Thanks for the info. all I know is my friend trimmed her roos frost bit comb and he bleed to death, now she probably did something wrong I wasn't there so I don't know but I don't think I could do it for fear of that happening.
I put blue kote on my one roos wattle the other night where it looked like the girls had been giving him love bites[silly girls] I put a towel around his body and then covered his face all but his wattles and sprayed, but you have to remember that towel is no good for much except that now. but...
I have a question for ya, the coop is well ventalated but they go out in the below freezing weather will they not get frost bite from being exposed to that kind of temps. It doesn't matter how cold my chickens come out, and some stay out. So far no frostbite. But I have been putting bag balm on...
I am with you HeatherLynn, bout made me sick too, are you putting neosporin on it? I don't think you have anything to worry about if it's a small amount and your treating it and keeping an eye on it.
Thanks for posting Cuban Longtails, It was very interesting and now each of us can decide for ourselves if this is something we want to do to our birds.
The Vet should have said that, removing the roo for sure! you have done everything right including removal, chickens love blood and will surely be drawn to those bloody places. keep up the good work and for sharing.
Has anyone ever experienced this, yesterday went to put up my chickens when I noticed my little bantam roos wattles looked like they were bloody. Brought him in and cleaned him up had alot of blood on the front of his feathers and his wattles were raw and had been bleeding, I washed him good...
I think before we start thinking about cutting off the part of our roos comb because of frost bite we better know what we're doing, theres alot of blood in that area, as for me I wouldn't want my roos to bleed to death because i didn't know what I was doing. If someone has done this before...