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[ChxLadyCass]

Kay in better light

 

[ChxLadyCass]

Betty, back and Kay, front

 

[casportpony]

That pic is pretty dark, need one taken in bright light..or maybe it's just my screen.

I popped it into a photo program and lightened it....doesn't look purple to me, just looks a bit pale.....like a bird out of lay.

I agree, it doesn't look purple to me either.

 

[aart]

Like with poops, there are many 'normals' to comb appearance.
I've had hens with plump luscious combs that are not laying, and hens with rather pale dry looking combs that lay like gangbusters.
After awhile you'll get used to the changes and differences and observation of all variables will teach you when action is needed and when to leave things alone.
It can be hard at first not to overreact and micromanage.

 

[ChxLadyCass]

Like with poops, there are many 'normals' to comb appearance.
I've had hens with plump luscious combs that are not laying, and hens with rather pale dry looking combs that lay like gangbusters.
After awhile you'll get used to the changes and differences and observation of all variables will teach you when action is needed and when to leave things alone.
It can be hard at first not to overreact and micromanage.

I'm a helicopter parent!! The longer I look the more I notice and feel like I discover! I am grateful for BYC and the ability to check in with you all!
In other news, I bathed Betty today. Just in warm water as her feathers looked awful in back from the accumulation of poo on her feathers. Poor thing has really red skin and after 25 minutes all the poo still wouldn't come off. And while drying her off I think I found a case of bumble foot. I read a thread that basically said not to mess with it unless it looks like it's bothering her. She didn't hate the bath though!!

 

[ChxLadyCass]

I promise I didn't agitate the soiled feathers at all! Just poured warm water over them.

 

[ChxLadyCass]

Betty's foot

 

[aart]

Quote: Copious observation is not a bad thing IMO...it's what you do with and about your observations that counts.
I watch closely but usually do go for the 'wait and see' instead of jumping in with all kinds of speculative 'treatments'.

Agrees with not messing with the bumble foot, just keep an eye on it.
Have had several bumblers, some even limping for weeks, as long as they could eat drink roost scratch I left them be and all healed up on their own.

 

[ChxLadyCass]

Copious observation is not a bad thing IMO...it's what you do with and about your observations that counts.
I watch closely but usually do go for the 'wait and see' instead of jumping in with all kinds of speculative 'treatments'.

Agrees with not messing with the bumble foot, just keep an eye on it.
Have had several bumblers, some even limping for weeks, as long as they could eat drink roost scratch I left them be and all healed up on their own.

Thank you always for the reassurance aart! I am not yet a parent, but this gives me GREAT experience for that day haha! I love learning about all the ways I can help my girls, but I also try to remember they have had very LITTLE care before I came along and were doing just fine. It is a balance and I feel like I'm starting to get the hang of things. Couldn't do with you all! I think she got bumble foot from jumping off her roost, so I am going to lower it and the nesting boxes asap.

 

[aart]

Quote: Bumblefoot is caused by an infected cut, usually staph infection.
Tho jumping off the roost may aggravate it, it doesn't cause it......
.....unless they jumped onto something sharp enough to cut the foot.

Experience keeping animals might kinda maybe help prepare you for raising children.....but not really.