Hi all.

 

I have been paying attention to my birds as they are moulting at the moment. Checking especially for bald patches and any unusually feather loss. Anyway, today i noticed a big large growth or lump on my biggest hen, right above here cere. I caught her to check it out, and it is actually sort of partly over or intruding onto here cere and blocking off her right nostril a tiny tiny fraction.

 

It is red, solid and appears to have a yellow (*****?) inside. I didnt want to try and squeeze it or pierce it without first finding out what people might think of it and if anyone has had them before.

 

Excuse the picture quality, i sort of rushed the photos as she wasnt too keen on them

 

Thoughts? Recommendations?

 

This is her yesterday, no or little signs of feather disturbance, let alone a lump:

 

today:

 

 

 

Possible blocked feather follicle / feather cyst ?

fistula related to sinus infection?

I coated the growth with parraffin oil to soften it overnight then took a stab at it the next day. The yellow part of the lump had grown bigger and looked like a ball of yellow, pierced it with a sterilised needle thinking to try and squeeze it and see what happened. However when i pierced it (vertically across the width, not towards her brain!), i noticed it move as a whole and it appeared to be seperating from her skull. I put the needle down and gently moved the lump and saw it was coming away, so i plucked it off fully and it came away cleanly leaving a reasonably large cavity behind.

 

Flushed the cavity with saline, cleaned with a saline soaked cotton bud then added some hydrogen peroxide. It looked much better by the end of it all, and i checked her today and its healing up quite nicely.