pale comb

  1. T

    What’s going on with this hen?

    I just picked up this hen (along with 5 others) from someone for free. The lady claims she is 2 years old. She has insanely scaly legs. 2 of the other hens also have scaly legs but nothing compared to this girl. She also has a pale comb, puffy eyelids, and her pupils are not black like all of my...
  2. J

    Sick Chick and Not Sure Why

    I have a Buff Orpington about 1 1/2 years old and a bit on the small side relative to the others chickens of the same breed. For nearly a week she has been relatively idle, wings drooping, and she just sits and does nothing. As of yesterday, though idle, she still ate and drank. Her waddle looks...
  3. OhioChickenChoreLady

    911 help sick chicken

    I have a 3 year old Plymouth rock, she has been laying around, with a pale comb, runny white poop almost clear, and closing her eyes. now she has isolated herself, only at night and now during the day. the weather is hot here in northeast Ohio, I gave her a bath and dried her, it seemed to help...
  4. K

    at a loss with my girl. please help!!

    tina turner is my 2.5-3 year old leghorn. Last thursday evening when i went to put the girls back in their run I noticed she’d already let herself back in & her tail feathers looked a bit droopy. it’s been VERY hot this week ( heat index of 105°F some days) and all the girls looked hot so i...
  5. S

    Please help, my hen isn't feeling well

    Edit:I've seen her today and she is more active and her comb is more red, bit she still doesn't eat and is a little slow
  6. M

    Lethargic chicken with watery white stool

    I have a 1 year old cream legbar chicken exhibiting concerning symptoms. She is pretty small compared to my other legbars of the same age. Unsure of weight but hasn’t decreased in size since symptoms appeared. She is very lethargic. Walks around a little but mostly just laying down. Isolating...
  7. A

    Olive egger hasn’t laid and Pale comb

    Hey so it’s our first winter with our 3 beautiful ladies.(olive egger,Easter egger, and a cream legbar) The olive egger aka Olivia hasn’t laid this winter, and now that I’m looking at her her comb is pale. She’s been eating and her treats as well, but hasn’t been laying or just been down a bit ...
  8. C

    low tail, pale comb, bloody/poopy vent, and lots of little bugs

    Hi all! I need help. About a week ago I noticed that one of my older hens' comb went went from red to a very light pink. I chalked it up to our cold weather/molting until today when I noticed that she was holding her tailfeathers quite low. My first thought is that she is eggbound and when I...
  9. Chikum Whisperer lvl 3

    Hello and hi new here, with my Orpington girls that are different

    Hello all my names Paul and have been raising my chikums for about 23 weeks, 2 americauna and 3 yellow buff Orpington if memory serves. Question is as follows, 2 buffs laying regular, almost 1 a day each or close it seems the last buff has almost no comb or waddles and has always been pale...
  10. M

    My chicken has been sick for a week and it's pale

    Hi, I have a bantam-breed chicken. He's only 9 months old, and his appearance started to get pale when a typhoon hit our country. My guess is that my chicken is anemic, so I treated it with vitamin + iron capsule, yet days after, it's still pale and starting to lose its appetite. Her poop is...
  11. StefneyRSA

    Skin issue - Please Help! Do we need a vet?

    New and first time chicken momma here. What could be going on with Lulu here? Her skin is crusty and dry, her wattles and comb are pale and very dry (almost looks like craft glue that’s peeling off) and her face is white (like baby powder). She has also not been growing new feathers at all, I...
  12. chickieBok

    Lethargic!! Barnevelder - listless, pale comb, won’t eat!

    Our barnevelder is our first girl to go broody about 2-3 weeks ago. She’s around 18 months old and was growling and taking food from my hand up until a few days ago when I got too sick to climb into the coop for a few days to hand feed her. Last night she was in her nest, seemingly her normal...
  13. chicken mother

    Chickens dying of old age or illness?

    My family member bought like 10 chickens from some guy online. They were delivered to us and they were all low energy, pale a droopy combs. There are four left and this is the condition they’re in right now. The rest of them died. Is this an illness I can treat or did we get old dying hens? The...
  14. Emrosenagel

    Pinkish/pale comb over past couple weeks

    Hello! I have a blue andulusian (11 months) who has been much paler in the past couple weeks. Now, the temperature and humidity here has spiked recently (central Florida) and this hen has always been sensitive to heat, for whatever reason; strange, since the breed is supposedly heat tolerant...
  15. O

    Concerned for our rescued hen.

    Concerned for my rescued hen. Hey y’all, this here is roadrunner our first rescued hen. we’ve had her about a month and 2ish weeks now, my partner and his coworkers ended up spotting her in a very busy part of our town when heading home for the day. we assume she’s a young hen as she’s smaller...
  16. Emrosenagel

    Mother hen spitting up

    Hello! I have a mother hen (Cochin bantam) with three week old chicks. She acts fine, doing her job well, and her poops look perfectly normal, but I noticed today right after she took a drink of water, she spit it all up and sneezed. I only saw her do this once before the day after the chicks...
  17. B

    Pale pink, formerly red, comb

    One of my chickens, not the biggest, but the most precocious, as well as the alpha, has been molting for 4 weeks now, first molt. She is active frisky, and eats well. I am however concerned about her pale, shrunken comb. Should I be?
  18. Chickenpapa77

    Help, Coccidiosis? red gel balls in poop

    My 3.5 yr old Silver Laced Wyandotte is just finishing a molt and has pale comb, decreased energy, and decreased appetite. I thought it was just the molt, but then I found poop with red gel balls in it. I would not characterize it as blood. I found one poop chart saying it was coccidiosis, but...
  19. so_fancy_af

    Single swollen leg (lower shank), head shaking, pale comb

    My speckled Sussex Beebee has been looking worse and worse. Her comb has been pale for a while, but she's been molting. Now, though, one of her legs is swollen and she has that sick, hunched over look. She's starting to shake her head every few seconds when she's standing still, and every now...
  20. L

    Chicken wasting away and falling over

    I noticed about a month ago that one of my chickens’ combs was very pale and shrivelled and that she seemed to have less energy than the others. When I picked her up I also noticed that she is extremely skinny under her feathers, like basically a skeleton. I brought her inside and dewormed her...
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