Same problem here: Bald, puffy, red butt. Vent is not protruding. She's eating and pooping. She is acting "normal." I mean "typical" of a chicken. She's been like this sans the red part with bald puffy butt for 6 months?? And carries on like normal. I've red multiple threads and no one definitively finalizes the thread and very few updates. Many say "if acting normally" she's fine... If the other chickens peck, separate her. Look for mites, treat if see. Mine is not laying normally- no egg for 1.5 weeks, so now I am back worried again, but I checked yesterday and I don't feel a stuck egg, and don't see odd broken egg ooze... So?? Do we think shaking her would help? JK
CAN a chicken live happily with a bald red butt? How many days of 'no eggs' on a 1yr old Americauna is okay?