What skin illness is this?

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Hi

I found this sick skin condition on my hen Adzuki yesterday.

There are 3 skin colour on her tummy from the vent downward. The normal skin colour, the un-natural cream colour and the red brown colour. It looks like some sort of bad skin condition. Attached photos.

I gave Adzuki an epsom salt bath, then applied antisceptic cream on her skin.
Adzuki for no reason had stopped laying egg, but still going to the nestbox every day as if she is still laying egg.

I don't know what sort of illness is this and how to treat it. Please help and thank you in advance.
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It appears to be a localized bacterial infection. You're doing the correct thing to treat it. Continue the soaks, but add hot compresses to the site after the soak.

Use hot water up to 42C, no hotter or it will burn. Add a wound disinfectant to the soak water along with the Epsom salts. After a fifteen minute soak to open the pores, apply the hot compresses, refreshing the compresses frequently to keep them hot. This will help reduce the bacteria in the deeper layers.

Do the soaks a few times a day for at least two days and see if that improves the condition. She may require an oral antibiotic if the soaks and compresses don't work.
 

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