Rural Gardening: A major question on chichen disease, 1 by kassy_51

kassy_51 wrote:
Hmmmmmmm, I'll have to run the frostbite idea past my boyfriend. Thanks silkie.
And thanks Haystack for doing some searching because we are lost as to what it might be. I was at the point of not wanting to raise out own chicks anymore. I hate to see them go through this.
I have a question though on the frostbite idea.
Why did the comb on footless not grow at all during that time then? I couldn't tell if he was a rooster or a hen, until he lost his feet. It was after that that his comb and waddles both started to grow and he started crowing. And he showed no signs of frost bite on his waddles or comb.
The Araucana Rooster that we lost was the same age and had full waddles and comb.
We have 14 hens and 3 roosters at present time and they are divided into 2 coops. The younger ones are in one and the older ones are in the other one. All of them that had the problem where in the youngsters coop.
This is one of our young Araucana hens that is in the same coop and is the same age. She is a very friendly little girl and lays the most interesting color of eggs, not a light green, but more headed towards and olive green. Sorry if the picture is a little dark, but they were in the shade when i took them :)