Pro - Does anyone else's nest boxes get soaked in rain?

[clucker1]

My favourite chicken, Matilda (my posh girl as I call her as she is my most expensive chicken) and prettiest being a 3.5 year old skyline and lays the best tasting yolky eggs ever, has lost half her comb, the back floppy part. She has had her worst moult this Autumn including the part where her comb was and I think this must be the cause but I'm not sure. Does anyone else have experience of this. Should I be concerned? Other than that she looks like a chicken having a moult. Needless to say I haven't found the half comb anywhere, but the chickens do have lots of bushes etc that they free range in. I did wonder if she'd got it caught but there is lots of new feather growth round where the comb used to be.

[mullethunter]

Was it bleeding?

[clucker1]

No I don't think so. I have to admit I didn't notice her loss of comb, my husband did today. About a week ago she started looking bedraggled in her moult but tbh not sure when the comb came off. She was busy eating still and enjoyed pecking her way through greens and left over fish finger this afternoon.

[mullethunter]

That's really odd. Sorry if this is a stupid question but are you sure it hasn't just shrunk during her moult?

[clucker1]

Thanks for replying so quickly, much appreciated and definitely not a stupid question. Will have a look tomorrow, wish me luck.....she's the hardest one to catch!

[clucker1]

been by myself all day today and it takes 2 people to catch Matilda without scaring the pants off her ie me chasing her round wouldn't be fair. It doesn't look as bad today, not sure if I have got used to it or it's partially popped back. Definitely needs a proper look at though, will report back when I get help to catch her.

[clucker1]

Oopsydaisy, forgot to report back.....anyway...Matilda is fine, a bit of her comb has definitely disappeared , but rest of it popped back. The other things is having 2 skylines now , one with a bigger comb it could be that imagined her to have more of a comb.....thinking about doing photos of the girls as IDs or perhaps I could have them with id tags on, those ones with ribbons and plastic labels