Fowl pocks or bully pecks??

[Chicken0223]

Need some advice/help figuring out if this is fowl pox or just pecking marks? These are pics from my two barred rocks.they are pretty top of pecking order between my 7 chickens…so I was surprised at how many sores there are. Either way any advice how to treat either one?? Thank you in advance for any help!

 

[CluckerFamily]

Looks like fowl pox

 

[MysteryChicken]

It's fowl pox.

 

[Chicken0223]

Oh no! What do I do?

 

[CluckerFamily]

Fowl pox comes from mosquitoes.
Once one chicken has fowl pox, they will all get fowl pox.
If you have iodine handy, dab iodine on the scabs. This will help the irrigation they are feeling. But be careful of scabs by their eyes, you don’t want iodine in their eyes.

 

[Chicken0223]

Thank you for the advise. I am so frustrated…I don’t know what I’m doing wrong. It seems that we can’t catch a break. We have 5 Easter eggers, 2 barred rocks, they are 10 months old, and it seems that if it can go wrong, it’s going wrong. a few weeks ago we performed surgery on two of the green queens who had terrible infected bumble foot….dealing with that healing now. (All have the black scab on foot pad though - not all infected). Now, they have fowl pox. Also dealing with a broody hen every month. I don’t know what I’m doing wrong.

they have plenty of room in coop - only having 7 chickens. They were free range but at 20 weeks a hawk got one of them so we built a 20 x 24 run that they are in most of the day. Plenty of room for 7 chickens… fresh water daily, quality feed, I scoop the poop out of the coop every other day, pine shavings in the coop, the run itself is dirt since they ruined all the grass. I have a moving chicken tractor also that we built out of PVC that I will put them in every other day to give them some green grass. If we are outside in the late afternoon we will let them free range as we follow them around. I don’t know why we are dealing with so many problems! It’s very discouraging and frustrating.

 

[Fluffy_Feathers]

Thank you for the advise. I am so frustrated…I don’t know what I’m doing wrong. It seems that we can’t catch a break. We have 5 Easter eggers, 2 barred rocks, they are 10 months old, and it seems that if it can go wrong, it’s going wrong. a few weeks ago we performed surgery on two of the green queens who had terrible infected bumble foot….dealing with that healing now. (All have the black scab on foot pad though - not all infected). Now, they have fowl pox. Also dealing with a broody hen every month. I don’t know what I’m doing wrong.

they have plenty of room in coop - only having 7 chickens. They were free range but at 20 weeks a hawk got one of them so we built a 20 x 24 run that they are in most of the day. Plenty of room for 7 chickens… fresh water daily, quality feed, I scoop the poop out of the coop every other day, pine shavings in the coop, the run itself is dirt since they ruined all the grass. I have a moving chicken tractor also that we built out of PVC that I will put them in every other day to give them some green grass. If we are outside in the late afternoon we will let them free range as we follow them around. I don’t know why we are dealing with so many problems! It’s very discouraging and frustrating.

Fowl pox is something that is very hard to prevent. It's nothing you did wrong. Darn mosquitoes!

If you want, you can try separating her to keep her from spreading it, if she hasn't already, until she's healed. Then clean up the area really well Fowl pox spreads pretty slowly. Though, dry fowl pox isn't usually very concerning. Chance of recovery is high, and they will have immunity to it. There's no treatment for it really that I know of, but you can use antibiotics on the scabs to prevent secondary infection. Just continue to monitor her and the rest of the chickens.

I've never dealt with fowl pox personally, but I just got done researching it for an article on here lol. Hope this helps!

 

[Chicken0223]

Thank you! Encouraging to hear.

 

[Fluffy_Feathers]

How are your chickens doing?

 

[Chicken0223]

Thank you so much for checking! Poppy is back with her flock and eating and drinking normally. I kept her isolated for 48 hours, fed her wet food and gave her vitamins and minerals. She definitely still has fowl pox - but I think with the advise of everyone on here - I was able to help her feel better. I wasn’t sure she was going to make it through the night - thankfully she did. Two are showing signs of fowl pox - the black marks on their waddles, combs and ears. I am keeping the sores clean with Veteycn and rubbing Manuka ointment on them. The one I had in quarantine for 48 hours still has that little yellow speck in her mouth. Just the one tiny one. I am being realistic that the pox will most likely make its way through the whole flock eventually. I am giving them all a small piece of bread soaked in Nutri drench to boost their immune systems to fight the issues daily. Also putting probiotic powder in their water and disinfecting the waterer daily and changing the water and giving them apple cider vinegar in the water. I ordered Oxine and am planning on using a vaporizer to fog them over the weekend - I’ve read wonderful things about it for its anti fungal/ antiviral, etc properties and because it’s been raining here in Northeast Florida for weeks I am concerned they may contract some respiratory infection with their immune system being challenged with the fowl pox virus - maybe I’m being paranoid with everything going on in my flock with fowl pox and bumblefoot - but I want to do everything to be proactive. One is sneezing so I’m on high alert. Any thoughts about anything I’m doing? Anything I should add or change? I’ll be honest - when we decided to start a backyard flock I did not think we’d be dealing with so many issues - we do love them though and they give us lots of hours of enjoyment (and eggs!) - I want to make sure I am doing everything I can for them to keep them healthy.