Missing feathers and a few scabs?? New chicken.

Ashrhod710

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Aug 19, 2020
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So a little back story, my daughter wanted a little Brahma pullet so we got her. She was 10 weeks old then. It’s been about..... a month? Give or take a week.... when we got her I noticed she didn’t have any feathers under her wings. That’s the only place missing any. She still has what feels/looks like down feathers in plenty of places so found that a little odd as well. Anyways, I was told she was molting and I accepted that because We haven’t had any molting yet here so I’ve never personally seen it. Anyways now I’ve noticed she has scabs in a few places, and it seems they are mainly where her bones are a bit more prominent. Like where they poke up some. Does that make any sense? Still no feather growth there. She’s always felt warmer than the others but I don’t see any reason why she’d have a fever? And especially for this long? The whole flock has been on amoxy-Tyl for the last 6 days as well so I would assume if it was infection causing her fever that would take care of it. ( if it is fever....) ( and flock on amoxy-Tyler because a neighbor had a few chickens wonder to our flock and they looked sickly including fowl pox :(. Vet suggested a broad spectrum antibiotic because a couple days later two of our chickens started runny noses and “coughing”. Annnnnnd our flock started showing fowl pox signs about 3 days ago so that’s another freaking worry. :(.
 

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The scabs could be from pecking.
Feathers take some time to come in plus with the stress of moving to a new place, she should be starting to get more feathers. It is either molting or over mating. Either way, the feathers should grow back.
Sorry about the extra worrying you are having!
 
The scabs could be from pecking.
Feathers take some time to come in plus with the stress of moving to a new place, she should be starting to get more feathers. It is either molting or over mating. Either way, the feathers should grow back.
Sorry about the extra worrying you are having!
I’m hoping it’s something simple like that. However she’s only 12 ish weeks and she hasn’t even had a rooster try since she got here. ( ours is JUST now starting to mate a couple of our older hens.) she really doesn’t seem to have grown a whole lot either. But that could just be my mind playing tricks.
 
Other than pecking, I have no other ideas. If she isn't being pecked from the current flock, the feathers will grow back. You could stop giving treats to help her eat her chicken feed to get the feathers to grow back faster.
 

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