probably a prolapse. clean it off with warm sterile water, get as much debris off as humanly possible, and if you use gloves with a little bit of Vaseline you can push it in, careful to not cause any damage. you may have to have a vet suture the wound so it does not happen again.
I'd have to talk with my parents, they don't really care about the chickens as much as I do, and I hardly ever use my phone, as I need permission to do that, and they never give me permission. I'm thinking it may have something to do with her suddenly going broody?
I know this is an older post, but could it have been a breast blister? hens typically get them from irritations on their roost, like if its dirty or there's little wood splinters poking up if you have a wooden roost
I'm so sorry that you are going through this. I had this loving blue Americauna hen named Herobrine--all the positive traits you described above--and she was my best show bird. (won 3 blue ribbons, one of which was a third blue championship out of 168 people) i had only shown for one year, and...
rn I have 14 hens and 2 cats. A raccoon if you count the one that walked up to me and started biting my coat sleeve. At one point I had 37 hens 2 goats a dog and 3 cats.
Hey all,
I have an olive egger hen, little over a year old. She has a rather large comb, and just last night as I was putting the babies to bed I noticed the back end of her comb looks kind of black. It's like a bluish purple, almost like a bruise. None of the other kids have it, and it hasn't...