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GRAPHIC! Chicken missing toes

i think it could have been frostbite, and he took the natural path and let the dead tissuse fall off. i think you should take him into the bathroom after you take a shower when its warm and humid, and let him warm up, and put some hydrogen peroxide on it to kill the germs.
good luck!! you can do it, ok?

The damage is older. He has been inside for quite some time already. ;)
The wounds are healing well.
 
It takes a month or two for frostbitten toes to fall off. I agree the case of frostbite is old, probably happened just before you brought him inside 2 months ago. It happens when they step into a little water and it freezes. I have to be careful on these freezing days when refilling water bowls, and if they step into them it happens. He should be okay since he has the remaining part of the toes left.
 
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Hes normally inside a 3 ft metal tub, similar to what tractor supply house their chicks in, the lid is a metal mesh lid similar to chicken wire but thicker and tinier holes. The bedding is mainly pine bedding but I have pine pellets at the bottom and its around 1 ft deep. It was freezing at the end of December so I think youre right, he most likely got it before i brought him in , it dropped down to 12 °f on christmas morning. And sorry, I noticed the tips were gone and then soaked because I read online i needed to keep it clean. the feet werent super soiled, but there was some muck on the ends where the skin is gone. His sisters feets were complete clean and fine. He also had a bad habit the first few weeks of tipping his waterer over.I will try and take some more pics of him soon.
That would do it.
 

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