Wart like growth on beak

[Maddi padi]

Please help my chicks have developed these lesions around their peaks . Its getting hard for them to be breath. How can I treat this?

 

[Beefriend]

This is a 13 week old Black Copper Marans pullet. About a week or so ago I started noticing a bump forming on the top edge of of her beak between her nostrils. It is hard (like a wart, not like her beak) and doesn't seem painful. She is in a pen with other chickens but none of them have this problem. I have seen where a few other people in the past have posted this same question with very similar photos but so far I have found no clear answers as to what it is.

So I'm hoping someone can pipe in with some insight, if nothing else can anyone tell me how their chicken is doing long term with the wart? Does anyone know if it is hereditary? Contagious?

Does anyone know of any good poultry medical resources I could look for to hopefully learn more about this issue?

I had the same problem. I had never had this problem until now. I think it is some type of infection, because the chickens that got sick were able to go to the rabbit's manure. Following some of the advice in the forum we cut one of the chicken's "wart", the chicken did not die, but it has taken a long time to heal its wound. For the other two I decided to apply oxytetracycline. The one that was just starting to show cleared up in two weeks. The other is making progress but is not completly healed yet. The three are alive and getting better. They never seemed sickly, not sure why because the top of their beaks were swollen (besides the wart). I could not find any information on this anywhere else! (May 2019)

 

[Chicatita]

I had the same problem. I had never had this problem until now. I think it is some type of infection, because the chickens that got sick were able to go to the rabbit's manure. Following some of the advice in the forum we cut one of the chicken's "wart", the chicken did not die, but it has taken a long time to heal its wound. For the other two I decided to apply oxytetracycline. The one that was just starting to show cleared up in two weeks. The other is making progress but is not completly healed yet. The three are alive and getting better. They never seemed sickly, not sure why because the top of their beaks were swollen (besides the wart). I could not find any information on this anywhere else! (May 2019)

Did anyone find out what this was? My longhorn chick has developed something similar. Seemed to happen after the other larger hens pecked her there and the scab later formed into a larger lump

 

[Shaz1522]

Hi there did you ever work out what it was with your bird?? Did she turn out ok? I have a couple of Maran and leghorn pulletts with the same thing??

Me too

 

[Sally PB]

@Shaz1522, this is another old thread. You can start your own thread on this topic, and you'll be more likely to get an answer. Take a picture of you bird, so we can see what you're worried about.