What skin illness is this?

[SkyAJK]

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.

 

[azygous]

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.

 

[azygous]

I meant to ask you if you trimmed some of those butt feathers. They have an abnormal appearance that may be relevant if you haven't done anything to them.

 

[SkyAJK]

Thank you @azygous

This is the first time I see this skin condition. How does she get this infection? How can I prevent it happens to other in the flock?

Yes, I trimmed her feather so that I can put cream on.

This hen does not perch on the bar, she prefer to sleep on the floor since ever.

 

[azygous]

The cause of such local skin infections is usually an injury, some way for bacteria to get past the outer skin layer. Since chickens live in less than sterile conditions, a scratch or a peck from another chicken can invite bacteria to enter even the tiniest wound.

I think if you continue to do what you've been doing plus the added recommendations, you can get this under control in just a few days of effort.

 

[SkyAJK]

The cause of such local skin infections is usually an injury, some way for bacteria to get past the outer skin layer. Since chickens live in less than sterile conditions, a scratch or a peck from another chicken can invite bacteria to enter even the tiniest wound.

I think if you continue to do what you've been doing plus the added recommendations, you can get this under control in just a few days of effort.

Thank you @azygous I have done the first soaked this morning. I don't have hot compress so I am going to buy it this morning.

I clean my chicken coops, floor, run every morning, and pick up their poops several times a day. Add new bedding material before bed and it is done every day like this & still she got this infection.

 

[azygous]

You don't "buy" hot compresses. Use a cotton rag or wash cloth. Run some hot water, stick a cooking thermometer in it to be sure it's not over 42C or just stick your wrist in it to make sure it won't burn, then squeeze the excess water out of the rag and hold it on the red patch of skin until it cools. Repeat several times.

Is that clear? Hot compresses are an old fashioned and cost free way to draw infection out of a wound. It's probably the last free medical treatment there is left in this world of profit at all costs.

Try to do the compresses right after you've done a soak.