What does this look like to you?

[danielley101215]

Your other birds may or may not get it. Be very careful with your biosecurity for the next month. The scabs can harbour the virus, and you don't want to be tracking it on your shoes to your other poultry.

Yeah I only have like one or two pairs of shoes but I wear the same ones into all the coops usually including my school Ag farms chicken unit and my duck pen at my school Ag farm. I hope it doesn't spread anymore I hate this

 

[R2elk]

Yeah I only have like one or two pairs of shoes but I wear the same ones into all the coops usually including my school Ag farms chicken unit and my duck pen at my school Ag farm. I hope it doesn't spread anymore I hate this

One method to help your biosecurity is to put plastic bags over your shoes before you enter a contaminated pen and to remove the plastic bags and dispose of them after leaving the contaminated pen and before entering non-contaminated pens.

 

[Otis-Gussy]

I've had to give all my birds the fowl pox vaccine because we have so many mosquitoes here.
It's a very simple poke in the webbing of their wing.
As everyone else said, they typically recover just fine. You just have to watch for it turning into something called "wet pox" not sure the details on that but sounds pretty gross.
Hope your handsome guy feels better, I'm always in awe of him when you post pics.

 

[andreanar]

I have heard using a mixture of 2 tbls of yellow Sulphur powder mixed in 1/2 cup Vaseline and rubbed on sores can help.

 

[danielley101215]

I've had to give all my birds the fowl pox vaccine because we have so many mosquitoes here.
It's a very simple poke in the webbing of their wing.
As everyone else said, they typically recover just fine. You just have to watch for it turning into something called "wet pox" not sure the details on that but sounds pretty gross.
Hope your handsome guy feels better, I'm always in awe of him when you post pics.

Thanks!! I love him he's my boy. I hope he will be okay too. His case doesn't seem bad so far. I hope it doesn't get worse

 

[danielley101215]

One method to help your biosecurity is to put plastic bags over your shoes before you enter a contaminated pen and to remove the plastic bags and dispose of them after leaving the contaminated pen and before entering non-contaminated pens.

So I should do that when I go into my turkeys pen and then go anywhere else?

 

[R2elk]

So I should do that when I go into my turkeys pen and then go anywhere else?

Put the plastic bags on before you go into a pen that hold contaminated or suspected contamination. As soon as you leave the contaminated pen remove the plastic bags. One way to remove them is to roll them inside out so that any contaminants they picked up on the outside of the bag are now contained on the new inside of the bag and dispose of them. Then you can go anywhere else with minimal possibility of carrying the contaminants with you.

 

[danielley101215]

Put the plastic bags on before you go into a pen that hold contaminated or suspected contamination. As soon as you leave the contaminated pen remove the plastic bags. One way to remove them is to roll them inside out so that any contaminants they picked up on the outside of the bag are now contained on the new inside of the bag and dispose of them. Then you can go anywhere else with minimal possibility of carrying the contaminants with you.

Thank you! I hope it won't spread to the chickens and I hope my turkeys will be okay

 

[oldhenlikesdogs]

Occasionally in the fall a turkey will develop fowl pox here. It runs it's course in about 6 weeks total. They get a lot worse looking before they get better.

I do nothing, they heal up eventually. None of my chickens or ducks have ever gotten it. It helps to keep standing water to a minimum to prevent mosquitoes who spread it.

Once a bird has fowl pox it's immune to it.

 

[danielley101215]

Occasionally in the fall a turkey will develop fowl pox here. It runs it's course in about 6 weeks total. They get a lot worse looking before they get better.

I do nothing, they heal up eventually. None of my chickens or ducks have ever gotten it. It helps to keep standing water to a minimum to prevent mosquitoes who spread it.

Once a bird has fowl pox it's immune to it.

I'm very happy that once it goes away they won't get it again, just sucks in the mean time I guess. Trying to prevent it from spreading to my chickens