Unsure What’s Wrong With My Chicken

[NikkiW17]

First day, first post (aside from introductions), so I’m just gonna wade on in here....I have 3 Wyandotte chickens, 2 are golden laced and one silver. The two GLW were hatched the same day; I’ve had them since they were 3 days old...at first they grew like weeds. I nicknamed them the Double Mint Twins as you never saw one without the other. They’re about 3 months old now...and the difference between the two is night and day!
One is the normal perfect size about 3ish pounds, the other looks like she’s a bantam. She eats and drinks and mucks around just as normally as all the other chickens. She holds her own in the pecking order (and some of my older ladies can be testy!) the only note of question I have when looking at her, is she still kinda seems to get pasty butt, but it doesn’t interfere with her vent. It more looks like she’s messy....her poo doesn’t seem to be too wet...no other chickens seem to have any symptoms either. We do feed them kitchen scraps as well as their chicken feed and they get scratch and a list of other treats every now and again. I haven’t moved her on her own because...I don’t know if she’s sick? Or if I am glaringly missing something. Any suggestions?? The picture of the poo I am sorry...this one got a little out of hand...she was having a bad day...but this was hard when we cleaned it off of her.

 

[Wezdin]

Welcome To BYC! does she roost at night or sit on the ground? I am thinking she might have some kind of parasite, that would explain why she is a bit smaller. Can you get a pic of the poo in closer detail?

 

[NikkiW17]

She sleeps on the roost...she does not like sleeping on the ground! If she falls off (I can’t help but laugh when they do sometimes) she makes a fuss until someone gets down there with her I guess to help her see enough to get back up. I’ll try and get one tomorrow. The one I posted is a few weeks out...and it’s never looked that bad before or since...but still messy

 

[glassdragonfly]

What a Pretty little girl you have!

 

[Wezdin]

There is nothing glaringly wrong i can see, if you are really worried you can send in some of her poo to have a fecal float test done. This is the only thing i can see that might be wrong with her. Good Luck!

 

[ShannonR]

Trim her butt feathers maybe?

 

[NikkiW17]

What a Pretty little girl you have!

Thank you! She’s my buddy for sure!! She has a special call she makes when she sees me. I just had surgery this last week so it was a couple days of not getting out to her; today was her first day seeing me and she stuck with me like glue! My others fussed at me for a second and then were their typical aloof selves lol. But not my Pansy.

 

[NikkiW17]

Trim her butt feathers maybe?

That’s a good idea and she’s calm enough I’d be able to do it. Thank you.

 

[NikkiW17]

There is nothing glaringly wrong i can see, if you are really worried you can send in some of her poo to have a fecal float test done. This is the only thing i can see that might be wrong with her. Good Luck!

Yeah, I’d do that, my husband I don’t think he’s willing to pay for it. His line of thinking is; “if it’s not good, then it goes away....” We harvest the eggs and eventually the chickens themselves...so culling one he thinks is sick is his way. But I’m too attached to her! Lol

 

[NikkiW17]

We are getting some new nest boxes for the girls so this may help test the parasite theory...as she may be sleeping on her current one now and gets her poop on her during the night unintentionally...or it is a parasite...I still can’t figure out why she’s soooooooo tiny. Like bantam size. I’ve had bantam Cochins and Amber Rocks and she’s the same size as they were..