Rescue hen has scar on her belly that looks like she’s been cut open and stitched back together!?

[Feelingpoorly123]

So I’m out seeing to the hens today in their run and giving them some attention and I notice she has a really thick scar on her abdomen. It’s like when a cat or dog is spayed and stitched back together. I am totally perplexed by this. My girls are rescue hens who were previously used for food trials. Any ideas?

Its almost unheard of for a chicken (pet or otherwise) to be operated on to treat illness (they don't Really survive well).

My bet is that they ‘opened’ a wound on her to insert or Introduce potential allergens.
Then sewed her up after.

Really gruesome and happens to all sorts of animals in lab testing situations.

They are supposed to give them pain killers but Im not sure how that would work with a chicken! (Ps I love chickens and own 6 but they are brilliant at hiding illness so by the time they show they are ill they are often dying so pain relief isn’t even an option 😥)

@Feelingpoorly123, the much more likely answer is that she was targeted by more dominant hens. It's where the phrase 'pecking order' comes from. I've seen hens which have had wounds from other hens attacking them.

Agree with Tethersend, sounds like a vivisection experiment, it's unlikely they would have bothered stiching her up/saving her after an accident. That saying I've had some nasty raised wounds from spurs on chickens and ducks that can come up looking like an operation scar.