fat chicken

I have a sweet Cornish cross hen named Lucy that I kept as a pet from my last harvest because she was just so darn cute and affectionate. But now she is getting so fat no matter what I feed her, layer feed, worms, and just letting her forage, she just keeps getting chunkier, I can only estimate...

fat 10 week old cross rock begging for scraps they eat then eat then eat then eat again they can barely walk i feed em grain plus free range amazing growing rate the one year old i kept weighs 16 pounds would lay a few eggs mostly just LAY in front of feed bowl

this specific chicken is about 5 weeks or 6 i forgot but i’ve noticed that throughout the day it’s always laying down. when we take the chickens out so they can be in the yard the white chicken is always laying down. perhaps it’s too fat to stand? i’m not so sure if it’s normal

Being a novice chicken owner my husband misdiagnosed our Cochin as getting fat when in actuality it turned out she had sour crop. She was acting normal but had a flabby chest area and unfortunately she stayed like this for possible two months or more. I did not find anything on the site for...

I just wanted to know if my chickens are under or overweight

I have 8 week old chicks. I bought them from the same bin at Tractor supply. They were all sex links, and the sign says they were bred for egg production. 2 were brown, 2 yellow. The brown ones look and act just like I thought chickens would, but the yellow ones are ginormous and fat. They won't...

Hi. I ended up with a Cornish cross chicken as a pet, not to eat. It grew and grew, ate and ate. It's huge and fat and now it can't walk. Is there any coming back from this? Now that she can't walk she is not eating as much only what we put in front of her. Will she lose weight and recover? Im...