feathers missing

One of our hens doesn’t have feather on her back and it’s red. We just noticed a couple days ago she started making sounds to us that sound sad. She’s drinking water and eating but she is isolating herself. She’ll follow the group but sometimes she’ll just sit alone. Is this molting, is this the...

I’m not sure if this is just my hens picking at each other or if it’s something more what do you guys think Also I just noticed it in the last couple weeks except on the hen in the last picture who has been missing some feathers since I got her a few months ago

hi BYC - so grateful for this site and community as we're now 2 years into our own backyard chickens. Love it. Got a new hen last year (a medici), she's clearly lowest on pecking order. Past month or two have seen this red area on her bottom persisting, with feathers missing. I've never seen...

Hello, My little Dumplin who is about a year and half old is missing a ton of feathers on her belly. You can only see it when I pick her up and she is not missing any around her vent. I noticed a few missing on her head but not bad. I checked her for mites, I have not noticed any bullying...

Hi all, first-time chicken owner here. I've just noticed similar injuries on two of my hens. It looks like the feathers have been removed near the hens' tailfeathers and underneath their wings (picture attached). On one, the bare skin is about 2 inches, on another, about 3. The skin doesn't look...

Hello all! I got two chickens today from a place off of the road in a rural town. The chickens there seemed to have a large pen and it was not over crowded. I got handed two chickens- one with a full set of feathers and another with some bald spots of raw red skin ://. It was pouring so in the...

Our flock of about 12 chickens is looking very scruffy, about 2 months ago the hens began to have bald spots on their throats (not the back of the neck), top of heads on some, and chest on others. We’ve looked closely and not seen any mites or parasites, but they are not getting better. Any...

I have been noticing a loss of feathers on half of my hens butts but no where else all the hens that loss feathers had to be cleaned due to being covered in poop. They all are eating fine and drinking no noticeable change in their behaviors. I also haven’t noticed any pecking or any behaviors of...

My chicken has stripped feathers on her wings and back. I have thoroughly checked her over for mites/lice and have found no signs of any pest. I kept an eye on her and my other two hens to see if any bullying took place and none had. There were times where it looked like she was cleaning her...

This duck was "dumped" at my pond several months ago. She fit right in with everyone else and I was happy to have her. I noticed her feathers were a little thin a few weeks back but I figured maybe she was moulting? Today when I saw them I couldn't believe how bad they were. Does anyone know...

Hello! I’d appreciate some advice. Almost overnight my hen’s feathers were missing from her back. I thought it was aggressive hen pecking. I showed it to the local feed store and they suggested it was a fungus and recommended Blu Kote. I’ve been spraying this now for 3 days...I am not sure if it...

One of my chickens looks like someone has plucked her feathers all the way down one side of her neck down to her breast. It has been this way for over a month. Can anyone tell me what may be causing this and what I can do about it. The feathers don't seem to be growing back.

I came home to a woman trying to round up her dog yesterday. Her dog got loose and ran to my house and attacked my chickens... Killed one of my black chickens injured a couple others. One was my white silkie rooster... He seems to have gotten it worse next to the one that was killed... Ripped a...

Some of my new to me 2 year old chickens are missing feathers on the back toward the tail feathers. It is down to the skin (which is pink) I don't see blood or scabs. Any ideas what this could be caused from?

My hen is about a year and a half. She has looked like this for over six months now. At first, I suspected she was just molting, but that's definitely not the case for how long it has been going on. We do have a rooster, and although his mounting her doesn't help the situation, she was looking...

Hello everyone, This is ElGalloMoron from Bristol, UK, but original from the south of Spain. I'm quite new in keeping chickens and I am enjoying the experience immensely. More than one year ago, I bought a second hand coop on eBay (one of those arks from Forsham that now belong to Omlet), I...

I have several button quail in a 40 gallon breeder tank. I have raised them from eggs. No outside contact and their substrate is newspaper pellets and/or flakes from the local feed mill and they eat gamebird starter from the mill as well. They are inside only, in my master bedroom. I care for...

Hello! I have 6 hens about 10 months old. All are laying daily, but one hen, Lois, has been missing her neck feathers for about 1.5-2 months now. At first I thought uneven molting or pecking order, but neither seem to be the case. I’ve been adding calcium to their diet but no change. Recently...

Hi everybody, it's been a while since I've browsed this site but I'm in need of some suggestions. I have 4 hens - 1 easter egger (2y old), 1 speckled sussex (2y old), 1 blue cochin (2y old), and 1 mutt (1y old). Their coop is 5x4 with 1 nesting box (I've tried another but they refuse to use...

I have had my hens now for over a year and they have been really healthy - knock on wood. For about a month or so now, I have noticed that 3 out of the 6 hens are missing back feathers above their tail. At first I was afraid the other chickens were pecking at them, but as I watch them it really...