Rooster booster - how to dose? Possible fowl pox

[FLChickens]

i have a BR pullet just about 2 months old, this morning seemed to have a red blister by one eye. A few hours later the other eye seems affected too. I'm guessing fowl pox, and HOPING it's the dry kind. We still have awful weather, rain every day. She's lying down in a little hole she's dug out for herself under the coop (it's tall and dry there).

I want to pull her out so the others aren't pecking at her eye, and worried because she's not running about anymore. (Could be because of rain too.) I thought to give her some Rooster Booster since it seems Vit A, D, E, and B are recommended. But it's 1/3 t /gal of water? I'd rather give her clean water and maybe a few grains of vitamin in mashed egg yolk, or with water syringed into her beak. I'd also like to give it to the rest of my small flock (12 birds, various ages, none much larger than a grown silkie, smallest a 5 week old Jersey Giant). But I want to mix it into egg yolk or similar for them, and may or may not add to the water.

Any idea how to dose/measure it?

I'm planning to separate the little BR for a day or two, keep her warm and dry (if she isn't too distressed by separation), or at least put a little anti-b cream (non pain relief) on her sores. Anything else I should do for now?

Thanks!

 

[JudysMuscovy]

i have a BR pullet just about 2 months old, this morning seemed to have a red blister by one eye. A few hours later the other eye seems affected too. I'm guessing fowl pox, and HOPING it's the dry kind. We still have awful weather, rain every day. She's lying down in a little hole she's dug out for herself under the coop (it's tall and dry there).

I want to pull her out so the others aren't pecking at her eye, and worried because she's not running about anymore. (Could be because of rain too.) I thought to give her some Rooster Booster since it seems Vit A, D, E, and B are recommended. But it's 1/3 t /gal of water? I'd rather give her clean water and maybe a few grains of vitamin in mashed egg yolk, or with water syringed into her beak. I'd also like to give it to the rest of my small flock (12 birds, various ages, none much larger than a grown silkie, smallest a 5 week old Jersey Giant). But I want to mix it into egg yolk or similar for them, and may or may not add to the water.

Any idea how to dose/measure it?

I'm planning to separate the little BR for a day or two, keep her warm and dry (if she isn't too distressed by separation), or at least put a little anti-b cream (non pain relief) on her sores. Anything else I should do for now?

Thanks!

I hope you are not dealing with dry pox as I am right now. I have 3 birds with it so far. I have them separate from the rest of the flock. One had both eyes with blisters and can't see. I noticed she was not eating so I put her in my garage in a dog crate. I used veterycin and also started using Aloe plant and witch hazel on the one I took in the garage they are all doing well and she started eating so I put her back with the other two.

 

[Eggcessive]

Can you post a picture of the scab? Dry pox includes scabs outside of the beak and throat. Wet pox is yellow patches or lesions inside the throat, trachea, and esophagus.
It may be more simple to buy the Poultry Cell or NutriDrench, and give 1 ml orally or in food daily. Or just take a very small pinch of the Vitamins With Lactobacillus, and add to food. Some use a 1/2 crushed B complex tablet sprinkled over food for B vitamins, or give some chopped liver, tuna, or egg. Many common treats contain various good vitamins. Here are some links about pox to read:
http://www.thepoultrysite.com/publications/6/diseases-of-poultry/195/fowl-pox/
http://www.the-chicken-chick.com/2015/07/fowl-pox-prevention-treatment.html

 

[Freisian]

Can you post a picture of the scab? Dry pox includes scabs outside of the beak and throat. Wet pox is yellow patches or lesions inside the throat, trachea, and esophagus.
It may be more simple to buy the Poultry Cell or NutriDrench, and give 1 ml orally or in food daily. Or just take a very small pinch of the Vitamins With Lactobacillus, and add to food. Some use a 1/2 crushed B complex tablet sprinkled over food for B vitamins, or give some chopped liver, tuna, or egg. Many common treats contain various good vitamins. Here are some links about pox to read:
http://www.thepoultrysite.com/publications/6/diseases-of-poultry/195/fowl-pox/
http://www.the-chicken-chick.com/2015/07/fowl-pox-prevention-treatment.html

You are an knowledge god!

 

[Eggcessive]

Not really, but thank you. We are all here to offer suggestions that we have tried.

 

[FLChickens]

Thanks! I'll try to post pics, probably tomorrow. I would actually like to get opinions, since it doesn't look to me like perfect case of fowl pox.

She's quite strong and lively, in fact. I did separate her and another chick of the same age (hoping having two will decrease stress, the other is very placid and isn't pecking her). They aren't too happy being separated, but they are eating, drinking, settling in ok.

I gave them a tiny bit of RB powder mixed with a little egg yolk. I smashed the rest of the egg and added a little more powder (probably about 1/16 of a teaspoon) and gave to the others.

I'll see what happens tomorrow. We have t-storms forecast for the next two weeks. The coop is dry, and the area under the coop reasonably so, but the chickens go in the run and get soaked. It's hot, but it does cool in the wind/rain, and I'm worried for a chick being soaked and sick at the same time.

I may build some kind of wire cage into a corner of the coop. I'd rather have her in familiar surroundings, but I want her dry and not having to fend off the others.

 

[Freisian]

Not really, but thank you. We are all here to offer suggestions that we have tried.

And they are greatly appreciated, I am storing them for future eventualities with my young flock, thank you for sharing your knowledge

 

[FLChickens]

Still separated. Growths/pox/whatever worse around one eye. She's very lively and eating, drinking. I'm trying to post a pic, I finally get help to take one. The rest of the flock looks fine. Everyone got eggs with vitamin powder added though it's impossible for me to know amount they got.

 

[FLChickens]

Hopefully this will work to show pics. Her left eye looks much worse than yesterday. Right eye maybe same or worse. It is fowl pox isn't it? Really looking like it to me now. I was only seeing a large round smooth wart-looking growth by the eyes yesterday, but then the camera really blows it up. Maybe I was missing seeing details yesterday.

 

[FLChickens]

it's not raining so I halfway want to put her back while the weather is good. But I'm afraid the others will peck her eye and I'm not sure she can see out the left one. The hen that raised them had been "weaning" them over the past week or two so the dynamics in the flock are changing and there's a lot of pecking going on (doesn't seem vicious but I don't want her subjected to it).

So I'm planning to keep them separate. Not sure if I can put medicine right on the eye? She's only getting food, water, vitamins, and a warm dry place with lots of rest for now. Not sure what else I can do?