Ameraucana Hens Loosing Beard Feathers!

Hi!
Just checking in to see if anyone's bird regrew their beards and muffs? I am seeing this as well with my (formerly) bearded lady.
 
I'd like to know if anyones beards grew back too. My rooster has started losing his feathers and a couple of my girls are now beardless completely (looks weird... i don't like it!).

No lice, no change in eating, free ranging hens and rooster, plenty to eat! Whats going on?? I've never seen them peck at each other.
 
After I posted on here I found a forum on an Americauna breeder site, it explained that it all starts with them having food caught in their beard after drinking water, another chicken will "clean their face" and pull out the feathers. I'm selling my beard-eater, she's the only one with a beard and I've seen her cleaning my favorolles face without realizing she was pulling feathers.
 
Hi! I am having a similar problem, but with my purebred ameraucana hen. She is kind of lower/ middle in the pecking order, in a flock of 5 hens. I just checked my other ameraucana, top in the pecking order. No feather loss. The weird thing about my hen is that the feather loss is mostly on one side of her face. She is not molting, and I'm thinking that it may be mostly happening at night, due to the fact that most of the feather loss is on one side of her face. There is no feather loss on the rest of her body, either. I'll post pictures later if I can get a good one.
She is about a year old, (This week, actually) and has been laying for a month or two. She has been eating layer pellet since my BRs started laying, the August of last summer. She gets oyster shells and grit, if that means anything, and she gets to go out in my backyard for a couple hours when I clean the coop. (Believe me, she would go out every day if my parents were more tolerant of chicken poop on the patio
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Does anyone know how to help this? She is looking very lopsided right now and I don't take her to shows or anything, but I would prefer if she got her feathers back, if possible. :) She doesn't seem to be in pain, and the only redness is slightly where the feathers would have been poking out. The skin around them is normal. My hens are relatively nice to each other, but twice I have seen her let them pick at her face and comb while she squats. (It's hard to describe how she does it, but it seems rather forced or fearful, if that makes any sense. She goes really low and just lets them peck.) Any ideas?
Thanks in advance!
 
Have you checked her for mites? A breeder near me had told me "When you're checking for mites, you have to look as if you WANT to find them." In other words, search very carefully and close for small red bugs/mties. She said to check around the gland above their tail, the vent area, or around the face. My chickies have fresh wood ash to bath in every so often which prevents mites so I've never had that particular problem.
 
Have you checked her for mites? A breeder near me had told me "When you're checking for mites, you have to look as if you WANT to find them." In other words, search very carefully and close for small red bugs/mties. She said to check around the gland above their tail, the vent area, or around the face. My chickies have fresh wood ash to bath in every so often which prevents mites so I've never had that particular problem.
Hi, I have checked for mites, and seen none. My hen seems to be doing better now, she hasn't lost any more of her beard and there are small pin feathers growing in. :)
If this is helpful to anyone else with this problem, I'll tell you what I did to solve it. Usually, that hen sleeps all the way to the left on the perch, with the top hen next to her. The side of her face with the missing feathers is the side that the top hen would have had access to. I moved her on the perch, and now she sleeps there every night. Problem solved!
Hope this helps!
 
I have 2 EEs and they pick out each others beard feathers. It drives me nuts I dont know why they do it. Emily just got done growing a nice beard back and now they are all gone again.
 

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