Update now, in case anyone is interested, now that we’re a few more days out. Plucking started up with a different girl, and it was feathers from my buff that had much better growth than the other! Gah! The nerve. And it was COLD that morning so a couple pin feathers bleeding lead to a...
So our main problem child has not been acting up since I have really focused on bringing in some varying enrichment, and upping their protein, etc. No more feather loss on any chickens, either.
The interesting thing with all of this is that the 2 buffs that were having their feathers plucked...
Help! And please be kind.
First time chicken mama here (first chickies came home last March).
I recently discovered that my 2 buffs were getting the downy feathers from their fluffy bums pecked by a couple bored menaces in our tiny flock of 6. It was definitely going on for longer than I...
