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    One Hen with Dirty Butt Feathers (Updated with Pics)

    Does anybody have any experience with the Poultry Guard dusting powder listed here: http://theholistichorse.com/Poultry.shtml? We saw it advertised in Backyard Poultry magazine and are wondering if anyone has used it successfully?
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    One Hen with Dirty Butt Feathers (Updated with Pics)

    Wow, they ARE eggs! Now that she's all clean & dried off we inspected her vent again and they are definitely white egg clusters - they look like the lice egg pictures. Our other two hens have them too, but not as badly (and they also don't have any poopy feathers) We're going to treat them...
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    One Hen with Dirty Butt Feathers (Updated with Pics)

    We fed our hen some active culture yogurt yesterday and cleaned her butt today. We got most of the poop off, but at the base of her feathers right near her butt there was a weird substance. It is granular - almost like a mineral or something. Is that some sort of by product of egg laying? Warm...
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    One Hen with Dirty Butt Feathers (Updated with Pics)

    Thank you for the advice! I will try to wash off the dirty area to see if it comes back - I have been wondering if it was a one-time soiling & not an ongoing issue. I do sometimes give them dinner scraps along with their regular chicken feed pellets and so maybe something from that gave her...
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    One Hen with Dirty Butt Feathers (Updated with Pics)

    I have three 1.5 year old backyard hens. They are all acting healthy and eating normally, but one of the hens has had dirty (poopy) feathers around her butt for the past few weeks. Her poops are sometimes normal (round, brown, firm with a white top), and are sometimes brown and runny. She's...
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