plucked feathers

  1. Quail_

    How to help feathers regrow

    Two of my buff orpingtons backs, sides, and head had been basically plucked clean almost and I'm trying to encourage new feather growth. I had gotten a mating saddle (idk if those are consaverial but they are the only way I've seen that protect birds backs) for them and I haven't seen any new...
  2. thoeffel1994

    Muscovy ducks plucking each other's wings?

    I just noticed an issue with my young Muscovies plucking each other's wings. They'll reach out and grab another birds wing and yank the feathers out in the process. A few were bleeding. 😬. What should I do about this and why are they doing this. I've never had this issue before?
  3. Greystone farm

    Feather plucking—how to treat?

    My little mallard duck, Rowan, flew over the fence divider between my two flocks today 😬 Her flock loves her, but my second flock are three times as big and don’t like her at all. I found her tonight on their side of the run with the feathers on the back of her little neck all plucked and raw...
  4. N

    Chicken bullying

    Hello- I have 9 laying hens about a year old.. docile different breeds. Today I noticed my favorolle head to be more bald and what looks like plucked. Also, her throat is losing feathers and looks to be plucked. Is this bullying.. or a disease? Please if someone knows what this is and how to...
  5. Gypsi

    hen plucking her own feathers out

    This is not my first go round, I think I had a different hen doing it last year. This one got so bald I put her in a big dog crate in the old birds pen, where no one can peck her, and I'll be darned if she didn't clear her back of new feather growth this morning. Hopefully at least her head...
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