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

[Heidi Plume]

How is your chick? One of my hens is going through something similar so I'm curious how things worked out for your girl.

 

[Eggcessive]

I would try her with supervised visits with the flock so she is not a stranger, so she can be added back to the flock. Betadine or Blukote are both good to disquise the wound, but it doesn’t look too obvious anymore.

 

[Olivekat07]

Bless her heart.
The BYC flock will be praying for your little baby!
Hope she gets better

 

[Amy Carter]

How is your chick? One of my hens is going through something similar so I'm curious how things worked out for your girl.

She is better every day! I'll take another progress pic today. I stopped antibiotics and am just using the ointment now. As for integration, when I had her separated she was in a crate right next to the other one and I let her visit in there like Eggsessive recommended. She's been reintegrated for two days now and a few give curiosity pecks and walk away. It helps that she is one of the two biggest birds in there. I keep saying she...I hope! Anyway Heidi, please feel free to ask questions or post pics of your baby. Everyone is so helpful here. I hope yours is ok.

 

[Amy Carter]

I would try her with supervised visits with the flock so she is not a stranger, so she can be added back to the flock. Betadine or Blukote are both good to disquise the wound, but it doesn’t look too obvious anymore.

oops. i replied to you below in someone else;s comment thread but I thought I'd add here that coincidentally the scab is the same color as the feathers that should be there so that helps! Good thing she's not a red lol.

 

[drumstick diva]

so glad she is doing well.

 

[Amy Carter]

Thank you so much.

 

[Amy Carter]

Update:
She is starting to grow another on her head Started antibiotics again.

 

[Eggcessive]

Oh no... What antibiotic are you using? What dosage? Can you look up “feather cyst in chickens” by Googling, and try to determine if it is an ingrown feather. If it is another air sac problem, I would try a vet for a stronger antibiotic. Different bacteria require a specific antibiotic, and air sacs can cause bacteria to spread all over the body. E.coli is a frquent bacteria in air sacculitis, and is poorly treated with many antibiotics. It also could be another bacteria, so withdrawing fluid and a culturemight be needed. Unfortunately vet care for chickens can be expensive and sometimes hard to find in some areas.

 

[Amy Carter]

That is good advice. I ran out of the antibiotics is was using so I gave her amoxicillin just now. I’ll look up what kind of antiobiotic does or doesn’t work because I know I have one more kind at home. The last cyst thing I assumed it wasn’t air because when the feather came out and there was that big hole and I could literally see inside, it didn’t like let air out and shrink. It was more swollen flesh.