I do not see her taking dust baths but i have seen her constantly preening and she is at the end of the molt and her feathers are very silky and seem normal.
Now that i have studied it more today, i think that the bump and feather might be unrelated. The feather is about a centimeter away from...
her skin is peeling everywhere underneath her. Also, she does have the keratin all on her but if you pull up her feathers and look at her skin, it looks like she is shedding skin.
she is almost 8 and she has been sleeping in a nesting box for awhile now but there is nothing odd about that.
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actually, i looked at it again and the smell was probably stuck on poop. also, underneath her she is peeling in a lot of spots. is that normal during a molt?
The black bump underneath the bump looks odd it that is what you are asking. Also her skin is peeling around it and on it and it seems a bit smelly but it might have been something else? I have noticed she has discharge in one eye but that only occurred two times (she also has small respiratory...
No, she has normal colored and shaped pupils. But she does have drooping eyes... as you can see in the picture the front corner or her eye and skin have a bit of space but I don’t think that is related.
Hi everyone,
my hen has a few things that are odd. One, she is molting and on the underneath of her there is a hard bump that I have circled in the photos. It isn’t attached to anything, I can move it around. Is it a tumor or something like an ingrown hair since she is molting or is it deadly...