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I've been a chicken keeper for 3 years now and haven't run across this. Hoping all of you knowledgeable poultry keepers have and can give me some indication if I should be worried or treating something. I have two situations going on with feathers currently.
1. My Welbar on the surface looks to be going through a slight easy molt. However she's looked like this for months now. She's eating, drinking fine. No weight changes. Lays good. I'm thinking maybe other chickens pecking and pulling feathers? I thought also about depluming lice but the feathers look cut or bit off. I tried to get good pictures. Please zoom in in you can to see what I'm talking about. First 2 pictures.
2. I have 3-4 other chickens that are missing their neck feathers in front. Could this really be just the feather being rubbed off from eating out of the feeders? The skin looks great most of the time. Sometimes it gets red from being exposed to wind, cold, etc. All those birds too are eating, drinking, laying fine. Last picture of Cuckoo Maran.
With both of these things I'm not seeing any pecking from other birds on one another. At least not bad enough to do this.
I thank you in advance for your time and responses!
1. My Welbar on the surface looks to be going through a slight easy molt. However she's looked like this for months now. She's eating, drinking fine. No weight changes. Lays good. I'm thinking maybe other chickens pecking and pulling feathers? I thought also about depluming lice but the feathers look cut or bit off. I tried to get good pictures. Please zoom in in you can to see what I'm talking about. First 2 pictures.
2. I have 3-4 other chickens that are missing their neck feathers in front. Could this really be just the feather being rubbed off from eating out of the feeders? The skin looks great most of the time. Sometimes it gets red from being exposed to wind, cold, etc. All those birds too are eating, drinking, laying fine. Last picture of Cuckoo Maran.
With both of these things I'm not seeing any pecking from other birds on one another. At least not bad enough to do this.
I thank you in advance for your time and responses!