WolfLady
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Hi!
I have a hen that always has droopy tail. At first, I thought she was sick, but it's been 2 months already and she's acting normal. I did notice she was pecked (or she pecked herself?) the base of her tail to blood a month ago, but nothing concerning and it healed well by its own. I decided to touch her tail today and I realized it's stuck, very stiff, into droopy position. It's hard to explain, but my other hens if their tail are droopy, I can gently lift it up, left or right, it does move freely. That specific hen, I can't move her tail, at all, it's stiffened into that position and she never moves her tail neither.
She is 4 months old at the moment, on picture she was 3 months old. Except last month the blood from pecking (attack or herself, cannot tell), she doesn't seem to have had any injury. She's acting normal, has good energy as well. She wasn't born this way neither, I had her as a chick and her tail was normal until she turned about 3 months old.
Any idea what it could be? Could her tail muscle/bone/nerve been damaged from potential attack and caused that?
This was her at 2 months old:
I have a hen that always has droopy tail. At first, I thought she was sick, but it's been 2 months already and she's acting normal. I did notice she was pecked (or she pecked herself?) the base of her tail to blood a month ago, but nothing concerning and it healed well by its own. I decided to touch her tail today and I realized it's stuck, very stiff, into droopy position. It's hard to explain, but my other hens if their tail are droopy, I can gently lift it up, left or right, it does move freely. That specific hen, I can't move her tail, at all, it's stiffened into that position and she never moves her tail neither.
She is 4 months old at the moment, on picture she was 3 months old. Except last month the blood from pecking (attack or herself, cannot tell), she doesn't seem to have had any injury. She's acting normal, has good energy as well. She wasn't born this way neither, I had her as a chick and her tail was normal until she turned about 3 months old.
Any idea what it could be? Could her tail muscle/bone/nerve been damaged from potential attack and caused that?
This was her at 2 months old:
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