Well let me just say you saved both me and the girl from some torment! She would have had her gland tied off and I would have been the laughing stock of the office! Thank you for savin' our bottoms!!
That's what it is! So why have I never noticed it before? I had this chicken for 6 months and am constantly out there playing with them and have never seen it before.
This is exactly what it looks like. Any ideas on how to treat it? I was thinking of tying a piece of floss around it as I commonly do that to dogs with skin tags and such.
So I went out to check on my girls today and was watching while my Easter egger was preening and noticed a large lump near her tail feathers when she fluffed up. I scooped her up and looked at it and it has small feathers coming out the top and was slightly irritated. She didn't mind me poking...