it and it is firm as can be. What is this?
 
Update: I took a needle to it to detach it and used tweezers to pull it out. This is so weird!
 

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Thanks y’all! Little man is looking somewhat better. Swelling immediately went down drastically within minutes of removing it.
The wound was still strange after removing it. I explored it carefully to make sure that nothing was left. In the bottom and along the sides, it was unbroken skin with no bleeding. It appeared to just be a pit! I cleaned out the pocket with peroxide followed by warm water followed by cool water to reduce the swelling. It shrunk down a good bit right away and allowed the feathers to exit the skin again.

This morning, the swelling was a little more than I expected due to how much it went down last night. It still looks agitated and now has some very light bleeding that caused a scab to build at the bottom of the pocket. I flushed the pocket again and applied more ointment. I will probably do a warm compress tonight to loosed the area up to make sure that no small parts are remaining that are continuing to agitate his skin.

As for the object removed, I looked at closely last night and am still stumped.

I see two potential options:

1) He got a peck or small wound. He then laid down or took a dust bath in the coop and got pine shavings stuck to or in the wound. They then pestered and agitated the skin and caused the swelling. I have this as a potential cause because I did see some small yellow particles in the removed piece that resembled shavings.

2) Skin lesion or tumor that developed in an area with only a small amount of extra skin so it became enveloped in comb-type skin which then became agitated. The only reason I thought that might be possible is due to the really hard nature of the thing removed and the clear margins that it came out with naturally.


My gut instinct thinks it’s likely the first option.

I don’t believe it is a tick due to the time of year and they and their beddings is treated for fleas/ticks/mites every two weeks. It could still be a possibility but it did not look like a tick head to me.
 

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