Pox or canker?

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It looks like pox to me. Is this the only one you have that is showing signs at this point? Is she separated from any others?
 
It looks like pox to me. Is this the only one you have that is showing signs at this point? Is she separated from any others?
She is in a pen with three other similar age chicks. One has a tiny spot on the crook of her beak that was red yesterday. The other two are black copper marans and I didn't see any thing on them.
 
It looks like sinus canker. Smell it. If it has a foul odor, it's canker. If not, fowl pox.
Ok, just checked on the girls. The Easter egger, Miss America, came to me, jumped on my arm and wanted some lovin', which I gave. I smelled of her, and unless I have corona viruse, she smelled like a chicken. However, I checked inside her mouth and she does have a 1/4 in. plaque on the inside of her beak. There is also a new soar on her left eye which is not very obvious in the picture from yesterday. The other pic is of Shera, my lemon cuckoo orpington. I'll post pics.
 
It looks like fowl pox to me. Very common in the southern states. The yellow plaque inside the beak could be a sign of wet or diphtheretic fowl pox. Pox has not treatment other than supportive treatment. Keep them eating and drinking, plain antibiotic ointment in eyes if scabs are around the eyelids, and keeping the nostrils open if a scab is swollen and covering a nostril. Pox is young chicks is much serious and worse than in older birds. Here is an article with more info:
http://extension.msstate.edu/publications/fowl-pox-backyard-flocks
 
It looks like fowl pox to me. Very common in the southern states. The yellow plaque inside the beak could be a sign of wet or diphtheretic fowl pox. Pox has not treatment other than supportive treatment. Keep them eating and drinking, plain antibiotic ointment in eyes if scabs are around the eyelids, and keeping the nostrils open if a scab is swollen and covering a nostril. Pox is young chicks is much serious and worse than in older birds. Here is an article with more info:
http://extension.msstate.edu/publications/fowl-pox-backyard-flocks
Ok, yes we have mosquito , I was chewed up just yesterday. Will it hurt to treat for canker and vaccinate against pox, or would that be too stressful for all their immune systems? I have 4 week old chicks that need to go to their new, never been lived in coop, about 10 feet away from these guys. I will vaccinate them regardless of what the infected pen does because we are always going to have mosquitos.
Will vaccination cause immunity in the Easter egge r or will she always be susceptible?
 

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