Recent content by Clayre66

We have recently noticed some grey balls growing at the base of our chickens’ tail feathers. They do not wash off/out like solids balls of poo do - they take a lot of pulling off. We recently bathed our chicken and pulled off a lot of these balls, which on closer inspection are a bit like...

Hello. We live in SE England, just outside Windsor. We’ve had pet chickens on our old (not working) farmstead since 2017. And we had pet ducks until the fox got them in 2022. We’d had neither before, so we’re complete novices. We’ve looked to ‘backyard chickens’ for advice for common...