In all the years we’ve had chickens (at least a decade) we’ve never had to deal with frostbite. Our 9 year old favorite rooster has frostbite on his wattle and comb. The comb is minor damage. The wattles were extremely swollen and once we warmed them up why’ve been hot to the touch. He’s been...
Hello, I'm quite worried about one of our roosters that we hatched out last August. He's very weak and sits hunched over and droopy. A few days ago it had snowed, so was very cold, and the day after we found him like this, as well as dragging his wings on the ground. I immediately isolated him...
Since it's getting colder here I wanted to rub my girls' combs with Vaseline, when I saw this strange white spot on Phoebe. Does anyone know what this is? I always thought frostbite is darker, thanks!
Back in january I posted about how 3 of our hens plus our rooster had started having combs similar to those during molting that just didn't go away and how we had thought it was just winter combs due to them acting normal. Until a fourth hen had dropped dead out of nowhere wich led us to giving...
Hello. One of my girls has a black spots comb and it obvious spots are missing. We had a snow storm and it was been very cold. Suggestions? 1st time owning chickens. 1st cold spell.