Recent content by AllTheChookins

Update: after looking into the advice and surgery photos of that very similar looking situation in the link above (thank you very very much) I decided it wasn't a 'wait and see' situation, despite her now acting and looking otherwise very healthy and happy. I seriously contemplated home removal...

Oh wow, that is a significant amount of gunk. It looks about the same texture as what I am feeling, bugger. Is something like that likely to need surgical removal to ever heal? I'm finding it hard to imagine her little body could clear something like that away naturally. Thank you very much

Okay, so the more I have watched this chicken, the closer I think she was to a very miserable fate. I spent a full day in the run with her watching how she moved, checking her crop, vent, feet, legs, watching her lie on her side with her eyes half closed and beak open. No apparent foot and leg...

Thank you so much. All great things to consider and check. I'll update with any findings especially re swollen joints and foot issues, as she is hesitant to move about mucn.

Hi everyone, new poster here. Today I picked up a new hen to keep one of my chickens company. The new hen is a Rhode Island Red, about 10 months old. The previous owner needed to rehome her because she was badly bullied by her flock. She had been living along for 2 months at this point. When I...

A few days later, I have a chicken with the same issue. How is your chicken doing?

Hi, I'm hoping you or someone else can post a follow up, as I have a hen with exactly the same issue too. I just got her so I don't know whether to keep her seperate, in case she introduces disease to the flock. I have put on a hydrogen peroxide based wound cream after a bath and have spent...