New Member:Problems With Frostbite

[Poultrylover000000]

Hi everyonenewbie here. This is my first time owning chickens I have two female Barred rocks (the others sadly lost to cannibalism from those two) They are pretty friendly and will let you hold them for a while. Their names are Peck y and Becky(I just chose random names) One day I noticed that part of Peckys comb had turned black the next day the black part of it fell off I soon found out that it was frostbite. Does anyone know if a chickens comb will grow back? and how to prevent and treat frostbite??

 

[Kiki]

Welcome to BYC.
Here is a good place to start reading:
Frostbite in Poultry

 

[Poultrylover000000]

thanks

 

[Plip]

Welcome to BYC! Great to have you here!

And sorry to hear about Pecky's comb!

 

[007Sean]

Howdy Happy to have you join the family. Enjoy your time here at BYC

 

[pennyJo1960]

Hi everyonenewbie here. This is my first time owning chickens I have two female Barred rocks (the others sadly lost to cannibalism from those two) They are pretty friendly and will let you hold them for a while. Their names are Peck y and Becky(I just chose random names) One day I noticed that part of Peckys comb had turned black the next day the black part of it fell off I soon found out that it was frostbite. Does anyone know if a chickens comb will grow back? and how to prevent and treat frostbite??

Welcome to backyard Chickens sadly it will not grow back but she will have a life even so you can put vaseline on what is left and find why it happened is there enough ventilation in the coop

 

[N F C]

Sorry about Pecky's comb.

 

[Joeschooks]

Sorry that she has lost part of her comb. It won’t grow back unfortunately

 

[lazy gardener]

Sorry you're starting out with issues. Sounds like you have a space issue, and a ventilation issue in your coop. Chickens should have at least 4 s.f. per bird in the coop and 10 s.f. per bird in the run. If you have a small flock, you need even more room than that. Ventilation should be a minimum of 1 s.f./bird in the coop. If the coop lacks ventilation, moisture will build up and the birds will get frost bite. In a large coop with adequate ventilation and increased cu. ft. (increased height) chickens can tolerate sub zero temps w/o frost bite issues. To answer your question, No. the dead tissue will not grow back.

 

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