Warning of dirty butt and cloaca photos below.
We have four large, fluffy orpingtons with huge feathery pantaloons. And one of them - is a complete mess. We've been giving her a water butt bath weekly since the weather's warmed up. I think it's mainly poop but it also looks worse each time she's laid an egg.
Any ideas of why it's just her? Maybe she just doesn't eject her poos as far as the other girls? Or they're particularly wet?
She is the largest of all of the girls and does eat the most (and eats //anything// she finds). They've all been treated for lice, mites, and worms. She had a ton of lice last year, but this year there's been done. All the mess washes away when she has a bath. She eats normally, lays normally, is vigorous in charging for treats and helping me dig for worms.
Only other thing that's changed is she's starting making high pitched chicken sounds a lot (she never spoke before this year). Like she's just been able to find a voice and doesn't know how to use it. And she's been more scared of us, but she's also been on the bottom of the pecking order for about a month (usually last or next to last). Fear and pecking order possibly due to being singled out for baths.
I don't think there's any white or yellow discharge, and her cloaca looks how it normally does.
The photos are from about 2 hours after laying another 80g egg - she is big, lays big eggs. Before and after the bath.
She smells fine - poos are just starting to smell as our weather warms.
We have four large, fluffy orpingtons with huge feathery pantaloons. And one of them - is a complete mess. We've been giving her a water butt bath weekly since the weather's warmed up. I think it's mainly poop but it also looks worse each time she's laid an egg.
Any ideas of why it's just her? Maybe she just doesn't eject her poos as far as the other girls? Or they're particularly wet?
She is the largest of all of the girls and does eat the most (and eats //anything// she finds). They've all been treated for lice, mites, and worms. She had a ton of lice last year, but this year there's been done. All the mess washes away when she has a bath. She eats normally, lays normally, is vigorous in charging for treats and helping me dig for worms.
Only other thing that's changed is she's starting making high pitched chicken sounds a lot (she never spoke before this year). Like she's just been able to find a voice and doesn't know how to use it. And she's been more scared of us, but she's also been on the bottom of the pecking order for about a month (usually last or next to last). Fear and pecking order possibly due to being singled out for baths.
I don't think there's any white or yellow discharge, and her cloaca looks how it normally does.
The photos are from about 2 hours after laying another 80g egg - she is big, lays big eggs. Before and after the bath.
She smells fine - poos are just starting to smell as our weather warms.