Can anyone advise what’s going on here?
I thought my flock had depluming mites about a month or so ago because a bunch of down feathers were missing by their vents and they were pecked bad above all their tail feathers. I treated with Elector PSP inside and then used a blow dryer to dry them...
I didn’t realize you could leave them on that long!
The problem I have, is because a few of them are missing tail feathers, all of them are pecking the areas.
The feathers are taking forever to grow back!
Is it okay to use a hen saddle during fall/winter months? Live in Washington state and have daily temps in the 30-40’s and down to 30’s at night currently.
I have a few hens that are missing tail feathers from a habitual pecker, and bought some light fabric material ones off Etsy that have the...
I have a flock of 7 hens that we got in the spring and we’ve been having issues with one of them pecking others just above their tail feathers. It’s been an ongoing issue that I thought our rooster was doing. Turns out, it wasn’t him because we no longer have him. I have 5 girls all missing a...
Hens go broody when you don’t want them to… and won’t go broody when you do.