Black spot on comb

B BACKYARD

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Aug 14, 2015
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Hi, I have white chickens that have small black spots on their comb. Their combs also fall over they don't look like the Rhode Island Reds I have. I have RR and dominiques and their combs don't have small black spots. What are those spots?
 
Welcome to BYC. Dark spots on the comb can be peck marks that have drawn blood and turn black, or fowl pox which may be tan to dark brown from a virus spread by mosquitoes. Pictures always help, but you may need to have a few more posts to add pictures to your posts. You can see thee differnece in the marks belwo, but in some cases it can be hard to distinguish.


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peck marks

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fowl pox
 
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