Good to know! Thanks. From what I understand from looking it up it’s mostly only in chickens turkeys and quail?? But I guess anything is possible. But I don’t really handle them too much anyway so I think they should be okay.
Don't Google.@CSAchook
Oh and also, not sure if you’d know this or not, but do you know if there are any diseases transmittable between them that I’d have to watch out for? I tried Googling it but hard to decipher
Thank you!!
I guess all the chickens here are dying of malnutrition and have been for the past decade given on every one I can feel their keel bone.
The only reliable way to assess a chicken weight is to weigh them. This feeling keel bones stuff is such nonsense. Don't fall for this rubbish. If you want to know then you need to weigh them over a period of time.Yeah cause he looked perfectly normal still like good feathers and stuff but pretty sure he was definitely losing weight.
And thanks
I guess all the chickens here are dying of malnutrition and have been for the past decade given on every one I can feel their keel bone.
Thanks! This is very interesting and helpful. Especially cause I can feel some of my other chickens’ bones too. Although I thought it wasn’t just feeling itself that was bad but the shape of it or sharpness or whatever? I read somewhere I think about how it’s “supposed” to feel. But even that probably isn’t 100% accurate.The only reliable way to assess a chicken weight is to weigh them. This feeling keel bones stuff is such nonsense. Don't fall for this rubbish. If you want to know then you need to weigh them over a period of time.
You also need to take into account the breed and structure of the individual bird. By the feel the keel bone test just about every chicken outside the USA died years ago.
Gamey type fowl are different.I guess all the chickens here are dying of malnutrition and have been for the past decade given on every one I can feel their keel bone.
True!! My Leghorn is definitely a lot scrawnier and bonier than my Australorps
of course the Leghorn isn’t a game bird but still. And I think I need to put the Australorps on a diet 
