The Natural Chicken Keeping thread - OTs welcome!

[aaggjg]

"Though she be but little, she is fierce." -Shakespeare (A Midsummer Night's Dream)

I might need to rename her

 

[Chrysolinsbirds]

Spider note? Maybe brown recluse or black widow.. Poor chicken, hope she recovers soon =/

 

[MargaretYakoda]

Spider note? Maybe brown recluse or black widow.. Poor chicken, hope she recovers soon =/

Or bot fly?

 

[Nickeyo]

Get a vet to look if she's a pet chicken, best not to leave

 

[ki4got]

personally, with any kind of abscess, my first reaction is to see if there's anything inside it... usually removing the center (if it is) will speed the healing much more.

it kind of looks like a feather cyst (like an ingrown hair) but they usually take a while to develop to that size.

 

[ki4got]

brown recluse causes necrosis, not a cyst like that... if it were, her feathers would be falling out and the skin would rapidly die and slough off. near the head that would most certainly be a fatal thing.

 

[lazy gardener]

My guess is a ruptured hemangioma. I agree, if she's a pet, have a vet take a look. If not, and she doesn't appear to be in pain, you could continue to treat it yourself, but if she goes down hill or looks like she's getting anemic, you might have to cull.

 

[lalaland]

I've never seen anything like that. Does it feel squishy? is the entire area swollen or just the bump/tumor/airsac?

I take it everything else (eating, moving, eyes, breathing) is just fine?

 

[Eggcessive]

Hey guys I need help for a friend of mine.... I am pasting her emails and photos below...... Have you ever seen this??? If so what is it???

I noticed some dried blood late yesterday afternoon around her neck. I picked her up and she had this huge bulge that was bloody. Her comb is red and she is acting generally normal. But it's swollen and still bleeding a lot today. I isolated her and put a bandage on it because it wouldn't stop bleeding. I don't know if she got attacked, I didn't hear any commotion. I'm kind of baffled. I'm just mystified as to what it is. It almost looks like a giant boil. She's been pecking at it herself, so I tried to cover it so it will stop bleeding and scab over.​

I cleaned it for the third time today with iodine wash made with filtered water and put the third dose of vetericyn today. I think the bleeding has slowed down, it looks like a small golf ball with an open wound on it. It's about the size of a big cherry tomato. It's weird because it looks like an abscess or something. She had nothing on her neck yesterday morning when I was petting her. So that is really odd. I don't know If she got injured, it swelled up to a inch or two high blob and then the others were pecking the blood ? Peck wounds usually don't swell up, in my limited experience. It's almost like an instant growth. I put her little buddy in with her for the evening. She's a baby still and there's a bandage on the wound overnight to see if it helps any. There no blood visible and she's comforted by Charlie, so I'm hoping that helps her.​

The weird tumor thing is still pretty big. I was hoping the swelling would go down, but no. ​

It isn't bleeding anymore but it still looks like a giant eyeball bulging out of her neck. I'm pretty freaked out by it still. It looks pretty awful, i'm just hoping somebody has seen it before so I can figure out what to do.​

Anybody have any ideas what this could be??? Thanks!!!

I'm just guessing, but I think a rooster may have injured her while mating, causing the others to peck it further injuring it. I'm not sure if an air sac could have ruptured there under the skin causing much more swelling over the wound. I would feel it for air underneath the skin, causing the puffiness.

 

[Gramma Chick]

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