Weird masses on bantam chicken

[Khuno]

A bit ago I posted on here asking for help with my bantam hen. She had an injury near her tail with a large lump, assuming it was just inflammation, I tried letting her heal. But, what’s weird is that today I was checking her over and I found another large… yet green… mass on her thigh? I can grab it and it’s about the size of a grape, yet it’s sort of flat. It has these yellow flakes on top of the skin that bleed when peeled. She has trouble walking and stumbles a lot.

I’m honestly stumped as to what it is! I’m planning on getting her a vet appointment, but I might as well see what others think too.

 

[Debbie292d]

I believe @2ndTink had something like this occurring on one of her chickens. She has Marek's in her flock, but tumors from Marek's are internal, not external and she ruled that out I believe. I'm not sure if she ever figured it out.

I would wash it though with mild soap and water or Epson salt water and put Neosporin or triple antibiotic ointment on it. Then give her/them Nutradrench, Poultry Cell, or some poultry vitamin water every other day for a week to help her battle whatever it is.

Do you have mosquitos there? Pox manifests on unfeathered areas, like their faces, but in rare cases, it can occur on feet or legs. That was according to Mercks

 

[2ndTink]

The green could be bruising of the skin, these lumps are different than my pullet had. I did put mine down but didn't do a necropsy, one of my local friends had see what my chicken had before and said it was caused by Mareks.

Your's is different. I'd do as Debbie suggested, if you can get her to a poultry vet would be good.

Is she eating? Is she loosing weight? How old is she?

If she was recently injured, do you think a bacterial infection could have gotten into her and be spreading?

 

[Khuno]

I believe @2ndTink had something like this occurring on one of her chickens. She has Marek's in her flock, but tumors from Marek's are internal, not external and she ruled that out I believe. I'm not sure if she ever figured it out.

I would wash it though with mild soap and water or Epson salt water and put Neosporin or triple antibiotic ointment on it. Then give her/them Nutradrench, Poultry Cell, or some poultry vitamin water every other day for a week to help her battle whatever it is.

Do you have mosquitos there? Pox manifests on unfeathered areas, like their faces, but in rare cases, it can occur on feet or legs. That was according to Mercks

I will definitely do that! I love this girl so it hurts to see her like this.

I do have mosquitoes around here. We live by a swamp, granted it’s a couple yards away

 

[2ndTink]

I will definitely do that! I love this girl so it hurts to see her like this.

I do have mosquitoes around here. We live by a swamp, granted it’s a couple yards away

Hmm, I have read some info about mosquito carried viruses recently. For Mareks there are some people researching and using Chinese Skullcap to inhibit the replication of the virus, I've been curious if that would also work on other viruses as well.

It's never easy to have a chicken not feeling well.

 

[Khuno]

The green could be bruising of the skin, these lumps are different than my pullet had. I did put mine down but didn't do a necropsy, one of my local friends had see what my chicken had before and said it was caused by Mareks.

Your's is different. I'd do as Debbie suggested, if you can get her to a poultry vet would be good.

Is she eating? Is she loosing weight? How old is she?

If she was recently injured, do you think a bacterial infection could have gotten into her and be spreading?

She’s eating and drinking perfectly fine and maintaining a steady weight. As far as I know, she hasn’t gotten injured at all which is why I was stumped. I believe she’s only a couple months away from being a year? I got her from a family member so I’m not sure her exact age unfortunately

 

[Debbie292d]

I will definitely do that! I love this girl so it hurts to see her like this.

I do have mosquitoes around here. We live by a swamp, granted it’s a couple yards away

Then Pox is a definite possibility, but still not for certain that's it.

We also have mosquito issues.
We have a creek down the hill behind our home that floods over in the spring and makes puddles everywhere...perfect breeding grounds for mosquitos.

We sprinkle First Saturday's Lime all around the creek that's on our property, about 2.5 acres long, then sprinkle it in and around all of the swamp it makes. The FSL is safe for fish, frogs, etc., but it kills mosquito larvae.

The other thing we do is there are these things called mosquito dunks. We bought a pack of 12. We break them in half and put each half into a 5-gallon bucket half full of water. We make four such buckets and put them along the hill, on stumps or bricks so chickens can't jump up to them. That stuff draws the female mosquitos to lay their eggs in there, and they all die.

The third thing is we have two bug zappers. The chickens love when we clean those out as they usually have moths and in season, some June bugs.

 

[Eggcessive]

Is the third picture near her preen gland at the base of the tail? Green is usually bruising from being pecked or injured.

 

[Khuno]

Is the third picture near her preen gland at the base of the tail? Green is usually bruising from being pecked or injured.

Yes, but she has been separated from the flock for a few weeks now. When I first noticed she was acting weird is when I pulled her and found the first bump by her tail


The new green bump has turned normal colored and is reducing in size after an epson salt bath! Same with the lump by her tail

 

[MysteryChicken]

I believe @2ndTink had something like this occurring on one of her chickens. She has Marek's in her flock, but tumors from Marek's are internal, not external and she ruled that out I believe. I'm not sure if she ever figured it out.

I would wash it though with mild soap and water or Epson salt water and put Neosporin or triple antibiotic ointment on it. Then give her/them Nutradrench, Poultry Cell, or some poultry vitamin water every other day for a week to help her battle whatever it is.

Do you have mosquitos there? Pox manifests on unfeathered areas, like their faces, but in rare cases, it can occur on feet or legs. That was according to Mercks

There's a strain of Marek's Disease that does produce tumors on the feather follicles.