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For what it's worth, just so you know, white earlobes can look aqua blue when bruised (happened to a Cream Legbar hen of mine who scratched her earlobe). Chicken bruises can be alarmingly bright blue, compared to what you might expect from human bruises.
You guys might (or might not) find this interesting. When I blot fountain pen ink on a wet paper towel (e.g. to wipe off a pen), over time the different components of that particular ink will spread in the paper towel at different rates and separate (like you may have done in chromatography in chemistry class).
Well, I used paper towels to help tend to Goodwin's tail picking injury and when I had to pull out the blood feathers, and was so flustered about the whole thing that I didn't discard the bloody paper towels once done. I came back a day later to tidy up and found this:
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Thanks, I have heard of the ear bruising before. His ears are indeed this color though, they have been since a couple days after he hatched. Very neat picture of the blue color!
The eggs should be here today......![]()
Ohhhh, what breed???