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I just discovered 1 of my young pullets has frostbite on both feet all the way to her ankles. I seem to remember someone with a young roo that this happened to last winter. Can't remember who it was though. Anyone have any suggestions besides culling her? Do I need to amputate her feet or what? I've dealt with a predator inflicted wing amputation but not sure how to treat this.
 
SilkieSensation said:
I just discovered 1 of my young pullets has frostbite on both feet all the way to her ankles. I seem to remember someone with a young roo that this happened to last winter. Can't remember who it was though. Anyone have any suggestions besides culling her? Do I need to amputate her feet or what? I've dealt with a predator inflicted wing amputation but not sure how to treat this.
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http://www.the-chicken-chick.com/2013/12/frostbit-in-backyard-chickens-causes.html?m=1

Can you keep her inside? Try that for a little while.
 
SilkieSensation said:
I just discovered 1 of my young pullets has frostbite on both feet all the way to her ankles. I seem to remember someone with a young roo that this happened to last winter. Can't remember who it was though. Anyone have any suggestions besides culling her? Do I need to amputate her feet or what? I've dealt with a predator inflicted wing amputation but not sure how to treat this.
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chad ended up loosing him when they fell off :(
 
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She's back to pigging out in her box. Gave her water with vitamins, electrolytes & brown sugar. Will add duramycin-10 as soon as I locate it in all these boxes.
 
stake said:
Fisher:

No pearls of wisdom here....but, I think there's a couple of considerations before using food coloring:

a) do you really want to chase down your birds and color their butts with Q-tips??? if so, please make a video!!!
b) after painting their butts, you will have to look at it for a long time...and think of the emotional damage when the girl reaches around to preen herself and finds her tucas green and none of the roosters want to have anything to do with her???
c) lastly, assuming you proceed, you will have to explain to all your friends and neighbors that you painted you chooks butts...and no explanation will suffice.... they will not understand....lol
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a) We should have made the video tonight when we had to check all of the brown egg layers' butts to make sure no damage done from the super egg... needless to say they didn't appreciate it!

b) The girls may be offended that we messed up their pretty feathers, but trust me, this group of roos wouldn't give a dang! They don't care what color it is as long as it stands still long enough for them to do their thing!
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c) We may have to be eating a lot of scrambled eggs for a while to hide the evidence!
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dheltzel said:
Ahh, but there is a good explanation. Blame it on the neighbor kids! Say something about how you used to "tip cows", but now "painting chicken butts" is all the rag!

I bet 9 out of 10 people will buy that story, and the other one will at least appreciate your creativity.
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SilkieSensation said:
There was someone who had 1 survive losing both feet. They eere posting about building him & his hen a special pen so he could get around easier.
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Sorry to hear about your pullet, hopefully she is able to recover....
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Edit to correct spell check screw up.... hate having to double proof read everything!
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