Not sure on the comb....your pullets are a mite ahead of my Invasion. Chia I expect to lay any day (may 29 hatch day), although the cold and snow will likely delay that (good for her growth and development). Yours are quite the eye candy (beautiful).
Two out of four started laying, and they were the one Gaston has begun mating with about two weeks ago.
We still have very warm and beautiful weather ; last year the pullets were hatched three weeks later and Piou-piou was the first to lay on the 10 of November.
Based on comb development only, I would have thought Laure was ready to lay two weeks ago- but nothing yet ! So I guess it's not a 100% indicator (just like early popping wattles when they were two weeks old chicks didn't make them all boys thankfully!)
I don’t see anything unusual with it, maybe I don’t see the area you are asking about. At any rate he is gorgeous.
I don’t know much about combs but I don’t see a split. It flops a little one way and then flops a little the other. It looks entirely intact and he’s beautiful and fashionable. It has a little cushion in the front at the base, and goes nicely all the way back. He’s got a bump or scar on the back end there but I don’t see any split. Where are you looking?
I don't see a split either ! It's someone from our village who said that. And I have had two or three people comments on BYC about his comb. I certainly hope it's natural because I would feel bad if we had missed a wound serious enough to reshape completely his comb. Yes, he got pecked several times, and he lost a tiny bit of wattle, but it always seem to make a clean scab and heal quickly.
I like it's shape too, I think it looks like he is wearing a jester hat.
Everyone has been taking the chilly temperatures in stride. I have several who are moulting, but they are doing okay. It was only -12C/10F today which is not actually considered to be cold here at this time of year.
The bad news is that Cesario is limping. My husband has been away looking after a friend's dog sled team, but is coming back tomorrow so we can get a good look at it.
I would say exactly what we told
@knoturavggrl , if he is still limping tomorrow , begin by crating him for 12 hours and assess.
If you pick him off the roost once he is asleep, you can maybe just feel if the leg and foot is swollen / hot to the touch ?
This reminds me that I haven't shared here
@RoyalChick's brilliant idea for bumblefoot, which has changed my life. Well, maybe not, but really made it easier. Once the chicken is over the worse of the infection but the foot is still swollen and/or has a scab, and especially in the case when it's taking time to heal and you have many chickens to deal with, instead of the usual 20 mn soaking with Epsom salts using a corn dressing and vet wrap, we switched to a cuttable to size colloidal dressing, which keeps the wound humid. This means you don't have to soak the foot for long since the dressing will do the job of keeping it moist to draw out the yucky stuff, just wash it, apply betadine (or you can pour it in the bath which is what we did) , towel dry and put the colloidal dressing and a bit of vet wrap just to be sure it doesn't fall off. Way quicker to do, the colloidal dressing can be left on up to three days and the part covered will stay clean, and just as efficient, BUT you need to be sure that you are not dealing with staph infection anymore. I can assure you that when you have four chickens and six feet to tend it's a revolution
. Thanks again RC
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Picture for a long post. My partner calls Merle petit diable, little devil, and she does look pretty demoniac today.
Poor Sylvie!
6 of those 4 +2 about 1.5 weeks apart. 
