TSC Chick Spread FowlPox To My Other Chicks, What To do, & How Do I Treat it?

[MysteryChicken]

My sister has a silkie chick she named Pancake, about 6 weeks ago I noticed two pimple like lesions on each side of his face, no other symptoms. Recently now most of our 6 week old chicks have the pimple like spots with runny noses, and wet sneezes. Is that fowlpox, or just a reaction to pine shavings? Hope it's not the pox.

I don't have pictures right now, I'll take some tomorrow.

 

[MysteryChicken]

I found a picture that shows one of the spots on the lower part of the beak of one of my chicks. I enhanced it.

 

[MysteryChicken]

Here's a young roo of mine. The back of his comb is swollen on both sides, and has a bad case of the sniffles.

 

[Kessel23]

It was probably not the TSC chick. Fowl pox is spread through mosquitoes and other blood sucking pests like mites. Way more likely that your birds were just bit by a infected mosquito if they have fowl pox.

 

[MysteryChicken]

It was probably not the TSC chick. Fowl pox is spread through mosquitoes and other blood sucking pests like mites. Way more likely that your birds were just bit by a infected mosquito if they have fowl pox.

They weren't outside, to get bitten by any bug. I forgot to mention they have watery eyes.

 

[Kessel23]

They weren't outside, to get bitten by any bug. I forgot to mention they have watery eyes.

Well neither are the chicks at TSC. Bugs can get inside and one had to at some point weather it was your bird that was bit or the one at TSC. Also it is spread from bird to bird through more bug bites.

 

[MysteryChicken]

Well neither are the chicks at TSC. Bugs can get inside and one had to at some point weather it was your bird that was bit or the one at TSC. Also it is spread from bird to bird through more bug bites.

What about snot? Can it be spread through the infected bird's snot? I haven't found any mites. Are carriers of fowl pox possible?

 

[BugStalker]

As far as I know, it's basically a blood disease, meaning it could probably be spread by sharing needles, but I don't know if it could even be spread by a chicken pecking at another's bloody lesion, since it may not be absorbed as a whole virus.