Large breasted chicken!

[Chickenlady]

A couple of years ago I was given an unidentified chook, bantam sized but not a true bantam I don't think. After about a year she seemed to get very large around the breast (she is otherwise quite scrawny). We kept an eye on her thinking she might be ill, but she ate, laid and pecked around so seemed OK. Now she has the most enormous and wobbly breast - it looks seriously odd! She still doesn't seem ill, although I don't think she is laying much, if at all.

Any ideas? should I be worried? I think she is about 5 or 6. I would try to find a pic, but I can never work out how to post one here!

[Chickenlady]

I just read this through and it sounds like a joke!! It isn't !

[ina]

Maybe it was one of those specially bred for the chicken breast industry?

[Shirley]

no idea chickenlady - but if you want to email me a pic then I could put it on here for you, or you could have a try yourself on the practice and deleted section of the forum.

As I understand it, to put it on here you need a website/photo hosting place and you put the link in your message using the Img button.