frost bite

Hi all. Longtime lurker (learner) here, first time seeking advice/opinions. We have recently come out of a deep freeze that saw sustained temps in the -30’s celcius (-30’s F for my American friends) lasting about 10 days. I’ve had little issue with frostbite in winters past but we added a...

We live in Arizona so it hasn’t gotten cold here maybe lowest 65-70 at night just recently and I noticed one of our chickens comb is getting black. I know how important chickens combs are and especially in the summer since it helps regulate body temperature. He’s the only one we have with the...

Hi all! This is our first winter with our backyard flock up in Vermont. We are approaching a cold front with temperatures at -25°. Because of the cold temperatures I do have a small radiant coop heater from tractor supply store in with them at night however they Are out in a runner most of the...

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...

I have 19 hens and no roosters all of them are coming up on 2 years old. One of my chicken has some big bald spots on her back that are getting worse and I'm looking for some advice. I'm gonna be setting up a separate area for her so I can seperate her from the flock but if there's something I...

Help! Essen got frostbit really badly! I don't know how to help him. He had a heat lamp on in the coop and everything. It doesn't seem to bother him, but it has to hurt.

Hello, this is my first winter keeping chickens and I’m pretty sure my cockerel (6mo Faverolles) has frostbite in his comb. Last week, I was pretty sick after getting my COVID vaccine booster, and I didn’t clean their coop as well as I should have. I left the air vent closed and didn’t clean up...

I am completely new to chicken keeping, I have 4 hens and two roosters. All my chickens are a little over 5 months old and acting completely normal. Still eating, laying and running around like normal. Over the past few days I noticed one of my roosters developing these scab things on his comb...

When I saw my chicken this morning (11am I accidentally slept in) I noticed her comb was purple (only the top half.) What does this mean? What should I do? Yesterday she didn’t eat much food which is odd for her and she hasn’t laid an egg in over a week. Please help me. Her energy is good and...

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!

I have a polish chicken that got frost bite on both of her feet last winter and lost them. She can’t walk but can hobble fly to the food and watering dish. I don’t want her to hate her life but I also don’t want to put her down. I take her outside on nice days so she gets some sun. And it seems...

Hi, need to know if I’m being dramatic or if this chicken’s comb looks like it has the beginnings of frostbite? We definitely have good ventilation in the coop and outside weather is around 30degF. No other chickens have discolored combs, this one has been sick recently and is small. thanks

I’m going to attach pictures tomorrow and post something a little more descriptive, but wondered if anyone could help me at the moment. I’ve got a Barred Rock that seems to possibly be getting sick. Not 100% sure about that, but the last few days she’s been a bit lethargic. she’s been the very...

Yesterday he was totally fine but the temperature was below zero most of the day/night yesterday too. He doesn’t seem to be in any pain and I can still see some red under the purple (if that makes sense) What should I do? I’ve never dealt with frostbite this severe before. He’s also a Batam so...

Hi all, I'm new to chickens and can use some help. This is Ms. Red who is 8 months old and from Flagstaff AZ. Flagstaff is not your typical Arizona warm sunny weather. We live in the mountains where it's super dry and snowy and drops below freezing almost every wintery night. Red sleeps with...

Last week I discovered my 6 red sex links had taken to pecking each others vents, 3 of them were bleeding. I seperated them, cleaned them up the best I could and sprayed all six bottoms with blu-kote. after a couple of days I was able to re-introduce 2 back with the others, but had to keep the...

I do not have electricity for my coop or run... I have put out straw and hay in the run... I have fine pine shavings in their coop... I go out each day and toss each to keep it fluffed and not matted... But tonight, it has dropped to 13 degrees...I have brought out warm to hot oatmeal each...

Ravenwood by Katebd posted Dec 17, 2019 at 8:16 AMSo, based on images, I really believe that we have one chicken in our flock which has favus and not frostbite..it is white on the tips of the back of her comb..it has been cold, but not cold enough for frostbite I don't think. I will post a pic...

Ah, help! My chicken has a foot that's frozen. She sounds like a pirate. Still using it to gimp along but it's STIFF. What do I do? try to slowly warm it up? She's hanging with the flock, eating and drinking like nothings wrong. We've never had this problem before in the 3 winters we've...

This is my second winter with chickens and here in Michigan, we have been dealing with some very strange and cold weather; because of this, I have been struggling with frostbite most of this winter. I have been monitoring all of my chickens everyday to make sure everything is looking ok but...