Damaged comb...

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I am so annoyed!!! I have one cockerel who is an accident waiting to happen has been since he hatched. Grrrr.... he has somehow torn half his comb..blood everywhere...and to cap it all he won a first at the Fed, no chance of ever showing him now poor boy looks like he's been dubbed... :roll: :cry: I would post a photo but don't really want the rspca on my back he looks awful...
 
aww, poor chap!
Any idea how he did this??
Some animals, like some people are, I'm sure ,just unlucky / clumsy / stupid!!
 
OMG Poor little man! How the heck did he do it?!?!? Was it a vet job or have u got the Savlon and vaseline out? Keep us posted... One of my birds lost a toenail during the summer and you would have thought there had been a massacre in their run so I imagine you would have got a bit of a shock!
Hope he heals ok.
 
Thank you for your kind comments, Horatio is fine, and yes I was shocked! He looked soooo handsome at the Fed and now...well....

This is what he used to look like.... :shock:
 

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Sorry to hear about Horatio, :cry: he looks such a lovely bird, almost like he is wearing a muffler round his neck :)
Love his name also :lol:
 
Poor old Horatio- although at least his comb accident wont stop him producing lots of beautiful show winning offspring :D
 
oh no poor chap but i agree with pebojuno at least he will always have his offspring to keep you feeling proud even if he cant go back to the show ring they can :D :D
 
Oh I am sorry poor lad, but as everyone else said at least his tackle is still complete :lol: :lol:
 
victorias poultry said:
Oh I am sorry poor lad, but as everyone else said at least his tackle is still complete :lol: :lol:
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oh yes! :lol: :lol: very enthusiatic about his girls!
 
Hey F,
Hows handsome Horatio doing now... all healed...?
Had to ask as his name popped into my head last night (playing power rangers with my 6 year old :oops: ) And I called myself Horatio the Hero Chicken Ranger - purely taking the pxxx out of myself and power rangers..... :-)09 - you must be envisioning a really strange site here.. I'm not honest, just being a mum! x
Hope he's not too badly scarred
 
Oh no ,poor boy! Choco ran into some mesh and sliced his--dont they bleed! I patched it up quite well with steristrips , thought about stitching it but decided not to --despite it healing surprisingly well with the steristrips I wish now I had done as I think it would have been cosmetically better. He looks like this now--ros new pics 347.jpg A lot better than if I just left it but if I were a plastic surgeon Id be sued!!!Ros
 
He still looks a very handsome chap to me Ros, not a bad job at all :lol:
Aileen, your posts always make me laugh. Hows your little Pekin by the way? I do hope its not bad news.
 
Hey!! I still have my pekin (just) last Wednesday I had to practically beg my vet for a script for Tylan, I got it but nearly a week later it still hasn't arrived from Animal Medic! So am still doing the Baytril 2 times a day but it's really not helping.... I'm not sure if Myco bug can grow immune to meds or not. I have been advised Tylan is on route, so will stick it in her water for a few days to see if she perks up when it arrives.... But right now I would guess I will be on here in about a weeks time with a snotty kleenex looking for a pick me up... :-)07
 
Hi Aileen, yes Horatio is fine, not quite as handsome as he used to be....but his ladies don't mind! :D :D (think he is a bit of a charmer mind... :lol: )
I really hope you get your meds soon for your boy, keep us posted x

Podstable - love your boy what breed is he???
 
Foxy-----hes an Orpie bantam and very cuddly even if he does look a wreck from comb and now also oven ready thanks to one of his girls who now has a lump of plastic in her mouth! GRRRR! Ros
 
Judging by the comments we are possibly panicking a bit too much but our light sussex, who has only just come back on the lay this last week, having developed a very large, bright red comb seems to have cut/ripped it. Being white it does look like a minor massacre but we just wondered what we should do to clean her up and stop it becoming infected?
 
Hi Paul. When any of ours have damaged combs we dab/wash with lukewarm water and then smear Savlon or teatrea cream. In the case of hens they are then separated to stop any of the other hens pecking it open again before it has scabbed. As I'm sure you know, inside every chicken is a cannibal waiting to get out. Once they have turned there is no cure. In the case of cockerels, they are isolated until completely healed -the scabs have dropped off. This is because the top hens will be allowed to pick at the scabs, which is good as it stops infection. But in some cases, particularly with our Wyandottes, they peck and taste blood and keep going. Arnold had half his rosecomb eaten by cannible hens -his first as well! They were immediately despatched and we gave him some placid ones when he was fully healed.
 
Thanks Chris. That's comforting as we did exactly what you have suggested in cleaning her up and even used Savlon cream. The only thing is we haven't separated her from the other 2 hens tonight but will be on the look out tomorrow!
 
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