What is growing on the side of her mouth?

[Wyorp Rock]

Our 8 year old D'uccke hen has a swelling/growth on the side of her mouth. Has anyone seem anything like this before? She still eats and drinks normally.the first pic is the normal side the other is the growth.View attachment 2926678View attachment 2926677

What's the inside of the beak look like?

 

[LaFleche]

It has been two days already since the original post.

Have you been able to get this nasty wire off her beak?

 

[Ironduccle]

To me it looks as if there is some kind of thin wire wrapped around the lower part of her beak cutting into it:

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I just xhecked. There is nothing there niw but maybe there was in the past and this is a healing injury .good observation!

What's the inside of the beak look like?

Normal mistly. Just a but of birt tgazmt i could wipe off the inside if her mourh o. The wonky side.

 

[Wyorp Rock]

Normal mistly. Just a but of birt tgazmt i could wipe off the inside if her mourh o. The wonky side.

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Nothing like stinky canker or lesions there right?
If she's eating/drinking ok, then not sure what you should do except to make sure food, etc. aren't caking up inside the beak.

 

[Banana01]

Looks like pox, and the one looks to be inside her mouth, which is more of a wet pox. Watch out for where she is scratching, is there something below her eye forming or is it just a scratch mark? Best you can do is keep parasites off her and worms out of her so the pox dont thrive. Hope it clears soon.

 

[Ironduccle]

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Nothing like stinky canker or lesions there right?
If she's eating/drinking ok, then not sure what you should do except to make sure food, etc. aren't caking up inside the beak.

 

[Ironduccle]

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Nothing like stinky canker or lesions there right?
If she's eating/drinking ok, then not sure what you should do except to make sure food, etc. aren't caking up inside the beak.

Will do

 

[Ironduccle]

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Nothing like stinky canker or lesions there right?
If she's eating/drinking ok, then not sure what you should do except to make sure food, etc. aren't caking up inside the beak.

 

[Ironduccle]

OK I really need to wear my glasses when I'm typing.. That was pretty bad.. We ended up taking her to the vet today because she started mouth breathing and the vet has put her on we're on a antibiotic and said that she had little patches in her throat kind of like strip throat the vet thinks it might be early canker.

 

[Wyorp Rock]

OK I really need to wear my glasses when I'm typing.. That was pretty bad.. We ended up taking her to the vet today because she started mouth breathing and the vet has put her on we're on a antibiotic and said that she had little patches in her throat kind of like strip throat the vet thinks it might be early canker.

Well, my deciphering ring is broken, so I didn't catch all of that previous post.

I do understand this one though! I'm glad you were able to see a vet. Did they give Metronidazole for treating the canker or something else? Always learning what treatments vets prescribe.
Do some research about Canker and speak with your vet as well, but Canker is contagious. It can be spread through shared water/feed stations, etc. Even if only one bird has symptoms, most do go ahead and treat the flock's water with Acidified Copper Sulfate for 3 days each month as a preventative treatment to keep the canker from spreading.