poopy butts

  1. TheRusticRebel

    First Dirty Butt Cleaning!!

    My oldest hen, a 5 year old RIR, had started getting a dirty butt about 2 maybe 3 weeks ago. It was just a small streak of white at first. Looking back i should have rinsed it off then. I thought maybe shed clean it herself but no. It got worse. This morning i finally got out there and got her...
  2. Fluffyfanny

    Rooster Down

    Help!! I have a young bantam Cochin Roo that seemed fine yesterday. This morning I found him completely layed out, it just looked like a mangled mass of feathers. I picked him up thinking he was dead but he was awake and breathing. I held him about an hour thinking he was dying but he was able...
  3. H

    Hen with poopy butt

    So, I have a hen (just turned 1 year old) with runny poop, and I'm not sure what's causing it, but wondering if I should trim off her poopy butt feathers? It first started happening last fall after I gave the chickens some apple pulp from my juicer, and then happened intermittently throughout...
  4. ShrekDawg

    Poopy egg and poopy butts???

    Anyone know why I'd be getting a poopy egg? It's only this hen. I could understand the occasional poopy egg in the old set up as it was small and semi muddy but this one they've only been in a week and the nestboxes are perfectly clean. No other hen has this issue. Yet hers are not only a little...
  5. T

    Hens with poopy butts

    Over half of my flock have poopy butts. This isn’t something I’ve ever noticed before! They are all acting normal and happy, but are all quite messy. Nothing has changed in their diets. I treated them with corrid this past fall. Could they possibly be needing probiotics?
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