VERY strange growth......need help ASAP!-----UPDATE!

[the4heathernsmom]

Our local vets are not bird enthusiasts but they are there for simple things I need help with. But they ahve offered to do testing etc for free as learning experience for our tiny flock because they have many vet tech students there. Just an fyi sometimes you can find vets who are willing to help a little just for the experience it gives....just a thought

 

[AHappychick]

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I am very impressed sounds like you did a greatr job and that is one very lucky chicken. I hope she makes a speedy recovery.

 

[jjthink]

Just seeing this thread and know a lot of time has passed. So sorry for this poor bird and thank you for trying to help. Sometimes avian vets are out there not too far away but it can take an awful lot of digging to find them. I hope she finds one. It may also help if she e-mails photos and all pertinent info to avian veterinary departments in universities, such as U. of PA., and follow up with phone calls to see if they recognize this. As someone else noted, Peter Brown at First State Veterinary Supply (google and there is a way to contact him at that site) may be able to help and.or recommend someone who could.
I hope this works out for the bird. Keep us posted.
JJ

 

[rstampa]

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That was my concern as well. I've never seen anything like that before and she has had 2 birds come down with the same thing?
There is something missing in her story. It looks absest but I wouldn't take a change on doing anything. She really needs to go to a vet. Or put it out of its misery. And dispose of the body like a previous post had mentioned.

 

[rstampa]

As far as everybody attacking you I am more then sympathetic. I get the same thing a lot. Everybody's a critic and an alarmist. You don't have to defend yourself ever. Here or anywhere else you go.
Hope you have a nice Sunday Evening.

 

[geebs]

For what it is worth... I saw a wild bird this spring that looked EXACTLY like that at my barn... My kids wanted to "help it".... We didn't touch it... No way... Looked way too.... biohazard for me to mess with it....

 

[TurtleFeathers]

I've been dealing with a similar situation for the last 3-4 weeks - see here:

https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=249747

After making that post, I kept researching - I waited a week and ran her thru a course of sulmet, thinking possibly coryza, and it did nothing. I finally spoke to my vet, who prescribed Baytril injections - she is currently on her 6th day of this, and so far, it hasn't helped at all. The rest of the flock is fine, as is this hen (still acting/eating/drinking/pooping normally), except for this huge bulbous eye.

I'm sure this has to do with more bits of pine shavings being lodged in her sinus cavity or an abscess, but I won't know for sure unless it is opened and drained - which is more than likely what will have to happen. And my vet agrees.

My point tho, is that I freaked out when I first saw my hen with this eye, thinking my flock had some nasty disease, just like some people here did when they saw that first pic in this thread. Had I posted a pic in my original thread, I'm sure I would have received the same reaction. I've learned tho, not to jump to conclusions or take drastic measures when you're presented with something like this and don't know FOR SURE what it is - just try your best to keep a level head, take all the necessary precautions to protect the rest of your birds, and if its beyond any home treatment, get a professional diagnosis, and go from there. Simple as that. So for God's sake, don't start culling birds and burning their bodies til you know for sure that's the only alternative!!

That said, maybe this chicken has a piece of foreign matter lodged in her sinus cavity, that's just been left untreated too long? And maybe its a weird coincidence that the one from last year had the same thing? We don't know for sure, of course, but I'm just saying - it COULD be a possibility...

 

[ivan3]

TurtleFeathers wrote: I've learned tho, not to jump to conclusions or take drastic measures when you're presented with something like this and don't know FOR SURE what it is - just try your best to keep a level head, take all the necessary precautions to protect the rest of your birds, and if its beyond any home treatment, get a professional diagnosis, and go from there. Simple as that. So for God's sake, don't start culling birds and burning their bodies til you know for sure that's the only alternative!!

Pretty well mirrors our sentiments and experience: https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?pid=140920#p140920

(rather lengthy thread about an apparent abcess that was, instead, a chondrosarcoma on one of our turkey toms).

have a problem with graphic pics? Don't bother.​

 

[AmyRey]

Geez Louise!

That poor chicken!

I'm hoping that we'll get an update soon and hear that she's doing better.