Diagnose these strange warts

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Oct 28, 2024
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Some time ago my silkies hatched over a dozen eggs but after a few months, 4 of my silkie chicks have recently started growing these weird warts. I can't find anything similar or related to what they have so I am asking if anyone can diagnose what it is and how to cure it.

The other 3 have the same thing but not as extreme, all of them have it around their eyes and on their beak, some warts look cracked. They're soft to the touch.

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It is probably fowl pox, a virus spread by mosquitoes. In silkies, the black skin makes it look different. It lasts about a month, but chicks have a harder time. Make sure to feed and water them when they have scabs and swelling blocking their eyes. You can paint Betadine 10% on their scabs away from eyes, to help dry the scabs out. If any appear very sick, look inside the beaks for any yellow lesions that could be wet pox. That is much more serious and deadly. Here is some reading:
https://the-chicken-chick.com/fowl-pox-prevention-treatmen/
 
It is probably fowl pox, a virus spread by mosquitoes. In silkies, the black skin makes it look different. It lasts about a month, but chicks have a harder time. Make sure to feed and water them when they have scabs and swelling blocking their eyes. You can paint Betadine 10% on their scabs away from eyes, to help dry the scabs out. If any appear very sick, look inside the beaks for any yellow lesions that could be wet pox. That is much more serious and deadly. Here is some reading:
https://the-chicken-chick.com/fowl-pox-prevention-treatmen/
Was also considering fowl pox but their bumps look completely different to any image of fowl pox I have seen. Theres only 4-3 on each of the chicks faces, usually only half a cm in width, except for the one pictured which has the most extreme case of it. For some reason the warts are donut shaped, none of them are scabbed, they are all the same skin colored unlike the white or black ones I saw in other cases.

They aren't lethargic or have a lesser appetite and are otherwise acting as normal.

Worried if it's anything else
 
Can you get some more photos, of the "donuts". And of the "top/inside" of this one's comb?

Each one has a circle with a "center" that is scabby. Have you put any ointment or anti-fungal cream on the scabby centers to see if they heal up?

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Can you get some more photos, of the "donuts". And of the "top/inside" of this one's comb?

Each one has a circle with a "center" that is scabby. Have you put any ointment or anti-fungal cream on the scabby centers to see if they heal up?

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I haven't tried anything special so far and have only separated them from the rest of the chickens since I'm dubious if it's just cowl pox or something else.

The white one is the 2nd most pronounced case, but his aren't as circular, more cracked and are slightly yellow, while the others have smaller, rounder/ donut shaped, black skinned warts similar to the first one.

They are soft but firm, the centers have a small yellow brown scab look like the comb example of the first chick.

Can't find any other explanations for warts on chickens other than fowl pox but seems strange to me that they look like this.
 

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Those looks like abscesses. I have never seen them quite like this in a chicken, but I have seen them in rabbits. My guess is that there is a thick yellow/off white puss under all of that. Usually they require being cleaned out, iodine flushes and at good antibiotic.
 
Went to a veterinarian that specialized in poultry and didn't figure out much without a flesh sample being inspected.

So far only know that it might just be a weird wart from fowl pox and I got some ENROX antibiotics for it.

apparently there's a fowl pox outbreak currently happening in my country
 

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