SidChick
Chirping
- Aug 4, 2016
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Where is your location?
Did they fight, cuts and blood?
Could be frostbite anywhere there was water/fluid(like blood from fighting) on tissue.
We live in Kansas. It has been below freezing lately. Indoors, they are heated, so only when they venture out should they be affected. Last night I shut the door to outside completely, so they will only be indoors from now on. Very sad. I have a hard time imagining the two boys fighting. They are buddies. I can't say what they do when I'm not looking though. They would not be wet from water, as they drink from a hanging bucket with nipples. No dipping the wattles. If they were wet from blood, then maybe they got frostbitten. I've not owned chickens before this flock. It's all new. There are twelve that have all been raised together. Am I right to assume then that the black appearance is not simply scabbing, and it's likely frostbite? Will the wattles fall off??? Do they regrow?? My daughter plans to show this boy in 4-H next summer..