Bluish comb

[Zwillingsmama]

I have one 3.5y old OE where I noticed last week that her comb color is turning bluish. Otherwise she acts and eats normal - she has always been on the bottom of the pecking order. She has not started laying this year when all but one other are laying for a while now. Of my 7 girls she is the only one with this comb color. First picture is of my OE with the bluish comb, the other is the same age BR with normal comb color. Do I need to be concerned?

 

[azygous]

No need for concern. The tips of large single combs will often change color according to environmental conditions and even the current mood of the chicken under the comb. When the entire comb goes a blue-grey color, that's when to worry.

The single most important gauge of a chicken's health and well being is their behavior. As long as a chicken is behaving normally, alert, active, good appetite, vocal, normal poop, that chicken is feeling well.

A sick chicken won't be bright-eyed, won't be active, will be hunched and fluffed up, no appetite, no vocalizing, and poop may be watery, green, or watery and very brown and smelly.

Don't be alarmed if you see a chicken motionless. They may be just, well, motionless. One tiny little thing I've noticed that is present with a chicken that is motionless yet well is the normal chicken head twitch. A sick motionless chicken will not have that normal chicken head twitch. Sick chickens are very, very still.