  We discuss the pole mass and the width of the $\Delta(1232)$ resonance to
third order in chiral effective field theory. In our calculation we choose the
complex-mass renormalization scheme (CMS) and show that the CMS provides a
consistent power-counting scheme. In terms of the pion-mass dependence, we
compare the convergence behavior of the CMS with the small-scale expansion
(SSE).
