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Hi! My family and I recently got our first four chicks! We are first time chick owners. One of our chicks looks like their feathers are being plucked! It was bleeding more yesterday and I took these pics this morning. We aren’t really sure what to do! The chicks are about 2 months old. We think...

Iv'e seen my male quail mate with her but every time they do so the feathers from my female quail gets pulled and now he pulls on the skin Ouch... Is this okay or should i do something?

Butchered this corn x yesterday, as I was plucking I noticed its very strange skin! It looks like different colored patches but it was actually more like it was patches of super thin skin that I could see through. And visible thin veins. I skinned it and the meat seems fine but I'd like to know...

My wife and I just harvested our first rooster, we plucked him. She wants to save some of the feathers we plucked to use for crafts. Can the plucked feathers just dry on their own, or do we need to do something to them? This is a first for both of us. Thanks in advance for the advice!

One of our girls is missing feathers on her front neck. I’m a year into our chickens and I’m not sure what it is. None of the other girls are missing feathers and doesn’t seem to look like multing. Or mites? Hoping it’s not mites. I’m thinking it is from plucking. I’ll attached a picture. Can...

Hello, I bought 8 more chicks to add to my flock of 4. When the chicks grew to pullets, I introduced them to my older chickens. I thought everything was going well, maybe one or two pecks at each other, but nothing bad at all. Yesterday, when I got home from school, I found one of the pullets...

So, today we (my mother and I) picked up a free turkey hen. She was being given away because apparently the owner's Muscovy Duck male was attacking her relentlessly and caused quite a bit of damage. My primary concern at the moment is the large amount of feather loss she has sustained, and parts...

I have a 8 month old white crested blue polish rooster, in August as he was molting I noticed the feathers on the back of his head had been plucked out. I first though he got into a fight with one of our leghorns since they are very moody birds. So I took him out and isolated him from the rest...