First time chicken mom, I got my first flock the last week of February, putting everyone right at 5 months and 1-2 weeks old.
A few days ago, I noticed my rooster Lemon developing some white and black spots and what looks like a small circular wart? on his comb. The edges of his comb also look to be darkening. It has spread to his waddles a little as well now. I wrote it off as dirt/a little bit of blood since we just expanded their run and they are doing some intense exploring the past few days.
He is happy, energetic, greedily taking all the treats (he jumps and sits on my arm and eats them from the cup before I can throw them down), running around like normal, making his normal 2-toned happy buck buck noises, making his normal proud cockadoodle to wake me up at 5:45, etc. He is still dancing and getting it on with the girls. He is still letting me pick him up and carry him around and wash his feet so I can bring him in the house. His feet are perfect, no evidence of what's on his head on any other part of his body.
Details about his housing:
Tallahassee, FL - the weather has been in the 80s/90s, stormy lately with a tropical storm approaching (should just give us plenty of rain) - so not frostbite
We have him with 5 hens (plus 4 juvie hens that will go out in ~a month) and 1 bantam rooster, but the bantam is his little second in command buddy and they team up on the dogs together and are general butthead buddies. None of the other chickens have it at all on their combs or waddles, and are all happy too.
They have a 4 ft by 4 ft nesting box with pine shaving litter, using the deep litter method, that is turned every other day by me and I throw seeds in it almost daily and the hens kick it all up searching too.
Their coop is 8 ft by 4 ft, and we just added a run outside of it that adds an additional 8 ft x 6 ft (it's going to get expanded again tho, TS ran out of posts, hoping for 8 ft x 10 ft total, will be expanded again for next spring tho).
The second I showed my boyfriend this morning, he said it's a disease or infection called "Black Crown" and it will kill him. I can't find anything about it on Google, and I'm so scared that my ignorance is going to hurt my boy. Do you have any idea what this could be and how it could be treated if necessary?
A few days ago, I noticed my rooster Lemon developing some white and black spots and what looks like a small circular wart? on his comb. The edges of his comb also look to be darkening. It has spread to his waddles a little as well now. I wrote it off as dirt/a little bit of blood since we just expanded their run and they are doing some intense exploring the past few days.
He is happy, energetic, greedily taking all the treats (he jumps and sits on my arm and eats them from the cup before I can throw them down), running around like normal, making his normal 2-toned happy buck buck noises, making his normal proud cockadoodle to wake me up at 5:45, etc. He is still dancing and getting it on with the girls. He is still letting me pick him up and carry him around and wash his feet so I can bring him in the house. His feet are perfect, no evidence of what's on his head on any other part of his body.
Details about his housing:
Tallahassee, FL - the weather has been in the 80s/90s, stormy lately with a tropical storm approaching (should just give us plenty of rain) - so not frostbite
We have him with 5 hens (plus 4 juvie hens that will go out in ~a month) and 1 bantam rooster, but the bantam is his little second in command buddy and they team up on the dogs together and are general butthead buddies. None of the other chickens have it at all on their combs or waddles, and are all happy too.
They have a 4 ft by 4 ft nesting box with pine shaving litter, using the deep litter method, that is turned every other day by me and I throw seeds in it almost daily and the hens kick it all up searching too.
Their coop is 8 ft by 4 ft, and we just added a run outside of it that adds an additional 8 ft x 6 ft (it's going to get expanded again tho, TS ran out of posts, hoping for 8 ft x 10 ft total, will be expanded again for next spring tho).
The second I showed my boyfriend this morning, he said it's a disease or infection called "Black Crown" and it will kill him. I can't find anything about it on Google, and I'm so scared that my ignorance is going to hurt my boy. Do you have any idea what this could be and how it could be treated if necessary?
