overweight

We have a very large and fenced in backyard with a few chickens. Recently a CO worker informed me he had 2 turkeys 3yrs old in a small cage he needed to rehome. These are white turkeys both female and although they were fed well due to no exercise they gained an enormous amount of wait probably...

I have 3 indoor cats. Two senior kitties who are both on the skinny side and one 5 yr old fluff monster named Talaat who is overweight. He's 15 lbs. I have always had dry food out for the cats in the past and never had an issue but Talaat is clearly eating too much. My initial thought was to...

Chicken friends, please help! I have a small 3-hen flock (pecking order, top to bottom: polish, bantam frizzle cochin, salmon faverolle). The salmon faverolle has laid 1 egg in all of May and she's 2 years old. She's overweight and has seemed more lazy lately. Her poops vary from perfectly...

Hello All! I had a question about weight loss for my chubby Cayuga, Fonda. Her "food boob" is much larger than all of the other ducks in my flock. I have a mixed flock of runners, Welshies, khaki Campbells and cayugas. The one other Cayuga doesn't have as prominent a keel and they are all fed...

This isn’t very high priority, but one of my hens, about a year ago, had one of her nostrils wear away. Basically, there’d be a pinhole and a line separating her nostril in two, and over time this got wider and wider until most of her nostril just fell off. That was a year ago and she didn’t...

I have a 4 month old Leghorn I think that is 5 times bigger than the other five chicks I am raising her with her with. She's actually seems like it's hard to walk. She also has no feathers on her sides. She really never did but it seems like they're thinning even more. I attach the picture any...

I have a 4 day old chick. They are over weight. Is there any way to help him/her become healthy. They are lethargic and I am very worried.

I have a bantam that stays mostly inside. She goes out daily in warmer months and stays in our home in the winter (we have other strictly-outdoor chickens, she is a special case). Over the past month or two, I noticed her gait change to a waddle and she feels bigger in her bum and sometimes...

Hi, I’ve three chickens - 2 marans and a Sussex. One of the marans is huge; the other two hens are normal size. The fat hen eats twice as fast as the other two and lives for food. When we got her home she was larger than the other maran and we noticed how much sturdier her legs were. How do...

As you can see, Gordo is quite bigger than his brother chick. I didn't know that Cornish broilers got so big when I initially bought this one but now I feel so bad. He gets so tired he can't walk and sits down often and has hair loss on his bottom. Is there anything I can do to help the guy lose...

Question - I have one very large Easter Egger hen that I end up having to wash her back end just about weekly due to the build up of stool. I have her feathers trimmed to the point where it looks like she encountered a lawnmower. She is not sick and the stool is normal I think just because she...

I have three TS ducks that are about 3 mos old and are quite large. Two of them are fine, but one is apparently overweight and having trouble walking. I am a newbie and don't know why one if the three is experiencing this complication. Seems ok other than this. They all eat the same food and...