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Quote: Thanks Kris! I did take out an apple for the girls so I could "medicate" Ophelia and keep the others off me (they're horrid, pushy little beggars). After I finished with her, I came inside and looked out the window...I noticed that Ophelia was eating a chunk of apple and Ruby (my BO)...

Well, I just went outside to put Bag Balm on Ophelia's comb (I feel like I have to do something) and I now think these are peck marks, thanks to you all. When I looked very closely, the edges of the black marks were jagged and I even saw some "swipes" of black (rather thand dots), which look...

Quote: Hi Kris, Yes, she's at the bottom...but I don't think these are peck marks. You're right, the pics of avian pox that I've seen show very round looking marks. These have weird edges and shapes. I gasped when I saw her comb this morning; it looks so horrible. Now that I think about it...

Quote: Yes, she definitely gets picked on...chased and such. She's at the bottom of the heap in my flock. But all the girls have them, and these are not blood spots that fall off. I've tried rubbing them, and they don't come off. Amy

Thanks Ozark...I appreciate your help. At least I know someone's reading this! I definitely don't think it's frostbite. The area started out looking like white mold on her comb, with only a few black spots...and now this. I just need to know if this is dangerous, or contagious, or...

Hi Ozark, The pictures that I've seen of frostbite seem to occur near the tips of the comb (just like in humans, the toes freeze first). These are black spots that appear random, some at the base of the comb and some near the eye (all my girls have them). Thoughts??? Oh, and that link didn't...

Someone recently posted about black spots on their hens' combs, and I also had the same problem. My girls (8 months old) all have small black specks on their combs. Well, this morning when I went to let them out, my poor Ophelia's comb is in bad shape; it's half black, and she also now has...