Hi all!
Bear with me, please...this is my first year with chickens as an adult.
I got my second batch of chicks for the year last night.
5 Ameraucanas
5 Blue Laced Red Wyandottes
5 Salmon Faverolles
4 Cochins
2 Black Spanish Turkey Poults
2 Lavender Poults
The two lavender poults and one cochin chick (all a week old) have crusty, brown, hard feathers on the front/sides of their necks. Is it just from dirty conditions, or is it more insidious?
I've noticed a lump under the skin on several of the chicks' necks, that would be most understandable if I say it feels like an enlarged gland when you're sick. It's a little right of center...maybe it's the crop? I don't remember feeling it on my Barred Rocks when they were this small. (They're 4 wks now.)
Sorry for the seriously novice questions, I can't seem to find answers anywhere.
THANKS!!
Bear with me, please...this is my first year with chickens as an adult.
I got my second batch of chicks for the year last night.
5 Ameraucanas
5 Blue Laced Red Wyandottes
5 Salmon Faverolles
4 Cochins
2 Black Spanish Turkey Poults
2 Lavender Poults
The two lavender poults and one cochin chick (all a week old) have crusty, brown, hard feathers on the front/sides of their necks. Is it just from dirty conditions, or is it more insidious?
I've noticed a lump under the skin on several of the chicks' necks, that would be most understandable if I say it feels like an enlarged gland when you're sick. It's a little right of center...maybe it's the crop? I don't remember feeling it on my Barred Rocks when they were this small. (They're 4 wks now.)
Sorry for the seriously novice questions, I can't seem to find answers anywhere.
THANKS!!
