flaky skin

Howdy! This is my first post on Backyard Chickens. I am a first time chicken keeper. I've learned a lot from other threads on this site. However, I haven't found an answer to my particular problem. I mail-ordered chicks (from Chickens for Backyards) back in July of 2023: three Buff...

Yesterday I came home from a 4 day trip and found my Muscovy hen under the shed with a clutch of eggs. She was too far underneath the shed for me to get her so I let her be. This morning when I went to go feed the birds I noticed she was limping quite badly. So I picked her up and immediately...

Hey! I’m not sure how to help my duck Holly. She’s been having a lot of leg issues for a while that aren’t resolving with my treatment. First it was bumble foot and a small limp. I took her to the vet and she removed the scab and infection on the bumble, took X-rays of the limpy leg. The x ray...

Hello all, One of our chickens is stomping her feet and then itching herself with her beak. She has been doing this for a few weeks, and I have inspected her thoroughly three times, and every time I don't see anything amiss other than some dry, flaky skin. Do chickens suffer from dandruff? :)...

Hi everyone! I am a new chicken owner and I recently got 4 chickens. Two are both 2 weeks old, one is 3 weeks old, and the other one is almost 4 weeks old. All of the chickens have been sneezing (sometimes bits of snot, other times not) and shaking off dry skin. I don’t know if this is normal...

A month earlier my chicken got attacked by a raccoon one chicken died and another chicken named 'red' got abunch of feathers pulled out from the raccoon, but there almost fully grown in now. But after a month from the attack I've been seeing Flaky skin on her, it hasn't change color from her...