NY chicken lover!!!!

[Chicken girl 15]

Can i do anything for a rooster's comb that looks bad, besides heating the coop?? Isn't the vaseling thing just for waddles? those look fine..

ventilation. It's not the cold that is the problem. It's the moisture in the air.

 

[Gramma Chick]

Quote: Aggreed ....Ventilation ...is important ..I closed them up JUST one frigid night ....
I learned my Lesson ...Cold doesnt huet them humidity does ..
Repeat this to yourself " Chickens are livestock " " They will be fine "
You could put Vaseline on the comb ...it doesnt look like it is too bad .
When my roos comb got frostbite it turned black and he lost his points
Before
During




AFTER

 

[Pyxis]

Well my Chickenguard door opener is deader than a door nail. The motor is totally shot. The door I used it on did not exceed its maximum weight limit and it was on the decline before the real cold snap we had for a few days there so that wasn't it. The display and everything works just fine but it can't lift the door. Darn thing is only six months old. It SHOULD have a three year warranty on it but the trouble is I bought it from a reseller here in the States before I knew I could directly order them from the company in the UK that makes them so I'm not sure who to go to on this. We'll see how it plays out.

 

[salsss]

Quote: So very sorry for that...especially as our weather is just turning bitter. I was told right away to get an auto door and it's the one thing I'm most thankful for. Good luck....hopefully you can make it work manually and tomorrow may be a later day anyhow with the negative zero weather!

 

[Beer can]

Can i do anything for a rooster's comb that looks bad, besides heating the coop?? Isn't the vaseling thing just for waddles? those look fine..

Looks kinda white, cold, the black doesn't look too bad or deep, hopefully it doesn't get worse. The black is bad like gramma's pic. My giant's, sussex and welsummer have got black just on the tips and come spring healed up like nothing happened. Have saw like gramma when I was a kid one of my dad's RIR's get the frostbit dubbed combs. I believe IMHO it's the humidity. Even if you have a well ventilated coop there is natural outside humidity. I discussed this with someone in a much colder area than us, the outside can't control it humidity and they said they actually have extra doors they open up when humidity is high. I've got three coops, big one and small one have been proven. I'm experimenting with a just to see how they do (where's that emoji?) a sorta hoop coop with a completely open side dog kennel with naked necks and giant pullets. The naked neck cockerel in that coop looks just as good as the white naked neck in the small coop and the giant rooster in the big coop. I do not shut my pop doors, more airflow. Might not be a good idea for coops prone to predators. I haven't had a problem with predators, they're there, have them on my trail cam but they steer clear. Whether they have just had plenty to eat without bothering us or they don't like our dogs, whatever it is they have been through just have never messed with a coop. The Vaseline, for combs and wattles both they say helps. I've never used it, sounds wet and cold to me.

 

[Gramma Chick]

Well my Chickenguard door opener is deader than a door nail. The motor is totally shot. The door I used it on did not exceed its maximum weight limit and it was on the decline before the real cold snap we had for a few days there so that wasn't it. The display and everything works just fine but it can't lift the door. Darn thing is only six months old. It SHOULD have a three year warranty on it but the trouble is I bought it from a reseller here in the States before I knew I could directly order them from the company in the UK that makes them so I'm not sure who to go to on this. We'll see how it plays out.

Contact the Reseller ..see if they have a warranty...or can give you some money back ..

 

[Gramma Chick]

Anyone Else have Roosters that crow at night when they hear you speak ?
Cowboy just Crowed when I open the outside door and talked to the cat ..LOL

 

[Metella]

ha ha I have a hen that HAS to be his exact sister with white around the neck and the nice feet feathers - I am VERY glad she doesn't crow at all hours of the night !

Mine crow at 4 very briefly every night and then are quiet until dawn. Weird.

 

[Aria]

Your Silkie Chicks are adorable. We had a Flock of Silkies and new to
chickens. We LOST most of our flock. Trying to rebuild. Where did you
get your eggs? Good Luck. I read you can count on `1/2 successful
hatch. Regards, Aria

 

[AmyLynn2374]

Your Silkie Chicks are adorable.  We had a Flock of Silkies and new to
chickens.  We LOST most of our flock.  Trying to rebuild.  Where did you
get your eggs?  Good Luck.  I read you can count on `1/2 successful
hatch.  Regards, Aria

If you are interested in paint silkies, I HIGHLY recommend Rubynala97 for eggs. She's downstate but she is an awesome seller and her packaging is superb. I got eggs from her last year, before she went to concentrating on just the paints and she ended up sending 18 eggs. Not a single detached air cell, I had 3 or 4 wobbly ones that I left upright and didn't turn for the first 2 days of incubation and they firmed right up and I was able to lay them down for the incubation. Out of 18, 17 showed development but 3 of those were early quitters. 14 went into lockdown and 12 hatched happy and healthy. 8 girls and 4 boys. And her birds are beautiful.