feather damage

  1. SunnyFLChick

    Silkie feather damage - depluming mites? - need guidance

    Hello BYC! Need some guidance on how to help my girls. I have some silkie hens who had a molt in the fall...but their feathers never really recovered. Now it's spring and everyone is trying to go broody. I do have a roo in with them and at first I thought he was being too aggressive. I did...
  2. D

    Any ideas to help with feather plucking?

    I have a single hen with a bald spot on her lower throat/upper chest area. It's not bloody or anything, but the rest of the ladies won't let it regrow. Is there a chicken bib? A bandana? Something to cover up the spot long enough for the feathers to grow past "pick at this" range. Thanks y'all!
  3. MapleBlondieFarm

    Missing Feathers in Frigid Weather

    One of my hens has lost a chunk of feathers on her back thanks to our rooster. The rooster is now out of the picture, but there’s a 2-3’ circle of fully exposed skin on her back and it is FRIGID here in the northeast. -10° this morning. Her back is red, understandably, and is most definitely...
  4. M

    Losing feathers, head not as bright

    One of three chickens seems to have lost some color and feathers near her head. Is this normal chicken pecking-order, or is she getting sick? Location: Eastern Nebraska Temps down to 30F some nights. Coop is fairly wind protected, but not insulated. Light until ~4 hours after sunset.
  5. L

    Bare skin and poor feather growth

    Hello all! I recently inherited two Rhode Island Red hens (about 2 or 3 years old) as my Pop passed away a month ago. Any chickens that my Pop kept always ended up losing most of their feathers - poor things!! No one is sure why and being a silly old man he didn't seem to think much of it. I...
  6. M

    Hen pulling out her own feathers??!

    My chicken Blanche is a 2 year old GLW. I have been noticing in the past few days she's peen PULLING OUT HER OWN FEATHERS. I even saw her eat a few, I'm not sure it was intentional or not. One of her shoulders has a big bald spot. She is focusing on her shoulders and the side of her body. She's...
  7. 6

    How Come No One Will Help?

    This has puzzled me for 10 months…Literally. In fall 2020, my hens molted. However, one of my hens didn’t grow any feathers back on her neck and shoulder area. I saw some lice and treated with DE and Manna Pro Lice Spray. She never grew those feathers back!!! Then another hen had the exact...
  8. M

    Help! Feather mites??

    Hello everyone, My girlfriend and I have a small flock up in the mountains of Colorado and have a hen with a very interesting problem. We added two laced Wyandotte’s to our flock last year and they’ve been good producers, but not super friendly towards us (which is fine). When they first came...
  9. A

    Hens moulting or bullied?

    Hi, I am in South Africa and we are going through the last few weeks of winter. Several of my hens look awful. The others look beautiful and healthy. I am not sure if they are moulting or being bullied by our roosters when they try to mate. The thing that concerns me is that their wing feathers...
  10. 5

    PLEASE HELP…..Feather Loss = Disease!?!

    Hi! In Fall 2020, one of my hens molted early, in November/December 2020 two of other my hens began to molt, one of the two had a hard molt. When winter ended, my hen that hard molted fully grew her feathers back, but my other hen didn’t. Two more of my hens have this odd feather loss that...
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  11. 5

    Missing Feathers Mystery

    Hello! So, November 2020 through January 2021, my chickens were molting. Only one of my hens had a hard molt, another lost feathers around her neck, while the others barely molted. The hen who had a hard molt grew her feathers back 2-3 months ago, while my featherless necked hen didn't. I...
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  12. I

    Feathers bitten off at half shaft

    3 of my 4 hens have this damage on tail feathers. I assumed this happened because for 2 days at sub zero temps I kept them locked up in the coop which led to boredom and pecking. However I wonder if this kind of damage is unusual- it is so symmetrical. Any thoughts?
  13. S

    I have this chicken whose wings are severely damaged and sometimes can be bloody, i have never seen any mites on her.

  14. Spellbound4u

    Weird feathers???

    I dont know how else to put it. Lol one of my lavender orpingtons feathers aren't smooth and flat like the rest of them. She doesn't get picked on that i see and she seems perfectly healthy and happy. Any ideas?? She is about 14 weeks old. A picture for reference...
  15. X

    Bare backed and sun burned

    Hello ! I have chickens that am assuming have been over mounted by rooster. They have little to no feathers left on their backs. I bought them saddles to protect their backs and hopefully allow feathers to grow back .. accept it seems to have made it worse, now the feathers will not grow back...
  16. slashroot

    Whats the reason for feather loss

    Hi! I'm very new to quail, trying to figure out what is going on with them. They are eating, drinking and running around like the rest. What I have noticed is red skin and feather loss. In the beginning they were fine, then slowly starting to get worse. I had the following thoughts: 1. First...
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  17. J

    Is she getting pecked to death?

    We had one RIR hybrid left (Girl) and recently introduced 3 golden laced Wyandotte into our “flock” I watched Girl with them at first and she pecked them and took charge. Now she has stopped laying and looks like the below. Are those three new ones pecking her? If so, what do I do?!?!
  18. filmcmahon

    diy anti-feather pecking spray/balm?

    hello! my girls have been very sassy with each other lately and have been pecking at the smallest 2 out of 6 hens. does anyone have a successful recipe for anti-pecking spray or cream, or know of a brand that makes, it available in Ontario? the only one i seem to find is from the UK:rant help!!!!
  19. Maine_chic

    29 wk old EE hen with repeated broken blood feathers—Cause?!

    Once again, I turn to the BYC community for much needed help!! My EE hen has a large area surrounding her vent that is bare. Last week she had a broken feather and I stopped the bleeding with cornstarch, got her cleaned up and used Blue Kote. She’s partridge colored and the blue kote did a great...
  20. scalci

    Help! Skin peeling on entire body and weird noises!!

    Hi, My girls have been struggling with scaly leg mites and lice for a few months now. I had two 7+ y/o hens die a few months ago and now I have two 3 y/o and a 8.5 y/o. One of the 3 y/o’s has had a bare inflamed butt for about a year now but other than that has been fine. I have treated the...
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