broken feathers

Hey everyone, Hoping for some assessment and/or advice on a skin/feather issue with one of my 1.5 year-old hens. At the base of her tail, she has some very irritated looking skin at the center of a medium-large "bald spot" with what looks like broken feathers. At first, I though tthere...

Hello, I have this hen who is a little over a year old that is loosing all of her feathers. I had a feather plucking problem in my flock but the two perpetrators have been dealt with since mid-April (put chicken blinders on them) and there are no other bullies. However, this one hen kept slowly...

Hey yall so I noticed yesterday my 7-8 month old light brahma was limping pretty bad. I have a duck currently dealing with bumblefoot so I immediately inspected her foot.....and found nothing other than a broken off feather on her toe. It really doesn't look that bad, but I have no idea what...

Hello all. I have a Sex Link that has a bunch of feathers on the front of the neck/breast that were broken off. I put in a new gate she was sticking her head through a lot and I believe that was the original cause. I fixed the gate and she can't do it anymore and the problem seems to have...

Images attached. Have a hen who today is showing a slight sag / holding it low and out with one of her wings. She is also experiencing some molting. We have sprinkled the coop and run with diatomaceous incase had any kites that are visiting at night. We do not see any on hens. She is moving...

I have a healthy, energetic, active Ancona duck, about 9 months old. He grew out his lovely flush of adult tail feathers around July 2020 (pic 1); however, they quickly started breaking about halfway up the shaft (pic 2). Some of them break much closer to the bottom of the shaft. Since then...

I have a 4 yr old hen that started having broken feathers. It seems to be getting worse every few days, but video doesn't show any other animals and she is fenced in with 3 other hens. She doesn't have mites or anything, and the other hens look just fine. What is this from? Thank you in advance 🙏

We took in another rescue duck with some skin/ wing issues. We’ve handled our share of dumped duck issues but never this. Anyone seen similar things? We initially thought severe wet feather but now we’re not sure

Hi there all, I am having quite the triage day on this rainy Halloween! I went out earlier and my white Cochin had a broken feather on her foot. I took her in, cleaned it with water and put cornstarch on it. It seems to have stopped the bleeding. I had not checked best boxes because I was busy...

My 1.5 yo Sizzle, Maddie, is smaller than any of my other Silkies. She and her sister joined the flock last year and there were no issues until this spring when they were molting. That’s when we noticed that Maddie was almost naked and not from molting! The rest of the flock has almost denuded...

Today I noticed that one of my pullets (3.5 months old) has pieces missing from her tail feathers (picture included). I also found 4 large, healthy looking tail feathers lying in her coop. Her tail is noticeably less full than those of my other 3 pullets. The rest of her feathers look fine. I...

So today was the first day that I left the door to my outside brooder open enough for my 25 chicks to mingle with my flock. I thought I had secured the door (it’s an xl wire dog cage with heat lamps in it, covered securely by a tarp) well enough that the bigger ladies and Roos couldn’t get in...

3 yo speckled sussex. been molting, has lots of pin feathers. today saw she had broken and missing feathers on tail, all around and under tail is bloody, she has a few patches on her body that looks irritated and scabby as well. She isn't eating, crop is soft. I have isolated her and sprayed...

My rescue Muscovy drake which is about a year old has recently become super ugly. Just honest here. His feathers went black to brown, and they’re falling off at an insane rate. He seems fine, he drinks and eats and is aggressive as usual. His bottom feathers are still nice and black. He has a...

For the last two weeks, I've noticed that our most submissive hen, Clementine, was starting to look fluffy like she was losing her feathers on the end of her back, just in front of her tail. We got a chance to look underneath the fluff, and discovered some sore spots (see pics) and definitely a...