Please help identify what is in my roosters beak!

[Eggcessive]

Here are some more pictures of canker:
https://bitchinchickens.com/2020/07/06/avian-trichomonosis-canker/

 

[Sondraa]

Yikes! I was hoping it would be a “he has this, and this treats it” situation, but with all the respiratory illness possibilities I’m not hopeful.

 

[Sondraa]

I sincerely hope it's not coryza.

 

[Sondraa]

It can live outside the host for 3 days. Wow...note to self always hatch my own birds.

 

[Sierradavette]

I sincerely hope it's not coryza.

I am very worried of that being the case because he presented with respiratory issues two weeks before any of the yellow showed up in his mouth. I’m relatively new at chicken-ing and am wholly not ready to have to cull him and the hen he has been with, but with 7 adults and 13 babies that’ll go out this spring, I think that would be a necessity.

 

[Sierradavette]

Here are some more pictures of canker:
https://bitchinchickens.com/2020/07/06/avian-trichomonosis-canker/

Reading up more on it, it seems a lot of people choose to cull for canker. Even treatment can be a temporary fix if it works?

 

[Sondraa]

You have more than canker going on anyway. If you do cull (never easy) you are going to have to do a deep deep clean and then maybe also wait before using the space they were in because some of the things the rooster may have can survive pretty good attempts to clean them away.

If you decide to treat be ever so careful not to cross contaminate. I hope you have been really careful thus far?

 

[Sondraa]

Honestly...i don't know what I would do. It's tricky. I would feel bad if I culled and my other birds got it anyway. And....if I didn't cull and it spread I would hate myself for not culling. Whatever you choose...make it right for you.

 

[Sierradavette]

You have more than canker going on anyway. If you do cull (never easy) you are going to have to do a deep deep clean and then maybe also wait before using the space they were in because some of the things the rooster may have can survive pretty good attempts to clean them away.

If you decide to treat be ever so careful not to cross contaminate. I hope you have been really careful thus far?

The first few days they were in the same run as my main flock, but in a separate coop/small run inside. Then they moved into their own run beside this flock. They’ve never shared housing or food or water. I am a bit worried about whatever droppings would have been left in the main run. It’s been about two weeks since they’ve been in there. No symptoms in my main flock. It has flooded (literal flood), snowed, and iced all within that time so I’m hoping any bad germs couldn’t survive.

 

[Sondraa]

The first few days they were in the same run as my main flock, but in a separate coop/small run inside. Then they moved into their own run beside this flock. They’ve never shared housing or food or water. I am a bit worried about whatever droppings would have been left in the main run. It’s been about two weeks since they’ve been in there. No symptoms in my main flock. It has flooded (literal flood), snowed, and iced all within that time so I’m hoping any bad germs couldn’t survive.

Oh jeez. I really hope so too. I haven't read how long they are infectious before symptoms show. Have you?