4m x 3m Omlet pen, cube, new auto door still boxed and coop light

[JM]

I know that young birds have small combs that grow as they mature; combs go redder when the hen is coming into lay, and a poorly bird's comb is a bit flacid...

 

So... how do I read Daphne's comb which has gone a bit like Feather's Magraw (from Wallace and Gromit's "The Wrong Trousers") - it is reddish pink, bouncy and looks OK, but it has started to flop over right at the tips. She is the first of ours to lay, she is bouncing with food searching energy and looks fine. Is it just the way she's maturing?

 

I'm not worried about her as she is definitely OK, but I was wondering how a comb goes when they are off colour?

 

Thanks

 

Jill

[Lewis]

They do grow and flop to the right.

 

I think if they are ill they go a lighter colour, or sometimes bluey/purple, other will agree/disagree.

[cluckbok]

Not experienced a sick hen yet thank goodness but our Matilda's comb is floppy and red and it leans to one side. She's perfectly happy, healthy.

[Karen Pimlott]

dont worry is she a hybrid? white star or similar? then she has leghorn in her & it is characteristic of the leghorn breed, nothing to worry about.

[JM]

Thanks! Karen - she's my Miss Pepperpot from Omlet.

[Karen & co.]

I have 2 leghorns and one has a huge comb that flops to the right and the other is slightly smaller and flops to the left

 

Karen x