I know the conversation about feather plucking has been discussed over and over, but I am dumb founded still and want to know if anyone has experienced the same.
I have 6 hens and 2 Pekins ducks. One of my golden comets is going bald on her lower half. It started that she just looked scruffy...
We are still new to this. We hated the lack of space in the tiny kit coop so we pushed up the barn renovation project. Thoughts? My husband has moved the nesting boxes and roosts about 6 times.
So it might have been a mistake, but due to lack of space in our initial brooder for our 6 chicks and two Pekins, we put our coop/run together in the basement, put cardboard around the run and adding heating lamps. They are all approximately 5 weeks old and have been in the run almost 3 weeks...
we are probably just paranoid. But is there something wrong with our chick? My husband checked on them and they were fine. I got home an hour later and the chick seemed to have some raw spots under the wing and a brown spot on the chest. She appeared wet so I don’t know if she was picking or...