poopy bum

Howdy! This is my first post on Backyard Chickens. I am a first time chicken keeper. I've learned a lot from other threads on this site. However, I haven't found an answer to my particular problem. I mail-ordered chicks (from Chickens for Backyards) back in July of 2023: three Buff...

My sweet girl Dixie was sluggish and sat down when she ate she also had this really bad poopy butt. She is getting better, she is still slow but not waddling by feeling her keel she seems to have lost weight compared to other chickens. She still has the bad diarrhea and I wash her behind with...

I have a hen that has just been acting... off. She has had some runny poo that's now stuck on her feathers. Also, she's been acting sluggish. Still eating & drinking, but she's walking with her tail pointed down instead of up, like all my other girls. 🤔 I don't entirely blame her, it's been in...

Hi all any ideas please? I have a Sussex coronation she has just started to lay about two weeks ago, she continually has a poopy bum, which I have cut back the feathers a little bit when it gets a bit yucky looking, I get an egg a day from her. my other five chickens are not laying yet they all...

I have a 1 year old sapphire gem. While checking her over this morning I noticed she has no feathers on her crop and underside and her skin is bright yellow. I’ve never seen this before and I was wondering if I could get some insight! She’s eating and drinking normally, she seems to be acting...

One of my little chickens is sick and has been for a few days now. I'm very worried for her because she seems so weak that she's unable to drink or eat. She doesn't move a lot either and usuly just stays under a Bush tail down and eyes closed. At first I thought she was egg bound so I gave her a...

Hi I'm a first time chick owner, I got 9 silkie (probably mixed) chicks 3 weeks ago, two of them were 2 weeks old and 7 of them 1 week old. I'm in a small city in Mexico now, and the local resources are quite limited. I've been feeding them the only commercial chick starter (I believe it's...

I noticed last week that Priscilla's butt was oddly poopy - very wet and her feathers were a mess. I hosed her butt off and thought that would be it. 2 days later, the same thing but also noticed her comb seemed to be a little floppier than normal. I went out of town for a few days and this...

Anyone know why I'd be getting a poopy egg? It's only this hen. I could understand the occasional poopy egg in the old set up as it was small and semi muddy but this one they've only been in a week and the nestboxes are perfectly clean. No other hen has this issue. Yet hers are not only a little...

I have a white layer duck who is having some issues this spring. I got her (with a few others) last fall from a duck farm that was going out of business. After noticing poop stains on her backside the past month and a tail held to the left side, I finally wrangled her into a corner and checked...

I have a hen who is always looking a bit off.... She is 34 weeks and never laid an egg. I have noticed her butt area is a bit brown (and she is grey) and i was going to give her a butt bath, so I turned her upside down and took a look to see how gross it was.... and i discovered a scab or crust...