Please help?!

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I have one hen that has covered eyes and her comb has a scabby growth and a few other hens have scabby growth on their combs but their eyes are fine
 

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I'm on my cellphone, can barely see your pictures, but my first thought is Fowl Pox.

Are these new additions, or did you recently add a bird to your flock, by chance? (Not that its the only way you might end up w/ fowl pox on property, but it is one of the most common ways)

@Eggcessive @azygous know FAR FAR FAR more about poultry illness and disease than I do, maybe they can see your pictures and offer an opinion.
 
More information would help, as well as better photos showing what concerns you, then describe to us what worries you.

It appears that the chicken was injured somehow and has head wounds in various stages of healing or infection. Treating the wounds by washing with saline or soap and water, then applying an antibiotic ointment to keep the wounds moist while they heal is about all you can do.
 
I will try to get better pictures It’s been storming so it was dark and Rainey. Her whole comb is a big oozy “scab” that forms down over her eyes to her beak. There was white frothy stuff coming from her eyes. I tried to use a wet cloth to wipe it away. 5 other hens have combs that look the same but don’t go over their eyes as of now. They are not really “new” I started with 6 hens which are a year old now this one is about 5 months old (there are 22) including two Roos. And they where combined Slowey at 3month old At this time I did separate all the hens that are having this issue. The one pictured is the worst and acting very lethargic since it can’t see. My concern after reading was it fowl pox. But it also looks like they could have been fighting the odd thing is I have never seen anything aggressive like that. Some light chasing and the random peck here and there.
 
Yes, get better photos when you can. It does sound as if it could be fowl pox, and so many chickens being involved points even more to that. If they've been exposed to a heavy mosquito population, even more reason to believe it's pox.
 
Yes, get better photos when you can. It does sound as if it could be fowl pox, and so many chickens being involved points even more to that. If they've been exposed to a heavy mosquito population, even more reason to believe it's pox.
I live in Florida and have marsh all around us so they are bad this time of year. Thanks so much for your thoughts
 
Here are some better pictures hopefully as well as some of my other hens that aren’t as bad 5 in total effected. I have the. Separated atm cause I didn’t know if they could spread it.
 

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those do not look like common pecking injuries to me. I continue to suspect fowl pox (though I am NOT an expert). Its a virus, and once present, will move very slowly thru the flock and persist thereafter for many months after the last bird's symptoms have disappeared.

Apart from poor chicken quarentine practices when adding new birds to the flock, mosquitoes are the primary disease vector. Depending on source, claims are that they will carry infected blood from one avian to another up to 500 feet. Wild birds can also be an infection source, though the various fowl pox are largely species exclusive in their symptoms.

The only treatment for fowl pox is palliative care and time. Except the "wet" kind, its generally non fatal for thevast majority of birds, though it can be harder on hatchlings due to a less developed immune system.

SORRY. Wish I had better news to offer, hope I'm wrong.
 

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