honkhonkbeep
Chirping
- Sep 7, 2021
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Hi friends! I'm pretty sure this is fowl pox, but wanted to get a second opinion. My girl Aubrey has had these for a couple weeks. Behavior is totally normal; weight, crop and appetite are healthy.
My other 3 hens all have noticeably new pecking marks on their combs, but no signs of anything remotely similar to Aubrey's scabs. They're little dots of obvious dried blood. She's the top of the pecking order, but the three younger girls are finally getting big enough to push back from time to time.
I mention this because I'm not ruling out the possibility of these two gnarly scabs being injuries, especially with the coincidental uptick in the other hens' comb scabs, but... they sure look like pox to me. Especially that one by her eye. I would think that two weeks would see pox into the darker stage of the scab, but maybe not. What do y'all think?
My other 3 hens all have noticeably new pecking marks on their combs, but no signs of anything remotely similar to Aubrey's scabs. They're little dots of obvious dried blood. She's the top of the pecking order, but the three younger girls are finally getting big enough to push back from time to time.
I mention this because I'm not ruling out the possibility of these two gnarly scabs being injuries, especially with the coincidental uptick in the other hens' comb scabs, but... they sure look like pox to me. Especially that one by her eye. I would think that two weeks would see pox into the darker stage of the scab, but maybe not. What do y'all think?