St. Phatty
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My white Silkie has started her 3rd egg-hatching cycle.
I noticed she has some raw looking flesh on her comb.
Because her 2 boyfriends like to stand on her back and grab her comb in their beak, I think I'm just seeing the result of a recent egg-fertilizing session.
She's about 2 years 9 months old. She weighs about a 1/2 pound.
She is the most fearless of all the birds. She has a habit of charging larger animals.
Last summer she was scalped by something. Cut off all her tail feathers, a slash about 2/3 down her back that looked like someone slashed her with a butcher knife. Fortunately just raking across her backbone and not paralyzing her.
I think she might have charged a mountain lion, then turned around and run for her life just as something was slashing her with one single sharp claw.
Anyway, she's strong, so if this is just chicken foreplay damage, I think she'll be OK.
On the other hand I know birds don't always live that long; her sister died at about age 1.