Please help. My sweet chick is four weeks old and has some sort of neck tumor!

[Hyroler]

How is your little chick doing?

 

[Amy Carter]

Hi chicken friends,

Thank you for caring about my sweetums. Here is an update. After reading all the advice and seeing that the size of the blob wasn't changing a whole lot, I decided to take SOME sort of action. We were three days into antibiotics so i was less afraid of infection. As I started to examine, a feather just slid right out of its feather hole because the hole was big from being pushed out. There was liquid there so i applied pressure and the hole actually increased in size. She started to chirp and i knew it hurt her so i stopped. Here's the thing, when I squeezed the lump there was a definitive POP that happened. Dark, old blood came out of the hole as if something had bled before and got allclotted. I could see inside and there was no pus etc, just squishy flesh. I cleaned the wound and applied more bacitracin. The lump is less round, and more pliable. I believe it had been some sort of bleeding cyst or that condition where the fat cells themselves get inflamed/infected. All coloration is not black and purple like a bruise. I'm keeping up with antibiotics. The hole is healed today. I think it's slooooooooooooowly healing. She is still eating and drinking fine and i still have her in her own crate next to the other chicks. I keep saying she.She looks so sweet and pretty but who knows. Anyway, she's still hangin in there!!!

 

[azygous]

That is terrific news! Draining that lump should promote healing. I would not have been able to keep myself from trying something like what you did. I feel it was a sensible thing to do.

That cute little fuzzball is definitely a pullet, by the way.

 

[Eggcessive]

Great news. It sounds like a seroma, a collection of blood and serum under the skin, possibly from a bump that caused capillary bleeding. These experiences included in threads for people to read really help us all to learn. Good luck to you and your little pullet.

 

[Amy Carter]

You guys really think so?!?! I wasn't sure if I could get my hopes up since she's just four weeks old. I have four blue Ameraucana chicks currently and they all look like gals so far...there is just no way I could be fortunate enough to end up with four. I'll try to be patient and wait and then I'll post pics of the four and see what you think

 

[Amy Carter]

This is its comb close up. Even though it’s tiny it looks like it might have three rows of peas

 

[azygous]

The color in the photo you just posted could be misleading, but I detect a bit of orange, which could be problematic.

Here's what you do. Watch the comb color over the next two weeks. If the comb remains generally colorless (a washed out pink), you have a pullet. However, if the comb gets progressively more orange, and then turns red-orange by six weeks, it's a cockerel.

 

[Amy Carter]

Ok, it’s a plan! If she is a he I’m going to have to do some careful work choosing a home because this bird is so sweet and so special and so loving.

 

[azygous]

You're a good sport!

 

[Hyroler]

Try to keep neosporin or some ointment on it so it doesn't dry and scab.Better to heal without scabbing in case there is still puss inside it will be able to drain.