Lerdawerd
In the Brooder
- Aug 16, 2019
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Hello!
Edit: may have black spots appearing towards the bottom of wattle if you look at the close up picture below. Poop seems to be normal, not runny or anything unless cecal poop.
So, a bit of backstory. A girl I worked with had bought two chicks for her kids as family pets and they were kept inside the house even as they feathered out, and were pooping all over the place and would eat their poop everyday, and they were fed things like nacho cheese, etc.. her landlord showed up and said she needed to get rid of the remaining rooster(one died). She asked if I could take it because I live in the country so I talked to one of my friends who had chickens and he said he would take him. when I made it back home with the rooster I guess he had changed his mind so I tried to find him a home oh, that didn't work, so we built a coop in a little yard and he's been our pet ever since. He is about 6 months old, and I was told he was a rooster when he was given to me.
I am inexperienced with chickens, and now I'm starting to wonder if he is a hen? Or maybe a rooster that doesn't feel so good. He is on pellet feed for his age, he seems to eat it well, he does get free range food as a snack or treat along with mealworms, and he free ranges out in the yard all day. His comb is very small, and whenever I look up pictures black australorps, which is what I think he is, he almost looks more like the hens? I do not have any other chickens to compare him to.
A few weeks ago, maybe a month or so I started to notice little black spots on his comb, it didn't seem to be bothering him and I didn't think anything was wrong or that that was abnormal at the time it does look more black now than it did then, very slowly, and so I was wondering is he growing hair or something so I googled and I found that maybe it could be frostbite. is it normal for chickens to get frostbite in the summer? We have not had very low temps may be the lowest I've seen was 35 to 40 degrees Fahrenheit. his coop is not very well insulated so we are going to try to get that fixed on Sunday, but even while it was cool out one night, I poked my head in his coop and it actually seems kind of warm so I figured it wasn't cold enough to affect him even with the uninsulated coop.
Can someone experienced please help give me some advice, I bought a natural salve to put on his comb in case it's frostbite, but does anybody else agree that this is frostbite in the summer? Also, do you more experienced think that this may be a hen that due to frostbite may be sick and not laying eggs yet, or do you believe that this is a rooster who is comb is not growing due to frostbite?
thank you in advance for any help or advice given, I feel seriously bad about not looking up the black on his comb earlier and being more diligent about it.
Edit: may have black spots appearing towards the bottom of wattle if you look at the close up picture below. Poop seems to be normal, not runny or anything unless cecal poop.
So, a bit of backstory. A girl I worked with had bought two chicks for her kids as family pets and they were kept inside the house even as they feathered out, and were pooping all over the place and would eat their poop everyday, and they were fed things like nacho cheese, etc.. her landlord showed up and said she needed to get rid of the remaining rooster(one died). She asked if I could take it because I live in the country so I talked to one of my friends who had chickens and he said he would take him. when I made it back home with the rooster I guess he had changed his mind so I tried to find him a home oh, that didn't work, so we built a coop in a little yard and he's been our pet ever since. He is about 6 months old, and I was told he was a rooster when he was given to me.
I am inexperienced with chickens, and now I'm starting to wonder if he is a hen? Or maybe a rooster that doesn't feel so good. He is on pellet feed for his age, he seems to eat it well, he does get free range food as a snack or treat along with mealworms, and he free ranges out in the yard all day. His comb is very small, and whenever I look up pictures black australorps, which is what I think he is, he almost looks more like the hens? I do not have any other chickens to compare him to.
A few weeks ago, maybe a month or so I started to notice little black spots on his comb, it didn't seem to be bothering him and I didn't think anything was wrong or that that was abnormal at the time it does look more black now than it did then, very slowly, and so I was wondering is he growing hair or something so I googled and I found that maybe it could be frostbite. is it normal for chickens to get frostbite in the summer? We have not had very low temps may be the lowest I've seen was 35 to 40 degrees Fahrenheit. his coop is not very well insulated so we are going to try to get that fixed on Sunday, but even while it was cool out one night, I poked my head in his coop and it actually seems kind of warm so I figured it wasn't cold enough to affect him even with the uninsulated coop.
Can someone experienced please help give me some advice, I bought a natural salve to put on his comb in case it's frostbite, but does anybody else agree that this is frostbite in the summer? Also, do you more experienced think that this may be a hen that due to frostbite may be sick and not laying eggs yet, or do you believe that this is a rooster who is comb is not growing due to frostbite?
thank you in advance for any help or advice given, I feel seriously bad about not looking up the black on his comb earlier and being more diligent about it.
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