Experts .. What Is It??
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Experts .. What Is It??
She's been a loner all spring and has an unusually dark blue head with all those large growths on her upper heck & head area.
Kind of unique and ugly in it's own way
ever wonder where the white goes when the snow melts??
Re: Experts .. What Is It??
I have no idea, Could wood ticks do that ?
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Re: Experts .. What Is It??
She must hop around a lot. Probably some kind of tumor or maybe something penetrated her neck & became abscessed.
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Re: Experts .. What Is It??
Where's her other leg? lol
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Re: Experts .. What Is It??
Right in line with the other one ... it isn't any worse than the original pic.
Wish the toms around here were 1 legged, like that would matter
ever wonder where the white goes when the snow melts??
Re: Experts .. What Is It??
I looked it up and it can be carried and transferred by mosquitos and barn flies, looks pretty nasty to me.
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Re: Experts .. What Is It??
1 legged avian pox infested hen. I looked it up. That’s what I found. It also says that a gobbler will still breed her cause some don’t care (just like humans) and she will still lay eggs and raise them
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Re: Experts .. What Is It??
pox it is. I killed a hen with my bow some years back, in the fall , that looked like that, the only turkey I've killed with my bow. I was deer hunting, disturbed a flock going in, they started calling, I whistled her in. I think the pox may have helped in her not seeing me draw .... .....and she was tasty as I recall...
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Re: Experts .. What Is It??
It is not necessarily avian pox. There are other conditions that cause that. I killed a gobbler last year that had growths like that and a foot that was badly infected. I assumed pox but contacted TWRA and they took the head and sent it off for testing. The report is below.
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Re: Experts .. What Is It??
Here’s one I sent off last year for a necropsy, came back confirmed as pox.
Necropsy for above hen
I also killed this longbeard years ago which was infected.
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Thanks for the info gang!! Must be what the gal has.
I really thought she was one of last springs hens and don't know for sure if she's settin' or not.
The other hen came in late yesterday with her to feed at the bird feeder and she was already there 3 or 4 times yesterday!!
I really thought she was one of last springs hens and don't know for sure if she's settin' or not.
The other hen came in late yesterday with her to feed at the bird feeder and she was already there 3 or 4 times yesterday!!
ever wonder where the white goes when the snow melts??
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Re: Experts .. What Is It??
In most cases, avian pox is most prevalent after the emergence of mosquitoes, the vector source, in the Spring. The pox is usually non-lethal in the "dry" form and may leave scabby lesions on the head, neck, or legs of infected birds at the bite sites. The pox is not spread from bird to bird, and once the infection has run it's course, the bird usually has a life-time immunity to the virus.
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Quite interesting as we have very few skitters here, as it dries down early
But then again, I don't know where this hen was all last summer .. fall .. and winter, till' she migrated back here to nest or be here, along with the other 4 hens I've seen
But then again, I don't know where this hen was all last summer .. fall .. and winter, till' she migrated back here to nest or be here, along with the other 4 hens I've seen
ever wonder where the white goes when the snow melts??
Re: Experts .. What Is It??
I've seen 'em like that before,...that's why you always carry a paper bag to put over their head...
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I'm not sure but it only looks to have one leg.
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O.K. for you doubting Thomas' as' .. click on the pic. to enlarge it and she's the one on the left and if you will......Notice the 2 legs and not 1
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Re: Experts .. What Is It??
Did you Photoshop that second leg in???soiltester wrote:
O.K. for you doubting Thomas' as' .. click on the pic. to enlarge it and she's the one on the left and if you will......Notice the 2 legs and not 1
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If I could I sure would have made it have 3 or 4 legsBuckmark13 wrote: ↑March 21st, 2018, 10:17 pmDid you Photoshop that second leg in???soiltester wrote:IMG_1900.JPG
O.K. for you doubting Thomas' as' .. click on the pic. to enlarge it and she's the one on the left and if you will......Notice the 2 legs and not 1
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ever wonder where the white goes when the snow melts??