Midnight Maran Momma
Songster
This is Kowalski, my six month old Black Copper Marans chicken nemesis. Another chicken can lay an egg next to her and she'll ignore it, but if she sees me reaching for it, she'll fight me for it and break it, if she can get to it first. She also has developed a taste for my fingers. She is a jerk.
However much of a butthead she is to me, I still hope she isn't sick.
Does this look like fowl pox or just her comeuppance from other chickens? I haven't seen any swelling or white blisters on her comb. This is the second time in the last two months that she's had these marks on her comb, and now that I (sadly can't unsee) know what fowl pox is, I'm worried that she may have it.
She's only been laying for about two weeks, now. She has five other flock mates (BCMs, EEs & a PBE). She has access to grit & oyster shell bits, and eats a mix of Kallenbach layer feed and 22% protein Nutrena crumbles. Her bedding is pine shavings that are shop vac'd out & changed out for fresh ones every 1.5 - 2 weeks. She's eating & drinking just fine. Luckily for her, she lays pretty, chocolatey, speckled eggs.
What do you guys think? Pecked, or pox?
However much of a butthead she is to me, I still hope she isn't sick.
Does this look like fowl pox or just her comeuppance from other chickens? I haven't seen any swelling or white blisters on her comb. This is the second time in the last two months that she's had these marks on her comb, and now that I (sadly can't unsee) know what fowl pox is, I'm worried that she may have it.
She's only been laying for about two weeks, now. She has five other flock mates (BCMs, EEs & a PBE). She has access to grit & oyster shell bits, and eats a mix of Kallenbach layer feed and 22% protein Nutrena crumbles. Her bedding is pine shavings that are shop vac'd out & changed out for fresh ones every 1.5 - 2 weeks. She's eating & drinking just fine. Luckily for her, she lays pretty, chocolatey, speckled eggs.
What do you guys think? Pecked, or pox?