What's happening to this girls feathers ?

J Fox

Songster
6 Years
Jun 19, 2015
35
17
109
South Jersey
Seems to be getting worse. Small scabs on her back maybe ? Any ideas ?
400
 
Any chance another hen is pulling her feathers out? I haven't had this happen but there's been a couple posts lately about chickens plucking/eating other chickens' feathers. I can't really tell from the pic, but does it look like the feathers are plucked out or broken off?
 
When I pick her up and look there is no broken feathers in there her skin is smooth as far as that goes but does look "dry" or irritated.
Problem is I am so new to this I have no idea if it could be caused by mites or ? And I have no idea what to try to make it better. Is Neosporin a yes or no now ? I've read both ?
 
Well as far as how long - she always looked fuzzy - her name is Muzzy. But now it's worse and missing feathers. It's been worse for a e few weeks now.
I would love to check her for mites - how does one do that and I will do that tomorrow ! And will look for the Vetericyn tomorrow as well ! Thank you for the replies and I will look into the mites and what to look for
 
How's your hen doing? I'm hoping somebody more knowledgeable will hop on this thread and give you some advice, I haven't dealt with anything like this with my peeps yet.
 

New posts New threads Active threads

Back
Top Bottom