Update on Berthas mystery illness

[coltgrizzz]

Hey guys so a while back in November i posted about my chicken Bertha (leghorn) who got sick but had all the symptoms in the book of it just simply being caused by her moulting. Fast forward a bit to this month, Bertha still isn’t laying, has orange feet (compared to my other birds who have pale yellow legs), yellow earlobes, and still has a pretty small comb. A month after I wrote the post I put some teatree oil on berthas comb because it looked dry. Overnight her comb turned bright red but it’s still pretty small. Any ideas as to what’s up with her? Photos below are of her a few days ago

 

[sourland]

To me she looks like a post molt hen who is about to start laying relatively soon.

 

[coltgrizzz]

To me she looks like a post molt hen who is about to start laying relatively soon.

She’s been moulting since October.. shouldn’t she be laying by now though?

 

[christwodog]

She’s been moulting since October.. shouldn’t she be laying by now though?

I have a blue ameraucana who molted in Sept/ October and just started laying last week, so it's possible!

 

[Kiki]

The other thread: Is my chicken sick??

 

[Eggcessive]

Yes, she even has the yellowish earlobes that my ancona hens used to have during and after a molt every year. She will probably start laying soon.