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[gavclojak]

Hi omleteers. I was just giving the girls a pre Christmas once over and noticed a lump on Barbara, I will try to describe it....if you follow the breast bone down to just between the legs and I think just in front of the gizzard, on the bone is a small lump, it feels like bone or cartilage and the size of a petit pois maybe smaller. It may have always been there but she is loosing a few feathers at the moment so maybe I just haven't noticed it before. I checked the others and not sure if they are the same or not...they saw I was giving the a check and started to scarper...

 

She is perfectly ok in every other way but am curious as to what this might be?

[jimnpaula]

It might be the xiphoid process which is the very end of the keel or breastbone. It varies in shape in humans so maybe it does in chickens too.

[gavclojak]

WOW...that is very impressive...always to the rescue Paula x

[Chortle Chook]

I'm dead impressed too I was thinking of a chicken carcass (sorry ) and thought of that wobbly bit at the end of the breast bone

[gavclojak]

Ah but Paula (jimnpaula) is cheating, she had a medical background:))))

It is just that I hadn't noticed it before and it seems quite noticeable, I was sure I would have noticed it but maybe not. Guess it must be nothing to worry about, I was scared she was loosing weight that's how I noticed but she still feels well covered.

[jimnpaula]

Ah but Paula (jimnpaula) is cheating, she had a medical background:))))

Now you know it's there keep an eye on it, but I expect it's nothing to worry about, as long as she seems happy and healthy and well covered.

 

I do often wonder what the breed mix is in your ex commercial birds though, Hen Solo is quite a chunky thing with short dumpy legs! I love her light ginger colouring, she's dropping those purple feathers all over the place now with nice new ginger ones coming through.

 

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[gavclojak]

yes its funny they are all the same.ie dumpy... they came from the same farm too, when I got them home I took two to the vets for the ivermectin and she mentioned how well covered they were for ex commercial girls. I have two very dark red birds and two very light ladies. but they are not graced with long legs.

[gongladosh]

wow, you learn something every day!