I have a few doing that, I see it when they are moulting. Or stressed from whatever chickens get stressed from.
Is it foamy? If so could be a bit of a coccidia infection. Some Corid will help.
No foam.
No blob of goop today either. In my concern (panic) I may have exaggerated how often this had been occurring. Thinking on it, I’ve seen it a few times, and the recent case was twice in two days. So now….it’s obviously not every day.
Today’s pullets exam turned up nothing, nobody had any distension or lumps or hardness in the belly, in fact I had a hard time finding much belly to prod before I got to the vent muscles under there (need to repeat, was that firmness actually muscles? It was moving…) they seem to have skeletons going all the way back! I will feel again tomorrow. Since I don’t handle them much I was very pleasantly surprised by their trust in me. A little hard to catch, some struggle with one, a big flapping with one, the two others more compliant, but all stayed in place well enough once situated.
Vents: also hard to find. Their fluff is extremely dense back there and nobody has been pecking/ bothering anybody else’s vent. They looked fine, a pale skin color (yellowish in Buckeyes), no red or wounded places.
Keels: everybody is in good condition except Lizbel is under-condition, but she’s not bad. A lot like Hazel that way.
I didn’t pick up Shehnai, I didn’t want to break my winning streak handling the pullets and had no treats on me to reward him with (I went and got some for everybody after the exams). He hung around while I examined each of his ladies on my lap, and a first for me! - he did a little shuffle dance, and then asked for something, probably treats, by swiping my knee.
