EDUCATIONAL INCUBATION & HATCHING CHAT THREAD, w/ Sally Sunshine Shipped Eggs

[Akrnaf2]

View attachment 1592762 View attachment 1592763 View attachment 1592765 View attachment 1592767 I know this in an incubation thread but you guys help with chickens problems, so hoping you can help as I did not get many answers when I posted this on the illnesses section.

I just moved house and it came with an old (6-8) year old hen. I said I would look after her till she died. She has a problem with her comb/ head. As she is semi ferral I can't get hold of her to look better. Any ideas greatly appreciated.
Thanks!

It seems to me like a combination of a frost bite/ necrosis of the comb, and some kind of tumor. (That gray -brown thing over her right side eye.)

 

[SeaDragon]

Thanks for your help thoughts.
We don't get frost here at all. I am wondering if the gray mass is not actually comb but hard puss-like exudate or a tumor as Akrnaf2 suggested.

 

[kwhites634]

Was trying to think of who to tag to see if they knew. CC maybe?

@aart maybe? @sourland ?, @casportpony ? If pony don't know, I bet she knows who does.
I'm putting my money on some internal malady.

 

[aart]

@aart maybe? @sourland ?, @casportpony ? If pony don't know, I bet she knows who does.
I'm putting my money on some internal malady.

Are we asking about this bird?
https://www.backyardchickens.com/th...ooks-and-more.1137467/page-9248#post-20661560

I doubt it's frostbite...looks like some kind of tumor.

 

[LittleLakePhil]

Thanks for your help thoughts.
We don't get frost here at all. I am wondering if the gray mass is not actually comb but hard puss-like exudate or a tumor as Akrnaf2 suggested.

It has to be pretty cold to get frost bite....I regularly hit 25 below here and I've only had a little bit of minor frost bite on my roosters comb... none of my hens combs have ever gotten it.
Heck we are only 3 Above this morning and I'm not worried about them

 

[Pensmaster]

@SeaDragon
You mention she’s 6 years old. Did former owner mention the spot or has it developed after you moved in? Maybe they know some history of the hen.

 

[Pensmaster]

It has to be pretty cold to get frost bite....I regularly hit 25 below here and I've only had a little bit of minor frost bite on my roosters comb... none of my hens combs have ever gotten it.
Heck we are only 3 Above this morning and I'm not worried about them

Ice fishing start up soon?

 

[BantyChooks]

Are we asking about this bird?
https://www.backyardchickens.com/th...ooks-and-more.1137467/page-9248#post-20661560
I doubt it's frostbite...looks like some kind of tumor.

x2. Nothing about that would suggest frostbite to me even if the owner lived in a cold climate. Honestly, I've never seen anything like that before.

 

[aart]

x2. Nothing about that would suggest frostbite to me even if the owner lived in a cold climate. Honestly, I've never seen anything like that before.

Should have it's own thread.

 

[SeaDragon]

Should have it's own thread.

It has but got no responses so I posted it here. Thanks for all the helpful responses.