pecking

  1. Kalthia

    3 of 5 Hens with pecking injury???

    We are new to chickens and have had our flock outdoors for about a month. Today we went out to feed/water noticed three of the five have slight injuries to their cheeks and head combs. Looks like it just happened. We are building a coop extension this weekend (was already planned). Do I need to...
  2. J

    What does this look like? Does it look like mites or pecking

    this is on my rooster i have did some research and need some help i dont see any mites or any discharge on him this is what it looks like im not sure if it appeared like this over night or the past couple of days i dont remember seeing it yesterday but i may have just not noticed it the black...
  3. arstarr

    Peck wounds, Missing Feathers Not Healing

    So my hens are about 9 months old and I've always had trouble with my them pecking each other and pulling feathers out. I've tried blu-kote, Vetericyn Antimicrobial Poultry Care Spray, letting them free range more to get away from each other, and vitamin supplements in their water. Nothing seems...
  4. William Mellor15

    Quail pecking other Quails toes

    Hello, I've recently acquired 2 quails and they're living together, male and female, they were from different shops so this is their first introduction to each other, yesterday i noticed he started pecking and pulling her toes out from under her, as if he's found some sort of worm. He does the...
  5. M

    HELP, mother hen pecking babies

    I had an old English bantam hatch 5 baby chicks about 3 weeks ago. Today I kept hearing painful peeps. I went and checked on them throughout the day. She is plucking their feathers and eating them. One is now bleeding because she won’t stop and they’re staying away from her. I since took her...
  6. jschmi

    Chicken plucking other chicken’s feathers out, causing them to bleed! Help!

    I have 6 chickens, 3 Rhode Island Reds and 3 Golden Lace Wyandottes, I raised them from chicks together and they are now about 6 months old and one of the Rhode Island Reds’ is starting to pluck the feathers off of all three of the Golden Laced’s backs near their tails. I just started noticing...
  7. BauerWFarm

    My Brahma has sores on her wattles

  8. chktender

    Pox or pecking???

    Aloha! One of our Easter Eggers, Mia, has some sores on her face, waddle, and comb. I can't tell if these are wounds or pox. We do see her getting pecked at by another hen, which started recently after she had a week of being broody. Could she be getting pecked at because she was broody (its...
  9. Gasthaus Luther

    Which hen do I keep?

    I have a Welsummer and a Russian Orloff. They are both 6 months old. The Welsummer is social and is fun to have but she’s very feisty and has been pecking at the Russian Orloff to the point of the Orloff having no more fathers around her neck and we saw blood for the first time, which is what...
  10. M

    Help! Hens missing feathers!

    Hello smart chicken people! I’ve noticed that all my hens seem to have these bare spots on their backs, right above their tail feathers. Today I went in the run and noticed one looks really bad, seems to be missing the majority of her back feathers and there was some blood at the base of her...
  11. Kurakurakulaku

    Chicken suddenly pecks the other

    Hi… I only have 2 chickens I raised since they were 8 weeks. They’ve been so cute together all these times, I called them besties. They walk everywhere side by side. Then, one of the chicken is molting and becomes very aggressive toward the other chicken. She starts pecking the other chicken...
  12. A

    Mysterious balding on my hen.

    So to start this post it needs to be clear that this is my first time owning chickens, and although i’ve had them for over a year i’m still learning. So i have three hens, and two female ducks who are peas in a pod(?). for the last year that i’ve had my chickens and the last 5 months i’ve had...
  13. The chicken nurd

    Missing feathers

    So I have a hen who is very clearly the bottom of the pecking order and missing quite a few of her wing and tail feathers although otherwise she’s not badly injured but she’s been in the flock over a year and still is pretty badly picked on my question is would it do any good to separate her so...
  14. F

    New chicken being pecked

    Hi all, We recently added a couple of new chickens to our flock. We tried to introduce them gradually, keeping them separate but next to each other for a few days and introducing them at night etc. There was still a bit of scuffling and chasing around, but its been 2 and a half weeks and they...
  15. N

    Ducklings pecking at chicks

    So I got 2 female ducklings (mix between pekin, rouen, and welsh harlequin) and 2 female chicks (black sex link and columbian rock plymouth) a few weeks ago. The ducklings are currently about 4 weeks old and the chicks 5 weeks old, but the ducks are significantly bigger. They were in seperate...
  16. G

    Mites, Pecking or Something Else?

    I have attached a couple pictures of my salmon faverolle. She has missing neck and butt feathers. They’ve been missing since February but it’s recently gotten worse and she stopped laying. She eats fine and acts normal. Is this mites/lice, pecking or what? I know she self pecks her neck on...
  17. Cindy-her6

    Pecking Injury?

    I think my chicken got pecked? It's my first incident. What do I do? Should I seperate her? Seperate the offender if I find her? Thanking you in advance! Any advice greatly appreciated!
  18. M

    Help with turkeys

    I keep turkeys, chickens, and ducks. This is the first year I've started turkeys. I have turkeys and ducks in a separate coop from the chickens. My turkeys are about 8 weeks old and constantly fighting each other. I have one separated right now because of a deep pecking wound I'm treating. I...
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  19. Skibum

    Polish Chick damaged feather need advice

    I got a mixed flock of chicks born March 29 so currently between 5-6 weeks. My polish chick tried to escape yesterday. I had a dog crate divider over their coop to try to avoid them flying out. Learned my lesson because poor penguin beat up their head feathers trying to get out. Since then the...
  20. M

    Mites or pecking at each other?

    Help! Just noticed this today and I keep a pretty good eye on my chickens. Does this look like mites/lice or like someone was pecking at her? She’s acting completely normal, eating and drinking well, and not itching/picking at all. One other chicken as a similar but less severe look. Some have...
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