Duckfarmerpa1
Herd Master
Hi there. We have a white chicken, we call her Whitey..we believe she is a leghorn. She has been healthy, other than about two months afpgo she had a yucky bumm, and we needed to trim her bumm feathers. Other than than, no issues. She was given to us in August...she seems to rank high in the pecking order because she can fly, and the first batch of chickens we got from the bad farmer had their wings clipped. We don’t do that to our pullets. Anyways..she seems very social, and is a good layer. Yesterday I was checking out my birds..giving them attention and cuddles. Whitey had bad bare skin under her wings, by her bottom, and under her belly. These areas are not from a delayed molt, or feather picking from other birds...they couldn’t pick her belly? I checked her over for mites, lice..nothing.. checked many of my girls for the same..nothing. I’ve had no issues with that...so far. She is still laying, at least she is always hanging out in the nest box, so I think that’s what she’s doing. Hard to keep track, since I have thirty five hens. I suppose I could put lipstick on her vent...yuck... but..what to do in the meantime? Why is she doing such a thing?? Should I put salve on it? My hubby loves bag balm...would that help, it’s frigid here. Any advice would be very useful...even if we are just throwing out ideas...sometimes thats how the bast ideas come!! Thanks everyone!!