Swollen wattle

[Poosa poultry]

Swollen wattle, only chicken in flock with it. Seems to be acting and eating normal. Any ideas or treatments recommended?

 

[Eggcessive]

Welcome to BYC. Do you have other farm animals? Can you see a mark on his ears or wattles where your chicken could have been bitten by a tick or spider, beaten or injured by another bird, or any signs of snake bite on it’s skin? It seems a little discolored in the picture. Do you have any bendaryl or diphenhydramine? If you do, you could try giving it a half of a 25 mg tablet orally one time. Some causes of swollen wattles can be trauma, tick bites, fowl cholera, coryza respiratory disease, and frostbite in winter. Have you seen any respiratory disease before, and does your chicken have any other symptoms?

 

[Poosa poultry]

Welcome to BYC. Do you have other farm animals? Can you see a mark on his ears or wattles where your chicken could have been bitten by a tick or spider, beaten or injured by another bird, or any signs of snake bite on it’s skin? It seems a little discolored in the picture. Do you have any bendaryl or diphenhydramine? If you do, you could try giving it a half of a 25 mg tablet orally one time. Some causes of swollen wattles can be trauma, tick bites, fowl cholera, coryza respiratory disease, and frostbite in winter. Have you seen any respiratory disease before, and does your chicken have any other symptoms?

Thank you for the reply. I don’t have any other farm animals other than a Great Pyrenees which guards them. I checked the area pretty good and didn’t see any signs of trauma. Her wattle does appear to be discolored some, a blueish purple hue to it. I have never encountered respiratory disease so if that’s the case it’s new to me. No other symptoms and no distress noted. I will try Benadryl.

 

[Eggcessive]

Let us know how she is doing in the morning. Look around for ticks or spiders in the coop and run.