feather damage

  1. TheCrazyBirdGuy

    Striations / striping of goose feathers

    I feel like sometime a while back I read somewhere on this forum about striations on bird feathers possibly being health indicators. A goose i care for, Flip-Flop, (mix Embden and Chinese) started getting these on a few of his feathers. It could just be damage from interacting with the other...
  2. Canadian Chickens

    Bully Central

    Hello, Very new to the chicken world. We started with 9 Rhode Island Reds. Unfortunately, lost one to a hawk in the spring. Now 8 remain. There must be bullying in our coop, but cannot find the culprits! Some look pretty rough with missing feathers and most have their tails snipped short. We...
    • Canadian Chickens
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    • broken femur bullies copper marans easter egger feather damage feather loss newbie ontario backyard chickens rhode island red
    • Replies: 17
    • Forum: Managing Your Flock
  3. wrighthollya

    Broken feathers on sholders

    I have had both (2) of my hens for a little over a year (from babies). I have one rooster with them. I have not had any issues until lately with broken feathers on both shoulders on both hens in the same place. I thought maybe it was the Roos spurs doing it but they are less than a 1/2 inch...
  4. joannmartin

    HELP! Duck feathers look terrible!

    I am totally stumped trying to solve my ducks feather issues. I initially thought it was a wet feather and did a Dawn soap bath....checked her oil gland and it looked fine. Took her to the vet and they didn't see any mites. Kepted her in all winter because I didn't think she would be able to...
    • joannmartin
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    • feather condition feather damage feather issues
    • Replies: 7
    • Forum: Ducks
  5. Sundogz

    2yr old tom's beard cut short? Isolated feather damage as well

    Is it mites? For the past couple weeks my tom has been exhibiting tattered feathers on the left side of his breast and behind his neck (exclusively the left side) and I never thought much of it as I see certain hens pulling on his feathers every once in a while. Today, however, I was looking...
  6. JuneJ58732

    Is this a feather cyst or something else?

    Hello, this is my first time posting. One of my hens has this strange skin ball that is attached to her neck, I noticed it a few weeks ago. I've attached pictures but I couldn't really get up close or get many angles. It's red, like her skin, and yes she is missing some feathers on her neck...
  7. LemonyCatapult

    Seemingly healthy pullet but showing strange symptoms

    I have a 6 month old pullet with a strange backstory. So she hatched from my two Easter Eggers and was always quite small for her age. When she was 3.5 months old, her feet got severe frost bite and she lost all her toes. She has lived in our house since but has been showing weird symptoms since...
  8. E

    egg residue on feathers

    Our orpington somehow broke an egg under her, and the egg residue is now all over her belly feathers. I tried to clean it with a washcloth and water, but it is just not coming off, and the feathers are all gluey and gunky. I think some of the feathers may have fallen out already, and the skin...
  9. Angelita

    Black mold/mildew on tail feathers

    Hi, so I’m a little concerned about my girl, she’s a 5 month old buff Orpington and I’ve noticed she’s had little black mold-looking specs on a few of her tail feathers. She’s an indoor chicken and I clean her coop daily so it’s always clean and dry. I use cedar wood shavings now that she’s...
  10. ZorotheDuck

    severely damaged feathers from gander fight

    Hi everyone, We have a American Buff gander who got beat up by our Toulouse-Sebastapol gander. We found our Buff two mornings ago on the other side of their night-time partition with the ducks and our Toulouse-African goose and the Toulouse-Sebastapol gander. He was in the corner, looking like...
    • ZorotheDuck
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    • feather damage fighting ganders geese wing injury
    • Replies: 2
    • Forum: Geese
  11. Wee Timmy

    Muscovy molting patterns.

    Recently my Muscovy drake picked a fight with the gander and ended up losing ALL of his primary feathers on the left wing and about half of them on the right wing. The ducks fly a lot around the property and I feel pretty bad for him now that he’s flightless. He can’t get on the roost either. It...
    • Wee Timmy
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    • feather damage muscovy
    • Replies: 2
    • Forum: Ducks
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