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I'd definitely keep an eye on them. We have a Light Sussex, she always has a dirty backside while her sisters are clean. We ended up cutting off her feathers from round there, and that has helped but I think ours is a case of lazy, perhaps. Or having something wrong with her that isn't illness as such. She's the one that has a hernia that might have led to her death when she came into lay, if it caused problems, which so far it hasn't. Glad we didn't have her put down as she's a fine, lively hen albeit with a belly structure not quite finished because the vet thought she was helped from the egg.
It's untreatable, the hernia that is, can't be seen by the other hens, and hasn't got any worse so we just think that might have something to do with her inability to groom as frequently as the others. She will probably, however, have to be separated out as and when she enters into moult as there's a risk the others would see the lump underneath her if the feathers aren't there for a while. |
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