Droopy Comb and introducing baby chicks

[chickenfarmerj]

Hello,
Hope you can answer our questions.

Our one Cornish Rooster has a droopy comb

and wondered why?
The only thing we could find on that it's maybe worms and gave him Cayenne pepper mixed in his food as a natural remedy, but it is still drooped over to one side.

Also you could you please tell us when we can begin to incorporate our 2 month old hens and roosters with our 4 month old hens and roosters?

Thank you

 

[faykokoWV]

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I don't know about the droopy comb, but I think you can go ahead and put your 2 mo olds in with the 4 mo olds. (provided none of them have been with you less than 30 days, if less than 30 days with you, continue seperation for quarrantine purposes)

I'd do it on a day when you can keep on eye on how they interact. some people recommend putting them in at night so they all wake up together, but I'm never sure when they will get up and I like to be there for the first meeting.

are the in an area where they can see each other now?
how many of each age do you have?

 

[chickenfarmerj]

Thank you for your reply! We did plan on making sure that we have the time first to be right there and watch them for quite awhile, I don't want any of them to get hurt. We wasn't sure since some of our 4 month chickens and roosters are like 50% bigger then the 2 month old chicks that are still separated. They do see each other through the chicken wire that separates them. A month ago they were like dancing at each other through the fence, but not anymore.

I am hoping someone has an answer for the droopy comb, we are concerned of what it could be.
Thanks again

 

[patandchickens]

Cornish (the breed) have a very small pea comb, I'm not envisioning how it could be droopy?

Is it perhaps a CornishX ("Cornish cross" or any other name for the great big white meat-birds bred for the broiler industry), which does have a large (if they get old enough) single comb?

Some individual chickens may just *have* combs inclined to lop to one side a bit, but often it is a sign of poor health, so I guess the question would be, how does the chicken seem otherwise? How is the color of his comb, how is his poo, have you checked *thoroughly and rapidly* for mites, etc? Another CornishX-specific thing would be the beginning of heart failure (they are really not meant to live more than a couple few months; some people keep 'em for a year or two, as pets, but only on a very restricted diet and with cosiderable finger-crossing).

Good luck,

Pat

 

[spikemedic]

it is a sign of poor health of the chicken, so how is the color of his comb??



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[chickenfarmerj]

That is what we was concerned about is if it is poor health, but appetite is fine, poo is normal. How do you look for mites? We looked through the feathers and didn't see anything. Once when we went in the coup the comb area was bloody, so we rushed to exam, saw nothing, we washed the all the area clean and saw what might be a very small tear at the end of the comb, we put on antibiotic ointment, don't understand how that happened these two are separated from everyone else.
We don't know if they are Cornish X, we wondered. We had called the store we bought them from because they were sold just has Cornish Rock, I got the name of the Company that they get the birds from and called them. They too acted very strange when asked if the Cornish Rocks they supply the Store with are X's, she said well they are broilers and so forth.
They both weigh around 19lbs and are big. We love them very much, one cock a doodles the other one does not, but we can't tell if they are both Roosters are not, they look alike. We began restricting their diet about a month ago just in case they are the X's.