I have 3 leghorns and a rock. The one rooster has horrible frostbite on his wattle and comb. It's white and black. I've tried putting vaseline on, but it doesn't seem to be working. Even when he's inside his home with 2 heat lamps, it's still not warm enough. It's saskatchewan and the coop keeps the wind out, but it still gets bellow zero inside. What should i do? The hens are also starting to get white comb tips.
Frostbitten chicken help!
plz help....5 views but no answers :(
i hsave had mild frostbite here on roos combs. sometimes it heals on its own, sometimes it stays black.
consider getting breeds with a pea comb or rosecomb that are more suitable to your weather. i only accidentally got a couple of regular combed birds in the mix
try www.albc-usa.org to learn more about special breeds
hope he is OK!
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i only want a few chickens thnx lol. The 4 of them r spoiled pets. I'd never get different ones :P
hey, just found some info for you, look at the thread below yours...
ok
nothing i've never heard before *sigh* wut to do...
Fire Shy.. I know zip about chickens. But if they were mine and I was you I would call a vet and ask for some information.
You might also pop over to here
http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/t/794313/
and ask Carol... Ceeadsalaskazone3. She raises chickens and has snow and ice and cold. Maybe she can giv e you some help. She showed us pics of her chickes on her thread and hers are nice and healthy.
Here's a link to a site that dissuccing the same thing
http://www.thepoultrysite.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1655
hm ok thnx
which person? lol. i dont c
Click on the Daves Garden link first. Then at the bottom of the thread, just post Carol..... and ask her your question about the chicks. Try that first. Ask her abotu the frostbite and a way to winterize.
The second link is a chicken forum, and that one you may have to join, I sent that one because it tells of another woman with frostbitten chicken she tryign to save and what the polutry experts their recommended.
k thnx...i must be blind tho, but i still dont see Carol! lol. at the bottom of the page? left? right? lol
Fire Shy.... Click on this link.
HYPERLINK@davesgarden.com]
Go to the bottom of the thread and type your message in the box like your doing here on this thread. Just start it out Carol.... and then type your messgage so she will know your talkign to her.
If you still don't get it figured out. Holler and I will send her a link to here to try and help you when she comes on.
um...i'll give a holler lol plz. I'm not good with all this stuff.thnx
LOL.. Ok. I not the best with puters either. : ) I will send her a link to here and maybe she wil se e it tonight or in the morning hopefully.
In the meantimehopefully somebody else that a chicken raiser in the cold will join in and help.
Sure hope ya can get some help for your babies, cuz I know what it feels like when they sick or hurt.
ya, thnx lol. They are my babies basically. I sung one of them to sleep the other day. It was funny, her eyes slowly closed half way through the song
I don't know , but til somebody can offer some good advice. Do you may have a seperate warm room in the house you can keep them penned up and then only let them out for awhile and and off durign the day long enough for them to get a bit of exercise.
Hi fire shy
i saw star light's post over on carol's thread.
I know exactly what you mean about these chickens becoming our pets, i have quite a few like that too.
Don't panic! First off, what do you have on the flooring? The lamps are great for them to get warmed up, get the floors deeply bedded as well, i think that will help. what is their house made of? my understanding is that chickens mostly need a shelter from wind, i am only in ohio, not nearly the cold that you are dealing with, but i also keep heat lamps going in their house so if they choose they can get under them, some do that mostly just to get dried off then they go right back outside in all sorts of icky weather.
Are the lamps pretty close together? that might help to concentrate their heat more. how far off the floor are they? perhaps they are too far up to help that much.
Also, make sure they always have water- in winter you will have to use the ones with heated bases to keep it thawed out, and of course some extra chow to keep some extra chubbiness to help ward off cold.
I don't have leghorns, but last year my little Ancona, Ozzie got her comb frost-bit. She is about the size of a leghorn. A bit of it turned black like yours has done and she is fine now. I hope this helps some.
BTW, to me it is not a bit crazy to try starlight's idea of a 'warming up room'.
I live in Northern Michigan and had a leghorn as a kid that got frost bite. I was just a kid and didn't know much, (don't now either for that matter) but I put a healing salve on it and insulated his little dog house. The affected parts turned black and eventually fell off, but the rest healed great and he lived for 5 more years. When he got old I put a heat lamp over his pearch that I could Turn on when it went too far below zero. Here in Michigan, I realized that smaller spaces stay warmer than larger, so every winter I put blue board insulation across the roof rafters of my coop to reduce the height and use a couple of lamps (the ones with aluminium reflectors that look like bowls) hung over the perch area.It get's to 20 below here and I've had no problems.
You are right, wind is the worst thing. More chickens means more heat for each other, maybe you need more chickens. (EVERYBODY needs more chickens)
"(EVERYBODY needs more chickens)"
here, here!
I put a wireless thermometer in the hen house and with closed up fpr the night the temp has been rising slowing but surely all night. I have a heatlamp and a water base heater. It started out at 24 and it reads 36 right now.
Sorry for taking so long to get here fireshy, I finally read the whole thread and my suggestion is to make your coop smaller so the heatlamp will warm it. Is it insulated? If not, insulate a smaller area,( I know you must have an electric heater under your water fount) You only have 4 birds, so you can somehow reduce the size of their inside area somehow. Careful with the insulation, they will eat batting of fiberglass or the white stuff and even pick the solid styrofoam. Cover every little bit of it. Little narrow beaks will find it. If you have a room indoors you can put them in a hutch with wire bottom and use newspaper which you can burn each day. (Woodstove?) To hold down smell keep fresh sawdust or cedar chips underneath on the newspaper. They make diapers for parrots available at pet stores, You did say they were pets, right? Only four birds, and I would use a porch, probably the 'back' porch and really make pets of them. A little daily cleanup and there you are, probably training them to do tricks and selling out auditoriums with you're "Fireshy's Amazing Chicken Act."
I'll be buying a ticket, Carol
My chicken used to play fetch, roll over, play dead and "sing" on command. I didn't have a lot to do as a kid and they wouldn't let me have a dog.
Does the big rock chicken roost or sit on the floor? My cornish crosses usually slept on the ground, but my rocks roost. It does have really big feet and legs like the cornish cross do and they tend to "elbow in" like your photograph too.