Hello, I'm hoping someone can help me work out what is causing this problem. One of our girls has a badly plucked bottom, I'm not sure if it's caused by a disease/parasite, self inflicted, or from bullying. Everyone else in the group of 7 looks fine and have their bottom feathers in tact.
Unfortunately I haven't been watching the girls much lately (13 week pregnant, all I've been looking at for the last 8 weeks is the bottom of the toilet bowl), so I can't give much recent behavioral info. I can tell you she is in the bottom 3 of a group of 7, she was hatched last Jan, her wattles are still nice and bright and she still feels plump. I did get my first ever soft shelled egg last week, but I don't know if it belongs to her or not. See was pecking at her bottom today, but that might have just been because it was annoying her. She also had some diarrhea stuck to her bottom today.
There are pictures of her below, the camera makes her bottom look quite a bit redder than it is, and she looks damp because I'd just washed some runny poop off her before I took the photo
The nice end...
The not nice end...
Any ideas about cause and possible solutions greatly appreciated!
Thanks in Advance!
Ashley
Unfortunately I haven't been watching the girls much lately (13 week pregnant, all I've been looking at for the last 8 weeks is the bottom of the toilet bowl), so I can't give much recent behavioral info. I can tell you she is in the bottom 3 of a group of 7, she was hatched last Jan, her wattles are still nice and bright and she still feels plump. I did get my first ever soft shelled egg last week, but I don't know if it belongs to her or not. See was pecking at her bottom today, but that might have just been because it was annoying her. She also had some diarrhea stuck to her bottom today.
There are pictures of her below, the camera makes her bottom look quite a bit redder than it is, and she looks damp because I'd just washed some runny poop off her before I took the photo
The nice end...
The not nice end...
Any ideas about cause and possible solutions greatly appreciated!
Thanks in Advance!
Ashley