Chicken bald back

[auntielizzie]

Really sorry the pictures are so big, but I'm having to borrow someone else's computer to do this as mine has gone caput and my brain has turned to mush where computers are concerned!

 

Hopefully you will be able to see the photos of the strange goings-on with my girl's comb. Has anyone else ever seen this before. I even wondered if she had frostbite!? as that's the only thing I could find on the internet! but it hasn't been cold enough surely?

 

[mimi5]

Ooooo errrrr! Sorry no ideas. Did she arrive like that? Does it bother her??

 

Hopefully somebody else will be along to help. There's always the vet, mine are very good with chickens.

 

Best wishes for your hen

[auntielizzie]

She is one of my ex bats I got on 8 March. She didn't have these when she arrived im pretty sure; I just noticed them the other day. It doesn't look like pox, which was the other thing I found on the web, but looks very strange! As far as I can tell, it doesn't bother her although I will take her to the vets if it starts to change.

[Daphne]

How peculiar Not frostbite, the tips of the comb go purplish with that, rather than seeming to grow a new bit! I'll be interested if anybody else has any ideas, its a new one on me

[sjp]

could be damage from pecking that's resulted in the tips dying

[auntielizzie]

Ah yes sjp, that might explain it. Although all the girls get along just fine. I haven't seen any pecking apart from when we first got the ex bats and one of them was a bit pecky to the others. However, that all stopped when they went in with the big girls after a couple of day, but it sounds more plausible than frostbite!.

[sjp]

one or two of mine get their combs pecked from time to time normally when their on the nest and one of the other decides that they want the nest to themselves. it's quite often their best friend that they peck

[gavclojak]

Oh my gosh it looks like she is turning in to Beelzebub!!!

[PixieDust]

Winnie had 2 like that and one day they were gone. Hopefully your girl's ones will do the same.

[The Dogmother]

could be damage from pecking that's resulted in the tips dying

 

That's what I thought - either she's been pecked, or she has caught it.

[auntielizzie]

The thing is, I have never noticed any bleeding. I'm just going to have to keep a close eye on it for now

[sjp]

The thing is, I have never noticed any bleeding. I'm just going to have to keep a close eye on it for now

you don't always see any sign until the scab turns black or there's a few red or brown marks on the coop walls. unless the others keep pecking at the blood combs stop bleeding quite quickly

it's one of the things that's normal with chickens as they peck the comb as a way of moving the 'victim' from the nest box feeder or the part of the perch that isn't theirs,most times they don't draw blood basically they 'drop the nut' on the one that's in the wrong place

[The Dogmother]

True. One of my pekins is sporting a purple comb after she got the Glasgow Kiss for butting in where she wasn't wanted.

[Beantree]

It does look remarkably like frostbite, where the tip has blackened and died off and is now about to drop off. Takes several months to get to that stage from the initial exposure to cold.

 

However we have similar looking combs on two chickens here. One is a cock who, in his rush to get out of the coop and doodle in the morning, has caught his comb points on the pop-hole door. The other is a Marans who always seems to be in the wrong place at the wrong time and her comb has been pecked on the tips and they have died off like that.

[Chickabee]

True. One of my pekins is sporting a purple comb after she got the Glasgow Kiss for butting in where she wasn't wanted.

 

that is soo funny

[Charlottechicken]

I'd have said pecking too. My two bantams are second and third in command and often sport tiny scabs like that on their combs. I often think of the Two Ronnies class sketch when watching them all

[sjp]

True. One of my pekins is sporting a purple comb after she got the Glasgow Kiss for butting in where she wasn't wanted.

 

that is soo funny

watch them a breakfast time someone will get the 'kiss' for daring to eat before it's her turn if you don't see it happen you'll hear the recipient squeal