Preventative Maintenance - Combs and Wattles

[Folly's place]

Greasing my hands, or rooster combs, would have very marginal effects on the occurance of frostbite.
Mary

 

[Ted Brown]

...I'm happy to avoid roosters with large single combs and big wattles, the best plan for those of us having cold frozen winters.
Chanteclers! Love them!
(Not sorry for the brief commercial plug).
Mary

Mary,

I have seven 28 week old ISA Brown Hybrids, eight 8 week old mixed from (we think) an Australorp roo and Silkie, [others tbd]; five pullets and three cockerels?. I will add White Chanteclers by ordering a dozen fertilized eggs to start April 2020; early on in my BYC reading I came across the Chantelcer's Quebec origin and decided I would have some. I have a dozen layers plus one as a flock size "goal" realizing I will fluctuate around that number.

This is Diana Berry an eight week old Australorp/Silkie mix, faintly witch like I think.

Ted