- Jan 8, 2013
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I've had my two chickens for a year and a half and until recently have had no problems with them at all. One of my girls, Babs, went through a molt and stopped laying, this was a couple of months ago, and her plumage is fine now but she has not resumed laying. Yesterday afternoon I noticed she seemed a bit lethargic, not nearly as energetic as Ginger, her friend and she seemed to want to sit under the garden table we have out. I let them both out again this morning and she slowly walked out of the run and sort of stood fluffed up and tail down looking depressed. I checked her over and was surprised to see a bald patch where her vent is (below the tail and slightly under). Her eyes are bright, and she seems to have a healthy glossy plumage as normal, but today she doesn't seem to want to move or walk about, what little she has done, it's slow and looks as though painful. I checked her feet and legs, both seem fine. She's picked at some grass here and there, and ate about ten bits of sweetcorn but she just isn't well, clearly. I don't know how to check her crop, or her vent for that matter. I just don't know what to do. Please help