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  1. chickenGrant

    Pecking out feathers STILL! HELP!

    Hey everyone, I am going to apologize in advance for how long and confusing this may be. Alright here we go… By the way these Chickens are just over one year old. So last winter (winter of 2020) is when it all started, I noticed a fair amount of feathers were missing on two out of the three...
  2. C

    Pests or rooster?

    This may be stupid but my Roos favorite hen has this on her feathers. She’s the only one of my flock. Her feathers are crispy? feeling and discolored. I’ve not tried cleaning it off. Is this pests? Bad aim? It’s only right above and beside her tail. None of her feathers look chewed or shortened...
  3. dita

    Recovering Hen with Deformity

    Hello! If this is not the correct area I'm sorry in advance. I felt this might be the closest forum section to post this. I have a Golden Laced Wyandotte less than a year old who is a bit of a special case. She has had a deformed neck since birth and it isn't wry neck. I have taken her to vet...
  4. 5

    PLEASE HELP…..Feather Loss = Disease!?!

    Hi! In Fall 2020, one of my hens molted early, in November/December 2020 two of other my hens began to molt, one of the two had a hard molt. When winter ended, my hen that hard molted fully grew her feathers back, but my other hen didn’t. Two more of my hens have this odd feather loss that...
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    • disease question disease risk disease? feather feather condition feather damage feather disease help anyone😰😰😰😭😭 parasites
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    • Forum: Emergencies / Diseases / Injuries and Cures
  5. chickenGrant

    Pecking each other has gotten worse.

    Hi there. I have three chickens, one golden laced Wyandotte one silver laced Wyandotte and one cinnamon queen. The cinnamon queen seems to be the lead hen and likes to pick on the others. But the golden laced Wyandotte is in second and she picks on the silver laced Wyandotte. Both the...
  6. TheBirdBabe

    I guess feathers are yummy?

    For some reason my rooster keep grabbing my hens.. wherever he can grab at! He gets a mouth of feathers, swallow them & goes about his business! What on earth is going on here?! I've attached pictures of the weirdo in question.. my poor hens are starting to bald! :(
  7. R

    2 week old chicks losing back feathers

    Please help me with this thread: https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/bully-4-week-old-chick.1475476/page-3 I have two week old chicks yesterday found with bald spots on their back near the tail area. Could this be caused by parasite? Or is just pecking by others? 5 out of 7 chicks have...
  8. R

    Bully 4 week old chick

    Hi, i have 3 chicks from the hatchery last May 17. 2 were male and 1 was female. One male last week had a bloody diarrhea and i treated them all with Trimethoprim-Sulfamethoxazole. They are on day 4 of treatment, tomorrow will be their last day. For the first two days of treatment, the male is...
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    • bleed bully chick feather injury peck picking pulling separate stress
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    • Forum: Raising Baby Chicks
  9. Chickenwithnobrim

    Does she need feather help? Pin feathers and wax

    My silkie chicken started moulting at the beginning of April, and she's pretty much done now but she has a bunch of feathers on her head with the sheath still on. Almost all the other ones are scratched off but I don't know that she can reach these ones. Will they come off on their own or does...
  10. Etorb1

    Polish 9weeks losing feathers or being picked on?

    I have a 9 weeks polish that I noticed has a lot of feathers missing on the back of its head. I didn’t notice it being this bad yeaterday. It is in a run with bird of the same age that have been together the whole time I have had them which is about 9 weeks. Is this new feather growth or is it...
  11. sunnie7

    Feathered Feet Genetic Question

    I just hatched this cutie from the egg I believe my Ameraucana Hen x EE rooster (my only rooster). I only have 1 Ameraucana in my flock and no other colored egg layer that’s laying yet. However I can’t figure out where the feathered feet came from?! Only feathered feet in my flock are 2 light...
  12. K

    Broken blood feather advice

    One of my ladies somehow broke a blood feather on her tail. It seems like she keeps opening the blood clot that forms while preening (there are many new feathers coming in around it so she’s back there a lot) and it bleeds. I’m not real comfortable pulling it and it seems the advice on pulling...
  13. B

    Duck back feathers sticking up

    Hello does anyone know why my Rouen’s back feathers are sticking up like this? I’ve had her for about 10 months and she should be fully grown by now. The feathers started looking like this a few days ago and isn’t present on any of my other ducks.
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    • duck feather feather condition rouen
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    • Forum: Ducks
  14. Rhode island chick sleeping by a feather

    Rhode island chick sleeping by a feather

    rhode island chick with a feather placed next to her for comparison
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  15. Elraishem

    Chicken’s feathers growing too close together? Really weird

    I’ve just started raising my first flock of chickens, and I have a 3-mo australorp named Merle whose feathers are growing too close together. She’s had a “fan” between her shoulder blades since her adult feathers started coming in. Upon closer inspection I found that she has some sort of skin...
  16. CityDucklings20

    Ancona Ducklings Growth

    Just wondering if anyone else has raised Ancona ducks? I have 3 that I hatched exactly 3 weeks ago. One started quacking at 1 week old and is fullly quacking now with only peeps when its separated from the others. And they all started getting feathers on their tail and wings before 2 weeks of...
  17. Bird_Lover_17

    Cleaning Feathers?

    Hi! Obiously, it's molting season. My barred rock rooster has been loosing a lot of his sickle feathers (which are beautiful). I want to collect them, but the problem is that they are loaded LOADED with poop. Does anyone have any feather- cleaning advice? I don't want to mess up the barbules...
  18. T

    Ducks eating each other's feathers??

    I have two pekin ducks, both around two months old. The smaller one is often the one who leads the larger one, but I find that the smaller one always nibbles and plucks out feathers from the larger one's wing. The smaller one plucks the feathers out to the point where the other duck even starts...
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    • bleeding duck feather plucking plucking and eating feathers wings
    • Replies: 4
    • Forum: Ducks
  19. AlexD98

    Moult or sick

    I've just got a new hen for my flock(lavender araucana), the previous owner said she's just started to moult... I've got home and upon further inspection ( hope this makes sense) the strands coming out of the feather root/ centre thing are very short ( on her back) also she has quite watery...
  20. FathertoFeathers

    Why do my Muscovy's feathers look so bad?

    My female muscovy ducks feathers look pretty bad and I don’t know what’s up with it. My other Muscovy hens feathers don’t look like this. There is two drakes I have but they don’t really mate with my Muscovy hens they prefer the mallard hens. I’ve looked for mites but can’t find any. l
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