What is This? Help!

[FireGal]

i found this on my Mosaic today. I thought it was poop at first because the other girls roost higher than she does. I tried to wash it off. Keep in mind she has black skin, but it’s obviously not poop.
Is this just a sore I can treat or is this really bad?

 

[Wyorp Rock]

Looks like it could be a feather cyst, a festering injury or abscess.
I would clean it well with Chlorhexidine (hibiclens) and investigate it further to see if there's pus or curled up feather(s) underneath that.

https://www.beautyofbirds.com/feathercysts.html
https://vcahospitals.com/know-your-pet/feather-cysts-in-birds

 

[DiYMama540]

Me too! I can't get enough of the knowledge shared around here!! Love it!

 

[FireGal]

Okay, so I soaked it and the hard black part fell off. There was hard yellow ick under it, which we managed to clean a good bit of. After soaking, cleaning, rinse, and repeating for about a half hour, I decided that was as much as she take. We put antibiotic cream on it and now she is in our little isolation kennel with food and water

I sincerely hope I have helped her and not hurt her. She didn’t complain, not even once. Follow up pic of the after...

 

[casportpony]

Good job cleaning it! That yellow stuff looks like pus and should be removed. Grab a pair of tweezers and start picking!

 

[Eggcessive]

Great job on cleaning out the abscess, and good advice from everyone. BluKote is a good topical antiseptic and antifungal, but is meant more for minor scrapes or red patches, and to hide red skin. For serious wounds or abscesses, Hibiclens (chlorhexidene) is great, and Betadine works well too.

 

[Granny Hatchet]

She could soak it depending on where it's located, if not, then warm compresses may be the way to go.

thanks Hun, Im trying to learn. LOL

 

[Wyorp Rock]

thanks Hun, Im trying to learn. LOL

Me too! We can learn together

 

[Granny Hatchet]

Really, your not dumb. Shouldnt say that. If you think like you had a boil, how would you treat it ? soaks and bust or vet ? Vets are so expensive and for small stuff you can treat at home I would. I would also wear gloves cause sometimes that a staph infection and contagious.

 

[Wyorp Rock]

Okay, so I soaked it and the hard black part fell off. There was hard yellow ick under it, which we managed to clean a good bit of. After soaking, cleaning, rinse, and repeating for about a half hour, I decided that was as much as she take. We put antibiotic cream on it and now she is in our little isolation kennel with food and water

I sincerely hope I have helped her and not hurt her. She didn’t complain, not even once. Follow up pic of the after...

You are doing good!
O.k. that yellow cheesy stuff - that is chicken pus. You will want to work on pressing that out. Take your time, you may have to work on that for a couple of days. Flush well in between with saline, betadine or Hibiclens. See if there may be some impacted feathers in there, hard to know what's caused that. If you find curled up feathers, use a sterilized needle to try and work them up and pluck them out. After you express the pus and flush, reapply your triple antibiotic ointment.