Chicken with a bleeding bum

[Hilary B]

It's not clear from the posts, but can you actually see the injury?
Could it be a feather 'in the blood' (ie just growing after the previous one on that spot was shed) been pulled out? That would bleed quite a lot, and it wouldn't be very strange for just one or 2 to have feathers at the right stage for it to happen. Most other small wounds (where there are feathers) don't bleed very fast, they tend to just ooze...

PS, a weasel can get down a mousehole, easily, and reputedly can go through a hole the size of a wedding ring, but a stoat is a bit bigger.

[HayleyB]

To be honest Hilary that does look like it could be it, one of the two girls was pulling at her own feathers in that area, then licked her beak to get the dried blood off.

I gave Chookingham a good clear out today with new woodchip floor and dowsed as usual with RM powder and I covered the woodchip in louse powder - they dust bathe in it so delouse themselves.