Yellow stuff in throat

[Smileybans]

This is my light Brahma hen about 17 weeks old. She was making a weird noise today, kinda like a cough, and her cluck sounded rough. So I took a look inside her throat and saw this.

Sorry for the bad images but it’s hard to get a good shot. They’re yellow puss looking things on the back of her throat.
I have her and three other hens in a quarantine area and because of the snow they haven’t been leaving their coop much. I checked my main flock and didn’t see these yellow puss type things in them.
I looked on the internet and saw it could be many things. She isn’t sneezing and only making that cough sound. She has no black spots on her that I can see. I tried to record her making noise but with her in my arms she went quiet. Here’s the video anyway so you can get kind of the idea. Any way you guys could narrow down what this is? Is it cankers? Should I treat everyone she is in with or the whole flock?

 

[Eggcessive]

It could be the begiining signs of canker (histomonosis) if it smells bad. But yellow caseinous material can sometimes be seen in respiratory diseases, especially in the windpipe, and in wet fowl pox. Did you see any dry fowl pox in late summer or fall in your flock? A vet could take a scraping and identify the material, so that you would know if a medicine would help treat it.

Fish Zole or metronidazole and ronidazole are 2 drugs that treat canker in birds. Fish Zole is availabe online, and dosage is 250 mg daily given by mouth for 5-7 days. Thyme extract is another treatment sometimes used. Acidified copper sulfate 1/4 tsp per gallon of water can be used for 3 days each month as a preventative treatment for canker.

Have you seen any respiratory symptoms before? I would try to get a vet to first diagnose the cause and then go from there. If the yellow plques grow large and smell rotten, then it most likely is canker. Canker can affect the crop and block the airway. Here is some reading:
https://www.chickenvet.co.uk/oral-canker
http://www.poultrydvm.com/condition/canker

 

[Smileybans]

It could be the begiining signs of canker (histomonosis) if it smells bad. But yellow caseinous material can sometimes be seen in respiratory diseases, especially in the windpipe, and in wet fowl pox. Did you see any dry fowl pox in late summer or fall in your flock? A vet could take a scraping and identify the material, so that you would know if a medicine would help treat it.

Fish Zole or metronidazole and ronidazole are 2 drugs that treat canker in birds. Fish Zole is availabe online, and dosage is 250 mg daily given by mouth for 5-7 days. Thyme extract is another treatment sometimes used. Acidified copper sulfate 1/4 tsp per gallon of water can be used for 3 days each month as a preventative treatment for canker.

Have you seen any respiratory symptoms before? I would try to get a vet to first diagnose the cause and then go from there. If the yellow plques grow large and smell rotten, then it most likely is canker. Canker can affect the crop and block the airway. Here is some reading:
https://www.chickenvet.co.uk/oral-canker
http://www.poultrydvm.com/condition/canker

I’ve only had these birds for about two months. I’ve had them in quarantine and they seemed fine. No respiratory issues and no sign of dry pox when I got them. There’s been some sneezing in my main flock but I checked their throats and they didn’t have this stuff. As far as I could tell she didn’t smell. But the yellow bumps were still small.
I’ll call a vet in the morning and see if I can get them to come out an look at her. I’d rather know what I’m treating than blanket treat and not have it work. Especially since my main flock has had some sneezing going on and it’s been really wet here. The snow has been melting and freezing and causing all kinds of soggy run issues. Thank you.

 

[Eggcessive]

You are welcome. Ask the vet also if he could take a culture to send off for MG or other respiratory diseases. Yeast infection (candida albicans,) a fungus can sometimes cause whitish plques inside the beak and throat. Hopefully, you can get some answers. If you should lose her someday, you could get a necropsy through Cornell Vet School to find out what she had. Let us know what the vet has to say.

 

[Smileybans]

@Eggcessive
Vet came out and said it was fungal. She said that we could do the swab but it would be like $130 just to do the testing. So if she could see right away that it was fungal then we didn’t need to do the test. I said okay. I’m glad I called her though. One of the birds had mite eggs and the brahmas were skinny. I think the marans don’t let them eat as much. I’m going to start giving them fermented feed, as well as their regular feed, and I put a dust bath in with them. The dust bath has DE in it. She said their crop was unhappy too. Probably because they’re not eating as much. She recommended ACV in their water. I just started it yesterday. I do it with all my other birds but forgot with these guys I guess. I feel much better having called her. And it didn’t cost an arm and a leg. So glad you recommended it because I probably would have waited and not called. They had a lot more going on than I thought.

 

[LaFleche]

$130 just to do the testing.

Goodness!

You could do the swaps with some other lab and pay much less.

 

[Smileybans]

Goodness!

You could do the swaps with some other lab and pay much less.

Well now I know. I didn’t know that. But I think the cost is why she was hoping it was fungal. She said the state pays for some of the testing but not all of it. After all she told me was wrong with them I’m not surprised it’s fungal. Not going to buy birds from Craigslist ever again. Got them healthy but I’ve had better luck hatching my own than with already started birds.

 

[Eggcessive]

Glad that you saw the vet. If it is a fungal infection such as candida or aspergillosis, it is not infectious which is good for the other flock members.

 

[Smileybans]

She checked everyone else in with this bird and she was the only one that had it. She also looked at the rest of my flock and asked about them. She said everyone else looked good and to keep an eye on the silkies who are sneezing a bit. Only sneezing though. So she wasn’t worried.