I just noticed that my 8 week old blue splash marans has a growth that looks kind of like a mole near her eye; she also has a bump on her beak that might have come from injuries sustained while trying to stick her head through the fencing. What is the growth? Could it be fowlpox? Do I need to separate her from the others? She is healthy otherwise. Thanks for any input.
No, I don't think it is fowl pox. It looks more like a growth such as the one on the top of the beak. I would bet that both will fall off in the next month. Someone else recently had a similar eye scab (fell off eventually) and many post about those beak growths, which are usually related to injury on fencing, waterers, or feeders. If you do a BYC search at the top for growth or wart on chicken's beak, you will see many posts.
The first link here is to show you what fowl pox looks like, and the last 3 are similar bumps: https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/690442/is-this-fowl-pox https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/407306/please-look-3-chicks-w-growth-above-beak https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/494097/wart-like-growth-on-beak
