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I see a lot of lice nits in the scabs, so hopefully the NuStock cream will help take care of some of those.
Have you dusted her with a Permethrin based poultry dust?
As for the scabs. I'm not sure what's causing those, if it's severe infection from the lice coupled with skin irritation and feather cysts, breast blister or if she has some type of cancer.
With such a build up of scabs, I'm not sure if they can safely be removed all at once. Perhaps, a little at a time to soften them up.
I'm going to tag in @azygous for her thoughts, but I'd definitely treat for lice to help her feel more comfortable.
Thank you. I haven’t done permethrin yet but I think we have some hiding in the house somewhere so I will try and find it tomorrow. I’ll also give her a warm soak with some hibiclens mixed in. I also bought some more Nu Stock to apply every few days.
As for the original injury/wound, we have no idea what happened but it seemed to happen suddenly. One day she was completely normal and her spunky self, and then the next we immediately saw something was off, and found the scabs (much smaller than they are now) and some yellowy skin. The biggest one between her legs didn’t even look like it was there, or it was too small to notice under her feathers. I found some more photos we took a few days after discovering the injury last June.