Requesting Wet Fowl Pox Advice

[carolinachickadee]

Hello all! Our flock has been battling fowl pox for the last month or so. It has primarily been dry fowl pox, and we have been managing by adding vitamins to their water, putting Vetericyn and Hen Healer on the spots, and keeping the coop clean.

It’s been running its course and I thought we were almost in the clear, but on one of my Lavender Orpington hens (one year old) it has progressed to what I believe to be wet fowl pox. I separated her so that I could monitor her better. We gave her an oral dose of 1cc Poultry Cell, 250mg of Fin Mox (fish antibiotics), and continuing to treat the skin with Vetericyn and Hen Healer. So far, she is eating and drinking ok, and her behavior seems normal.

Has anyone been through this that could advise anything further we could be doing for her? Thanks in advance!

 

[Eggcessive]

I would not disturb the pox scabs on the skin since that can spread the pox. Her tongue looks a bit weird, kind of squared off. Is there anything in her beak sticking to her tongue? Wet pox does cause yellow plaques or gunk inside the beak and throat. Eating and drinking can be a problem. Antibiotics do not treat fowl pox, since it is a virus. Here is some reading about fowl pox and a picture of the yellow lesions inside the beak and throat of a chicken with wet pox:
https://extension.msstate.edu/sites/default/files/publications/publications/p3131.pdf

 

[carolinachickadee]

I would not disturb the pox scabs on the skin since that can spread the pox. Her tongue looks a bit weird, kind of squared off. Is there anything in her beak sticking to her tongue? Wet pox does cause yellow plaques or gunk inside the beak and throat. Eating and drinking can be a problem. Antibiotics do not treat fowl pox, since it is a virus. Here is some reading about fowl pox and a picture of the yellow lesions inside the beak and throat of a chicken with wet pox:
https://extension.msstate.edu/sites/default/files/publications/publications/p3131.pdf

Thank you for the information! I do see what you mean by her tongue looking squared off in the picture. It doesn’t look as square in person, but she is quite wiggly when held and it is tough to get a picture with her mouth open So far I have noticed her tongue looking yellow and maybe some small lesions on the upper inside of her beak. Though, her eye looks a little less swollen today. Hoping we can get her through this!

 

[Eggcessive]

Another disease canker can also look like wet fowl pox. It smells very bad though, where wet fowl pox does not. They are treated differently. With her having fowl pox, it most likely is wet pox. Let us know how she gets along.