Turkey poult with red bumps / pimples and one eye closed

[kboese]

Hello everyone,
This is my first hatch of turkeys ever but everything has been going well so far and we now have seven self blue turkey poults that are four weeks old today. They seem happy and healthy and drink, eat, poop a lot.
However, I noticed that one of the poults keeps her right eye closed a lot. She can open it fine but whenever she doesn't actively use it she closes it. I can't really see any change to the eye on examination. However, I also noticed she has some red pimple like bumps in her face... Looks like maybe a little red spot next to her I too, but hard to tell.
Is anyone know what this could be? I have attached a couple of pictures too.
Thanks a lot for any replies in advance.
Kristin

 

[casportpony]

Welcome to BYC! Haven't seen anything like that before.

-Kathy

 

[kboese]

Turns out it was avian pox... We have so many Mosquitos in our area, I guess there wasn't anything I could've done to prevent it... Each of the poults got it ... some worse some not so bad...
It didn't really seem to affect him otherwise and they were eating, drinking and running around like normal...
But now they have pretty much all recovered and are as good as new.

Just in case one of you ever has an issue with this I will also let you know that a couple of upholds had it so bad around the ice that the eyes were completely swollen shut. However, as soon as the pox fell off the eyes opened again and they are now fine

All the best,
Kristin