What is this Scabby & Enlarged Thing on Roo's Chest?

[Acre4Me]

Day 6: no pics, we were in a hurry and had to go somewhere tonight. No soak, but we brought Rooster in and examined his growth/protrusion. It looks better. We rinsed with sterile saline, swabbed with betadine. Dried all that with the hair dryer, then applied neosporin. Gauze+vet wrap for overnight protection.

The protrusion is smaller, and now seems to have a small area of firmness inside. But, it still has areas that are healing, so that might be contributing. Amazing how well he’s responding to just 1x daily wound attention. But, many animals tend to heal quickly as a matter of self preservation, and we have put him on a faster track with the wound care.

Tomorrow we will hopefully examine and maybe remove puss. Should have the adult helper. Will try to take pics of yucky yellow puss.

 

[Shamo Hybrid]

Looks like an alien trying to come out of his body......

 

[Acre4Me]

Looks like an alien trying to come out of his body......

Yes, it’s pretty freaky looking!

 

[Acre4Me]

The puss pockets were drained!!! Sorry no pics bc I didn't do it. I took tween to an activity and when we got back, spouse was scrubbing down the utility room counter and sink while wearing safety glasses. We wondered what the safety glasses were for and spouse replied they didn't want chicken puss in their eye!

Spouse opened up the puss areas and squeezed out about 4 good chunks of puss. A little blood, but not too much. Rinsed with sterile saline, followed by betadine, and antibiotic cream, gauze pad and vet wrap. So we will see what it looks like tomorrow. Gold star for spouse!

Interestingly, we also picked up some chicks today, from the same hatchery where we got the BJG with this injury. We had a chance to chat, showed the owner/breeder the pics and he said its a breast blister. Further chatting indicated that having the roost wide side up (the wide side of a 2x4) was the culprit as it causes the birds weight to rest on keel bone and then the rubbing creates the problem, etc. So, we will be turning the roost bars to be on the narrow side soon.

 

[Eggcessive]

Yea, that is great the pus is out! For what it is worth, I have only seen one breast blister in 8 years of chickens with 2x4 roosts with the wide side up. The breast blister was on a rooster on a 2x2 roost bar in a breeding pen who was being bullied by the other two in the large pen, and he never came off the roost.

Since it gets cold where you live, I would keep the roosts with the wide side up to allow the chickens to lie on their feet in freezing weather. You can easily pad your roosts with carpet or old towels. But that is up to you.

 

[Chick-N-Fun]

Great news!
A big high five to your dear husband!

 

[NewBoots]

So glad it hear it's going so well! As far as the 2x4 perches go, I'm not sure what to think at the point. I've heard narrow side up and flat side up with good arguments for both.

 

[staceyj]

I can’t wait to see pic soon tomorrow!
Did he happen see any folded up feathers in there?

And bleeding “some” is okay! You don’t want to see GUSHING, but SOME bleeding is actually an excellent sign of viable, healthy tissue in there!

 

[MissChick@dee]

I can’t wait for the “after” pictures.
I think the size of the bird is a factor too. I use 2x4’s wide side. I have a 4” round dowel from Home Depot. I use it mostly out side.
When you’ve got a big heavy bird ya got to be careful of perches too high too skinny...reminds me of “Goldilocks & the 3 bears”

 

[Molpet]

I have had a couple of part CX that had breast blisters at 16 wks, roosting on wide side of 2x4