SPOTS not frost bite

[AtRendeAcres]

Last month I noticed spots on 2 chickens combs & went along with Frost Bite but, a few more have spots now

it is spreading most seem to have a spot even pea combs & I am not able to take picture now!

They were all Mareks vacinated

They all seem fine!

What is this & What do I do???

 

[SpottedCrow]

They could be scratching or it could be pox...are there any other symptoms?

 

[AtRendeAcres]

nothing else appears to be wrong!

I am so upset I can't think!

I went on fether site but could not find anything on common disease!

send me to a site is there medication for this?

we eat eggs everyday will we get sick?

 

[SpottedCrow]

http://backyardchickens.com/LC-diseases-AvianPox.html

Check out this link...

 

[sammi]

any possibility they have mites and are pecking each other?

or just pecking?
sure they aren't just peck marks?

if it's Pox..especially dry Pox..it usually will pass.
apply a light coat of antibiotic ointment to the combs.

watch for any symptoms, such as swollen eyes or problems with eating..

 

[rooster-red]

Are the spots only on the combs or on the face too?

 

[AtRendeAcres]

therealsilkiechick is going to do blood test & send to lab!

I remembered she is by me & her signiture had "PA Certified and Licensed Poultry Technician"

here pictures

It looks much worse in person!
maybe 2 months I noticed on him I sat down with them all other day it spread!

I really thought I was doing everything the write way DE on food in coop I had them all vacinated for Marks

They all look happy & alert also!

I hear of people who don't do anything for them feed them dog food, live in unsaanitised condition!

& nothing happens to their chickens!!

It gets worst I have chicks only 3 weeks brooding in there ((they are really only separated by cardboard-wood-fence))

 

[DixieDame67]

RChick i just posted yesterday for this very same thing, i put photo of my roo on board....if you find out anything please let me know cuz yours looks just like what mine has...i even got my other roo down today and he has spots like that also , just the roos not the hens....but the frizzle i just got ystrdy so ive looked around all day online as to what it could be....

 

[AtRendeAcres]

I will keep everyone posted!

my family just doesn't understand how upset I am!

 

[d.k]

*If it's taken this long to spread on the skin I'd be thinking fungal-- probably not an egg threat to your family in that case. Your' in PA, yes? Cold and wet this winter? Still wet and warming a bit now?? Wet and warming would accelate the growth/spread of a fungus. . . . . Might take a skin scrape to diagnose-- Don't think blood will, not sure bout that.