Please help my BCMarans MiMi!

[aart]

Not sure I'd pull that scab off, looks bloody underneath.

 

[SurferchickinSB]

Not sure I'd pull that scab off, looks bloody underneath.

Thank you, that's what I thought and hopefully the other chickens won't see it and pull it off. Then it will look like a hole.

 

[rebrascora]

I'm inclined to think that if this lump is continuing to swell, there may well be infection building up underneath that scab, that needs to come out, so I would probably lift the scab clean out underneath and treat it with an antibiotic cream and keep her with the others in the pen, but in a little cage or dog crate, so that she is safe from pecking but still part of the flock.
My logic would be that.....if there is a scab then that suggests there is or has been a wound and if it is swelling underneath it, that suggests it is infected. The head is a common place for pecking injury, a tumour would be less common in that area and even if it is a tumour, it will likely prove terminal sooner of later so in my opinion you don't have a lot to lose by investigating further.

That said, you have to do whatever you feel comfortable with because you are the one who can see and feel it and monitor it from day to day, but if it is increasing in size then it is only getting worse.

 

[SurferchickinSB]

I'm inclined to think that if this lump is continuing to swell, there may well be infection building up underneath that scab, that needs to come out, so I would probably lift the scab clean out underneath and treat it with an antibiotic cream and keep her with the others in the pen, but in a little cage or dog crate, so that she is safe from pecking but still part of the flock.
My logic would be that.....if there is a scab then that suggests there is or has been a wound and if it is swelling underneath it, that suggests it is infected. The head is a common place for pecking injury, a tumour would be less common in that area and even if it is a tumour, it will likely prove terminal sooner of later so in my opinion you don't have a lot to lose by investigating further.

That said, you have to do whatever you feel comfortable with because you are the one who can see and feel it and monitor it from day to day, but if it is increasing in size then it is only getting worse.

Thank you so much for your reply. I think it is getting smaller. I sort of lifted the edge up and looked underneath and it looks like a big hole, so I did not pick the scab. I am scared that other chickens will notice and hurt her if I pick off the scab, because right now there are feathers on the scab and it hides the injury.

 

[rebrascora]

Hi

Just wondering how she is doing now as it is 2 weeks since you updated? she has all healed.

 

[SurferchickinSB]

Hi

Just wondering how she is doing now as it is 2 weeks since you updated? she has all healed.

Thank you for asking! The infection went down and the scab never came off. The hydrogen peroxide and Vetrx spray seem to have worked! I need to look at it again, because I thought the scab would come off along with the feathers and that is why I did not pick it off. Mimi has become my best to layer and she is laying eggs every other day the past weeK! Yesterday she laid another egg even though she had laid in the day before! I am now having problems with my Wyandotte , I think a egg broke inside of her