I had the same problem. I only had 4 hens and 3 had the bare butts. I finally traded the feathered one for a new hen and low and behold- the other girls have already started growing feathers back. You may have a bully like I did. You should try and catch her if you can at it but I never...
Thank you. Yes she was the only one with feathers on her hiney. But since I was knew to this world I just wasn't sure and I hated to get rid of her but no-one offered advice how to deal or just didn't know how to deal with a hen like this so she had to go. But those four girls had been...
Well didn't have the response I wanted from this site. But wanted to let the routhfamilyfarm know I traded the girl I thought was the culprit and sure enough, the other girls are already growing their feathers back. So my suspicions were on que.
I purchased 3 black copper marans yesterday. A friend picked them up. I didn't get to see them before she picked them up, dumb I know. One of the hens looks to be in molt, that is something normal I guess, one looked normal and the other one, which I am concerned about, she had dried poo...
I am currently enlarging my pen to get more hens. I only have 4 girls and 3 of them have the bare butts. I highly suspect that the one with all her feathers is the bully. I was told to check for mites but wouldn't all of them be bare if that were true?
They have a good sized covered run with a roost that they have always got on and it goes all the across one end of the run. When I first got the girls I would not let them
Out of the pen because we have loose dogs and I didn't know how they would react and another reason the few times I had let...
There was a roost inside my coop which is very small. The hens usually only go inside to lay. They have a covered run that they stay in. They have been there for a little over a year and have never noticed the roost inside the coop until recently. All of a sudden it was like a child with a...
I do not know if the feathers are being picked or what but I suspect they are. I only have 4 hens and 3 out of the 4 have bare butts. I suspect the one hen is the one picking the others because she is the boss in the coop. I let them out for several hours every evening. If it were mites...