Hi all, noticed a chicken with bad poopy butt and was cleaning her up when I noticed long (2-3 inch) "tubes" that were obviously not poop. After rinsing as much of the poop off her rump, i gently grasped one of the two "tubes" and ever so gently pulled to see if it was caught in her feathers...
I have 7 Golden Comet hens that are excellent layers of beautiful brown med-large eggs. They are coming up on 16 months old (hatched April 3, 2022). I am rehoming because I don't have the room in the hen house for them and the new chicks that are coming online (I fell victim to chicken math...