feather eating

  1. Lidy

    Eating Eggs and feathers

    I feed my Hens and Roos vegetables: Pea, corn, celery, radicchio, spring lettuce, sardines or sometimes tuna, rice, meal worms, beetles seeds, Kale, coleslaw mix with broccoli and carrots, oats, and collard greens in a big salad form in the morning. I give maybe 2 cups of salad mixed with the...
  2. E

    How long does it take for feathers to regrow?

    Hello! I have got a French Copper Black Marans who is about a year old now and was the victim of some trauma from change and bullying, she looks awful and I’m wondering how long it will take for her feathers to regrow and for her to look beautiful again? For context (I’ll try to keep it brief)...
  3. POD

    Feather Eating Troubles

    I’m looking for advice on what I can do for my >6 month old hen Brontë, who has returned to her former habit of plucking and eating the feathers of her five other flock mates. If you can share any stories or advice you have on curing a chicken of feather eating, please leave a comment. I’m...
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  4. chickenGrant

    Pecking out feathers STILL! HELP!

    Hey everyone, I am going to apologize in advance for how long and confusing this may be. Alright here we go… By the way these Chickens are just over one year old. So last winter (winter of 2020) is when it all started, I noticed a fair amount of feathers were missing on two out of the three...
  5. D

    feathers not growing since Feb

    My poor hens seem to be eating their feathers and then in the search for protein to grow them back eat more feathers and thus created a loop. They began losing feathers in February because of my rooster so we got rid of him but haven’t regrown any feathers and now they are eating each other and...
  6. 2

    Feather pulling

    Morning :) I’ve noticed recently that one of my Easter Eggers and red star have started pulling and eating feathers from one of my polish, and my Roo. It’s a new behavior within maybe the last few weeks or so. I don’t really see how they are bored, they have things to do, they have a nice run...
  7. O

    Semi-bald chickens, no longer pecking each other

    12 months ago we bought chickens for the first time: five hens, no rooster. For the first five months they were out in the garden in a very spacious enclosure, then in winter we moved them into part of our vegetable garden to protect our lawn. After a few months here we noticed they were pecking...
  8. B

    Help regarding feather eating?

    We have just had our hens for around 4 months, 5 lohman browns that are all around 1 to 1,5 years old. But after just a couple of weeks of having them, we noticed one of our hens eating the feathers of the others, especially during dust bathing. This continued and occured more and more often. We...
  9. E

    Two month old pullets eating their feathers!

    There is no plucking. They are going through their first molt right now and they are just eating them off the ground when they fall out. I am feeding Manna Pro chick starter feed and they eat mealworms, waxworms, and blueberries as treats. They don’t get them every day. They also have access to...
  10. My Pretty Pekins

    Peckers!!

    We got three new POL hens two days ago, and they've all been vaccinated, wormed etc. There are three of them, and one is continually pecking feathers from the other hens' vent area. I know that I ought to do something about this, and I wasn't sure what. There are a few things I think it could...
  11. flock mommasan

    Feather eating and medicated feed

    Just introduced 3 new pullets (~10 weeks old) to the flock of 5 (1.5 year olds) this week. It's going reasonably well except I see a few of the older gals are eating the young ones' medicated feed. Is that okay? Also, I saw my main egg layer, Big Mama, eat one of the smaller chickens' discarded...
  12. Nutmeg15

    Chicken Eating Feathers — Plucking Chickens Bare

    Pumpkin, my Buff Orpington, has started picking out and eating the feathers of my two Dark Brahmas. I only noticed this behavior actively about a week ago—she had always shown some interest in pecking at their foot feathers, but I had never seen her actually pulling out feathers and eating them...
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