No Emergency -- Just a Chick That Poops on Itself

[nobodyherebutuschickens]

Wait, rumpless? That's a thing? Chickens can actually be born without butts? How does that work?

 

[seminolewind]

As SpeckledHen told me once : some have Teflon back there and some have Velcro!

 

[Phoenix3]

My silkie is a bantam and is rumpless. She seems so tiny compared to the other bantams we bought at the same time. Was this what you found too?

 

[BadgerHill]

I too hatched a rumpless silkie. And there ate poop problems. Glad to read this post!

 

[Urchin]

Wait, rumpless? That's a thing? Chickens can actually be born without butts? How does that work?

Well, not exactly without butts, but without a cocyx, so there's nothing for tail feathers to grow on. Arucanas can be rumpless or tailed and the Manx Rumpy never has a tail.


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Mine is smaller than the other chickens, too. And of course the much larger bantam cochin rooster fancies her. She has a mohawk now more than a crest because he hangs on for dear life or he slides right off her back. When she goes broody, I just let her stay broody for a while so she gets a break from him. Thank goodness I don't have any LF roos.