Rooster with damaged comb and waddles

[Eggcessive]

Just looking back at his picture, did he have an odd shaped pupil (the black round part of the eye?). It looks alittle distorted in the picture, but may be just reflection. Mareks disease can cause irregular pupils and other eye symptoms.

 

[rlephoto]

He was a Welsummer rooster. A year old and only once did he think about attacking me, never did it again. We have 6 hens: 2 Welsummer, 2 Easter Eggers, an Barred rock mix and a Cinnamon Queen. Going to get more chicks in a few weeks, maybe more Cinnamon Queens. The CQ we have is one egg laying girl, nearly an egg a day!

 

[rlephoto]

Checked the photo of the rooster and one of the hens next to him, the eyes looks ok, not Marek's disease. Thanks for pointing that out!

 

[chickengeorgeto]

Please don't keep straight combed rooster if you feed them in a commercial poultry style metal feeder. That comb and those waddles are not frostbite it looks like damage you poor rooster inflicted upon himself by trying to eat from a metal chicken feeder with an anti roost guard. The blood in the photo that has ran down onto your roosters bill and on the feed settles the matter, because frost bit flesh is very unlikely to ever bleed. Besides, most of the damage to his comb and head is just above his beak. My opinion is that he starved. In fact the medical definition of frostbite means that the blood flow was interrupted long enough that the frozen flesh died and is falling off, something that your bird did not demonstrate.

After studying your avatar it appears that roo also has a small injury to his comb in the same place your rooster did. Not saying that the roo in your avatar is even yours but their profile is identical.

 

[rlephoto]

Well we use a Hanging Poultry Feeder 12 lb and the chickens were burying straw into it by kicking the straw all around the coop and blocking up the feeder. This could be what happened to him. I usually toss out a qt of feed on the ground for them every few days. Betting the feeder was blocked with straw and he injured himself. I now have the feeder hanging on a gutter nail 3 inch above the straw that seems to keep it clear of straw.

 

[Alaskan]

Please don't keep straight combed rooster if you feed them in a commercial poultry style metal feeder.  That comb and those waddles are not frostbite it looks like damage you poor rooster inflicted upon himself by trying to eat from a metal chicken feeder with an anti roost guard.  The blood in the photo that has ran down onto your roosters bill and on the feed settles the matter, because frost bit flesh is very unlikely to ever bleed.  Besides, most of the damage to his comb and head is just above his beak.  My opinion is that he starved.  In fact the medical definition of frostbite means that the blood flow was interrupted long enough that the frozen flesh died and is falling off, something that your bird did not demonstrate.

After studying your avatar it appears that roo also has a small injury to his comb in the same place your rooster did.  Not saying that the roo in your avatar is even yours but their profile is identical.

I agree with what you said.... Except that frostbite does tend to bleed a bit, when the dead parts fall away from the good parts. It then bleeds just a little, scabs, then the scab falls off and everything looks perfectly healthy.

 

[chickengeorgeto]

I agree with what you said.... Except that frostbite does tend to bleed a bit, when the dead parts fall away from the good parts. It then bleeds just a little, scabs, then the scab falls off and everything looks perfectly healthy.

You are 100% correct. However frost bite begins on the part of the comb that is furthest from the heart, and then as the blood freezes progresses downward towards the body core. None of this is evident in the proto.

 

[Alaskan]

I agree with what you said.... Except that frostbite does tend to bleed a bit, when the dead parts fall away from the good parts. It then bleeds just a little, scabs, then the scab falls off and everything looks perfectly healthy.

You are 100% correct.  However frost bite begins on the part of the comb that is furthest from the heart, and then as the blood freezes progresses downward towards the body core.  None of this is evident in the proto.

Agreed