Help with dirty butt!

[dannyd21]

Hey all I have a chicken who is 3 years old and her bottom is looking pretty dirty. She seems to be missing some of her bottom feathers does anyone have a remedy for this?

 

[nuthatched]

Diet? Coop and run space? For how many hens? Checked for mites and lice?

 

[dannyd21]

Diet? Coop and run space? For how many hens? Checked for mites and lice?

Layer feed crumbles and table scraps. 3 hens large run and coop no mites or lice.

 

[Debbie292d]

We had a hen that had that, always, her whole life. We would use a kitchen scissors to clean her back end every few months, then soak her butt end in a tub of warm weak soapy water and wash the rest off.

I read to try probiotics, but mine were already getting them every other day via fermented grain. She was the only one out of over a dozen hens that got this and we never found out why. She died this spring but was old so it was expected.

If you find no cause for it, keep her back end short so it doesn't stick so bad.

 

[dannyd21]

Yeah they have

We had a hen that had that, always, her whole life. We would use a kitchen scissors to clean her back end every few months, then soak her butt end in a tub of warm weak soapy water and wash the rest off.

I read to try probiotics, but mine were already getting them every other day via fermented grain. She was the only one out of over a dozen hens that got this and we never found out why. She died this spring but was old so it was expected.

If you find no cause for it, keep her back end short so it doesn't stick so bad.

Yeah they have really fluffy butts lol its always been an issue this one just looked really dirty ill definitely try probiotics tho

 

[Debbie292d]

Yeah they have

Yeah they have really fluffy butts lol its always been an issue this one just looked really dirty ill definitely try probiotics tho

Like this? Beats me why they don't all have issues honestly!

I hope the probiotics work!

 

[Ilovemychicks08]

My light brahma is this way her butt is always dirty. Ive trimmed it, washed it. And even kept it trimmed. It still returns. She is healthy otherwise.
She is the only hen ive had do this

 

[dannyd21]

Like this? Beats me why they don't all have issues honestly!

I hope the probiotics work!

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i call my chickens fluffy butts!