Could really use some advice. Saw some posts about insides coming out but most had intestines or such coming out. This one was just hatched with a bulging vent? It was bleeding initially so we thought some guts may come out if it kept flailing around 😳. This is our first time hatching the eggs...
I have a 22 week old Easter Egger hen, the largest of all my chickens and much larger than her fellow EE, who seems to be acting fine but has a large swollen bulge on her abdomen, about 2 inches bellow her vent.
Theres no overall significant redness, no swelling on the actual vent itself, or...
Hi! This is my first post on byc.
I have a days-old female appezeller chick I'm a little worried about. I bought her from Freehling Farms in Kittaning PA two days ago. She had a little bit of poop stuck on her vent, but I gently cleaned it off. There was also a trace amount of dried blood the...
I have a 1.5 year old speckled sussex that stopped laying about 2.5 weeks ago. She acts completely normal, very active, very chatty, eats very well, but no eggs.
I feel a firmish bulge below the vent that is larger than the other hens. You can't really see anything amiss as she has feathers...
1) What type of bird, age and weight (does the chicken seem or feel lighter or thinner than the others?
We're not 100% sure as we got her from a rescue group, she is an ex-caged hen, she is about 15 months, I don't know about her weight
2) What is the behavior, exactly?
She was staying under a...
There is a strange HARD bulge on her front. It is yellow-ish & appears to have some dark red (tissue??? meat????) on it. It is a little larger than a quarter. There is no other trauma to the duck. We just noticed it last night. There do not appear to be missing feathers in the region. It...