please help, bloody butt chickens!!

[sscaria]

Backstory: Previously we had a white leghorn. she had a bloody butt, very severe.the blood was coming out of her butt, not from pecking. We snipped the feathers around her butt and watched her and separated her. she got better. a few months later, she got another bloody butt. not as severe as the last one. this one caused her death, though. she died at 8 months.
Today, there are two chickens who also have bloody butts. they're very small, almost no blood, but I'm still worried. What's wrong with them?

maybe this will help; my sister said that she had filled up their water, so of course nobody checked. then we realized she had lied and they didn't have water for maybe a day or two. we immediately filled it up and they all drank.

also what's a better name for a chickens butt? Kinda feel dumb saying 'butt' over and over lol.

 

[MysteryChicken]

Backstory: Previously we had a white leghorn. she had a bloody butt, very severe.the blood was coming out of her butt, not from pecking. We snipped the feathers around her butt and watched her and separated her. she got better. a few months later, she got another bloody butt. not as severe as the last one. this one caused her death, though. she died at 8 months.
Today, there are two chickens who also have bloody butts. they're very small, almost no blood, but I'm still worried. What's wrong with them?

maybe this will help; my sister said that she had filled up their water, so of course nobody checked. then we realized she had lied and they didn't have water for maybe a day or two. we immediately filled it up and they all drank.

also what's a better name for a chickens butt? Kinda feel dumb saying 'butt' over and over lol.

You can call it a butt. It's usually referred as the vent, or cloaca.

Dehydration may have been the cause, but I don't know.

I'd still keep an eye on everyone.

 

[sscaria]

You can call it a butt. It's usually referred as the vent, or cloaca.

Dehydration may have been the cause, but I don't know.

I'd still keep an eye on everyone.

alright, thanks for the new vocab!

what usually are the causes for bloody butts?

Yeah, that's what I plan to do

 

[MysteryChicken]

alright, thanks for the new vocab!

what usually are the causes for bloody butts?

Yeah, that's what I plan to do

A few causes of Bloody bottoms are:

Pecking from other hens

Hemorrhoids/ruptured blood vessels

Gumboro Disease(Not Seen Often)Highly contagious.

Coccia(Occasionally, almost always appears as bloody stool depending on the strain)

 

[azygous]

"Butt" just about covers any area on the posterior of a chicken. It's a very necessary term here on BYC or the language police would have banned it long ago, I have no doubt. They often get worked up if one of us uses the word "a$$". You can say "poop" but you can't use the word" $hit". "Vent" is the orifice where poop shoots out. "Cloaca" is the inner workings of the "vent".

Cannibalism usually begins when a chicken is curious about something on another's butt and pecks at it to investigate. That often causes a small pecking wound which bleeds, and that triggers the blood lust of some chickens. Then the wound quickly becomes large and more serious. Blu-Lotion used early on a wound can camouflage it so this train wreck doesn't happen.

Occasionally, a hen can have a reproductive crisis where an egg gets stuck. In trying to push the egg out, the strain can produce vent prolapse. This will appear as raw meat hanging out of the vent, and the other chickens will have it reduced to ground beef in no time unless you intervene. This can cause death if not noticed in time.

 

[sscaria]

A few causes of Bloody bottoms are:

Pecking from other hens

Hemorrhoids/ruptured blood vessels

Gumboro Disease(Not Seen Often)Highly contagious.

Coccia(Occasionally, almost always appears as bloody stool depending on the strain)

Alright, thank you