blood feathers

  1. Lavender and CJ

    Help! Feather Picking and Breaking Blood Feathers!

    As we've quickly found out with chickens, when it rains, it pours. Our chickens have been pecking at each other's back/parson's nose area for the past few weeks and we need advice! Our Setup: Our hens are 6-7 months old. They are all standard-size birds. They were on layer crumbles at 18%...
  2. E

    Duck missing feathers and blood feathers look rough?

    Hi I'm a newer duck owner, we had gotten two ducklings originally about two or three months ago then decided to get three more ducklings about a month ago. One of the newer ducklings is missing his feathers on his wings and his blood feathers look beat up after I got home from work today. Theyre...
  3. Nadilli

    PLEASE HELP Feathers being pulled + bumble foot

    This little girl, named Willow (Willow Ptarmigan) is having some issues, apx 9-10 weeks old . I recently got her from a local breeder, and she’s had issues from day 1, with her own clutch mates! My older chickens don’t bother her at all but her clutch mates constantly pick at her tail feathers...
  4. Sassy-ChikN Mom

    Bloody feathers on Polish pullet

    Hi all! while doing my weekly cleaning of my brooder, I noticed one of my 4-5 week old crested polish has a little dried blood on her head feathers. Is this normal? Her sister is fine. They are in a brooder with 3 silkie chicks, 2 Russian Orloff chicks and 2 Black Langshan chicks. All are about...
  5. M

    Blood Feather Removal?

    My rooster has a few broken blood feather on his tail, I decided to pull them out like suggested. But because there's not many videos on how to pluck them for a chicken. I am worried I didn't do it correctly? There is still a white tube (I assume feather follicle) at the base where I pulled one...
  6. J

    4 six week old ducks attacking eachother

    Hello! Im very new to taking care of ducks, we're not even sure of the genders yet. We just started moving the ducks outside in their coop every once in a while but other than that we've had them in our room with us as it's been cold and rainy lately. Last night we noticed that one of the ducks...
  7. M

    Sick Pekin Duck

    I have a female pekin for about two months. This morning she was not walking right so i began giving her niacin in food and water right away. she also had two broken blood feathers which i pulled out and cleaned up for her most likely from my male pekin trying to mate? i’m not sure. but she...
  8. Scareab

    Blood feather?

    Hello! I’ve been trying to find what this is and what to do for my salmon faverolle chicken’s bleeding foot and the closest I can come to is a blood feather. But I’m still not sure what to do. I saw it clot a bit earlier in the day but she seemed to reopen it. She’s behaving normally and doesn’t...
  9. filmcmahon

    random blood on neck and head of chicken!

    so today my six chickens were free ranging in the yard for about two and a half hours under my supervision from the kitchen that looks on out to the yard. they had a typical free range, mostly digging under a pine tree and the shrubs. the abnormal thing is, when i went to put them in their run...
  10. sierraforest

    Continuously Breaking Feathers

    Our two Anconas, both females, are bonded and seem loving in every way except when one (Connie) yanks on the right wing feathers of the other (Julie) when they're in their pond. Often, Connie breaks Julie's feathers and makes her bleed—when Connie yanks, she does so perpendicular to Julie's...
    • sierraforest
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    • blood feathers broken feather shafts
    • Replies: 8
    • Forum: Ducks
  11. A

    Bullying Ducks

    Hello Everyone! Just some background information. I have 4 ducks all just over 15 weeks old. 1 female Khaki, 1 female Pekin, 1 male Khaki and last but not least 1 male Runner. My female pekin came to me as a day old duckling-blind, she will on/off have a bum leg (but able to walk) and has an...
    • ashley_kay
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    • blood feathers bullied bird ducks
    • Replies: 8
    • Forum: Ducks
  12. DC Flock

    1 year old rooster has red dots on one leg and an inflamed feather sheath on same leg

    Hello, this is my first post on Backyard chickens!! I have been an avid reader of the site since I started my flock 2 years ago. I love the site, the knowledge available from so many experienced chicken owners is incredible. God bless and thank you to all that help people like me (not a...
  13. Kaeny

    Rooster keeps losing wing feathers and is shaking

    I have a rooster that I bought from the fleamarket about a month ago. He finally is getting along great with the hen that I have but since a few days ago I see that his wing looks really bad and now it seems that he’s losing more feathers on his body right under the wing. Also I noticed that he...
  14. sassfras

    Bloody pin feathers

    One of my Girls (an easter egger) is having a horrible time with her pin feathers. Every day I seem to see fresh blood coming from a new one, I don’t see any of the other girls picking on her any extra, so I’m concerned that she has poor quality feathers, or that she’s picking herself. I know...
  15. WeTheWeys

    Duck broken blood feather!!!

    Do i need to pluck this if the bleeding isnt bad?!
  16. WeTheWeys

    Wet feather and blood feather

    Hi hi Is this wet feather? The ducks take a while to dry after but i have a space heater blowing warm air. I read if this happens to wash them with Dawn so they can restart the preening process. Thoughts? Also i assume this is a blood feather. Are they normal and okay as long as it doesnt...
    • WeTheWeys
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    • blood feathers bumble foot eyes red eyes wet feather wetfeather
    • Replies: 22
    • Forum: Ducks
  17. LittleBird123

    OEGB rooster tail feathers broken, ripped off, and bleeding.

    My old English game bantam rooster has been trying to grow the feathers back on his tail, I suspect that they fell out because he was starting to molt. New feathers started coming in, but today when I saw him he only had a few bloody stumps left of the new feathers. I saw one of the hens pecking...
  18. C

    Limping feather foot chick

    Hello! One of our Mille Fleur d’Duccle bantam chicks has always had a bit of a deformed wing (the bottom half of the flight feathers on her left wing are rotated a bit)- earning her the name of Faceplant when we picked her up from a farm:) She is 10 weeks old and got around quite well until...
    • chickenyoga
    • Thread
    • blood feathers bumble foot chick deformations feather foot limp limping mille fleur d'uccle wing
    • Replies: 2
    • Forum: Raising Baby Chicks
  19. S

    Help! One of my runners has been bullied by a baby.

    When I went to check on my ducks this morning I noticed one of my runners has most of her feathers chewed off her right wing and a baby Anconas bill was covered in blood so I’m sure it was them. By the time I got out there the blood has clotted but there’s still stubs in her wing. I know you’re...
    • Shelbylynn96
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    • blood feathers broken ducks help asap
    • Replies: 1
    • Forum: Ducks
  20. Cricketnd

    Question about re-integrating polish hen to flick after pecking

    We got 6 day-old chicks in January-one each of the following: ameracauna, buff Orpington, barred rock, silkie, Rhode Island Red, and a Polish. After a few weeks in the brooder we noticed that the Polish was being pecked on the head. She had a small sore and was missing feathers. We isolated her...
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