Turkey with growth near beak from old scar

[H.R. Cluck-N-Stuff]

Just wondering if anyone has experience with anything that looks familiar to this growth. This is a young heritage turkey and when it was just a day old chick, our barn cat got a hold of it by the eye and beak. It mostly stayed a small scar, or looking like a skin tag, until recently, it seems like a wart or abcess, its not hard to the touch, seems like it would be fluid filled maybe. Should I drain it, have quick stop on hand? Let it be? I had a chick with nearly the same injury and the skin tag never reached this large a size, I had left it alone and it fell off or reabsorbed, I'm not quite sure as it seemed over night. The turkey has the small chick as a companion since they're chicks, so no aggression I don't think or pecking at it. Any advice or opinions?

 

[Delaneygraces]

Watching! My hen currently has a large growth/bump on her face, and I can’t get anything to come out, no matter how I squeeze/try to drain it. No antibiotics have worked either.

 

[H.R. Cluck-N-Stuff]

Someone's made a suggestion fowl pox in another turkey related thread... Any thoughts if that could be the case and its unrelated and coincidental to the cat?

Maybe in your chickens case Delaney i you might want to look into that?

 

[Wyorp Rock]

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[H.R. Cluck-N-Stuff]

So, update. Both groths got larger, and we didn't want to mess at the one near its eye, but we took a hot compress to the abcess near its beak, and then an insulin syrgine, nothing was inside. Nothing to squeeze, no blood. So I soaked iodine on it and applied triple bacterium zinc oitmint on it, twice a day, kind of as a last ditch, let's see.

First, the abcess fell off by the eye. It was smaller, like a skin tag. I was happy, but the one by the beak really seemed to be a big worry.

It was appearing to harden and scab over, going from a soft swollen skin color to a dark, hard brown red. No other "pox" appeared, our respiratory issues, I ruled out foul pox, and none of the other birds got ill.

As of yesterday afternoon, the abcess either rubbed or fell off. If it follows suit if the chick who was attacked by the same cat and had the same, albut minor reaction, to the cats bites, I don't anticipate it returning.

Quite happy that my first turkey seems to be healthy then. And I'm not sure, but it seems to be female