Well I guess Colonel Bok Bok has the pox!

[Southern28Chick]

Has anyone dealt with avian pox/fowl pox before? I think I read somewhere that if a chicken has it once then they won't get it again. I really don't have the means to vaccinate 24 chickens. My roo has these very very small black scabby looking dots on his comb and I just noticed a line of them on a wattle this morning. The ones on his wattle looks a bit more like a scratch but who knows. They are not pussy or large, they just look like scattered little scabs.

What should I do?

 

[Wolfpacker]

Oh no. My girls' potential fellah is sick. Hope he gets better!

 

[Southern28Chick]

The more I read about it the more I think he DOES NOT have avian pox. He looks nothing like the pictures on this page: https://www.backyardchickens.com/LC-diseases-AvianPox.html

They didn't start of white then turn black. They are just teeny tiny black dots. I'm so confused!!! He doesn't act sick!!!

 

[justusnak]

Is there a chance he was pecked? Maybe in a fight? You might be seeing blood scabs. I would cover the comb and wattles with neosporin...hope that helps.

 

[CarriBrown]

My little roo has that, also. It does sort of look like scabs but I don't want to pick at him. He already doesn't like to be held! But they will come and go... Kip is over a year and healthy and onery as ever.
Can you post a picture? If it's the same thing Kip has, I wouldn't worry about it.

 

[hisbride]

this is my fear! I have been obsessive about combs lately. I even had a dream about it last night and I was trying to get a hold of a chicken to look at it and it kept bobbing its head and this went on til I woke up. I hope he doesn't have it.

Now I want to know - if you get them from the hatchery are they already vaccinated for the pox?
If you hatch your own how do you vaccinate? Is it food or put in the water or do you have to take them to a vet to get a shot.
Can you eat the eggs while they have it? If not how long do you have to wait after the pox has passed before you can?
Maybe I should start a new thread.

 

[Southern28Chick]

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He hasn't been pecked. He stays penned up by himself until my girls get older.

 

[Southern28Chick]

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I tried taking a picture yesterday but they are so small you can't even see them in the picture. The scabs that he has come and go too. Sometimes there are none and then there they are again. It's been like that for as long as I've had him, which is 6 weeks now.

 

[Southern28Chick]

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https://www.backyardchickens.com/LC-dise … anPox.html Check out this link. Mine are from a hatchery and I didn't have them vaccinated for anything. The vaccine is a shot.

 

[Napalongtail]

Sounds like insect bites. The horses, sheep and cattle all get lil scabs inside their ears and on their bellies this time of year. You can barely see the lil bugs that bite the ears but you can swipe a whole baby wipe of them out.