feather loss

  1. S

    Severe Feather Loss

    Our girl began losing feathers in Sept. '19, and has continued to do so, with no new feather growth. Many of her other feathers look terrible! These are all the things we've RULED OUT: -Feather plucking, by her or anyone else -Any sort of parasite, internal or external -Dietary deficiency...
  2. H

    Hen Missing Feathers--Has Stopped Laying

    Hi Everyone! I need some advice for one of my laying hens, please. Background: we have four laying hens, all at least 9 months old. We bought them in March, fully grown, from a friend who loves rare breeds. Our hens have a large coop, and free-range in a large area of our backyard every day. We...
  3. M

    Feather loss, red irritated bottom/skin...tried everything. Ugh.

    Needing some help with our hens. I assumed it was mites and or chicken lice but now I just don't know because I have feel like I've literally tried everything and nothing is working. We've had the chickens since they were chicks so for about one year. They don't seem to peck at each other. I'm...
  4. M

    My baby silkie is losing feathers and scabbing!

    Hey guys i need your help! My chick has been losing feathers for a couple weeks and has some gnarly scabs on her neck. We thought she was getting pecked so we moved her into her own separate place with the same things the other chickens had (food, water, heat, etc.). We also took her to ranch &...
  5. J

    Vent Gleet

    Could this be vent gleet ? We removed her from the flock last night because she just keeps losing feathers and has hardly any feathers near her vent and it’s very red there too. She has very poopy feathers around there too, we trimmed those feathers with scissors last night. There’s nothing...
  6. Maine_chic

    Treating Depluming mites under quarantine

    Hi everyone! I’m looking for some much needed input on treating my chickens for DEPLUMING MITES. I would like to avoid using Ivermectin because, during the COVID-19 pandemic, fresh eggs are crucial for our family. But...my chickens are really struggling with this issue, and they are my beloved...
  7. C

    Missing feathers?

    We took in another rescue duck with some skin/ wing issues. We’ve handled our share of dumped duck issues but never this. Anyone seen similar things? We initially thought severe wet feather but now we’re not sure
    • Cbutler
    • Thread
    • broken feathers feather loss raw skin tenderness wet feather
    • Replies: 1
    • Forum: Ducks
  8. A

    Mites? At a loss - please help

    Attached is a photo of my poor BLRW. This feather change and loss has happened over the last few weeks. She acts normal. She is eating, drinking and laying. We treated the whole flock for mites- she is the only one out of 10 that looks like this. I’m at a loss as to what is going on with her and...
  9. H

    Duck Losing Feathers on Chest Santa Rosa CA

    Hi we have been traveling since the beginning of February till now from Washington State from before the first Corona BS happened there and are now in Baja Mexico for a funeral but had to keep our birds with someone in Santa Rosa, CA because of the thirty day quarentine rules for birds in and...
    • HeSaves
    • Thread
    • coronavirus feather loss virus
    • Replies: 3
    • Forum: Ducks
  10. minaayindra

    Change in abdomen

    I have 2 barred rocks, who were always downy underneath on their stomachs. When I went out with them today, I noticed one had no down or feathers in a large area, it is also red. She seems to feel perfectly fine otherwise. When I finally caught her, I rubbed the area and it doesn’t feel hot...
  11. Jerry rigged farm

    Head twitch. Normal?

    Just got 4 new hens and my first real scare. Dont know whether to be concerned. She has lost alot of feathers on her butt and chest. More worried about the butt then anything. But while feeding them tonight I noticed head twitch.
  12. L

    Why has this chicken lost so many feathers?

    Strange situation I have here that I cannot find any help with on Google because all they can keep talking about is mites and my chickens have NO MITES because I look after them!!!! This frizzled Pekin bantam hen always had the perfect amount of feathers for the first year of her life - as seen...
  13. lbgreenfield

    Bare Bum in Winter

    Hi everyone! I have a 2 year old Barred Rock that is the top hen in my small flock that has lost almost all of her bum feathers (see attached photos). I thought she was molting because she's been losing a lot of fluffy feathers, but her butt and belly are the only places she's lost feathers...
  14. N

    Extreme feather loss

    Hello I’ve been cleaning out my chickens today and there was a lot of white feathers everywhere. One of my chickens has got extreme feather loss. See pics! I’m not sure if it’s from molting, feather plucking, boredom, mites or Illness. Some of my other chickens have also lost feathers around...
  15. TwentyOneChickens

    Red raw skin on belly

    Sorry about the title, not sure how to describe it. Today I opened the nesting boxes to collect eggs, and one of my hens was eating an egg in there. (Totally different problem not correlated with this.) I took the half eaten egg out of there and threw it away. When I took the rest of the eggs...
  16. Chickmom10215

    HELP 2hens injured/sick?

    I have two barred rock hens, one Cochin bantam hen, and one bantam rooster. Pictures attached. They have always pecked each other and had a minimal bald patch on their backs. But NOTHING like this. The two barred rock have significant feather loss. Back,wings,necks, legs, and chest. One was...
  17. awyman

    Feather Loss.

    As you can see from the picture she has some missing feathers on her wings, is this from drakes? Or from something else? I also don’t understand why her wings always look brown and muddy, she has a pond she can clean herself in.
    • awyman
    • Thread
    • duck feathers duck hen ducks feather loss
    • Replies: 1
    • Forum: Ducks
  18. 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...
  19. N

    My hen has been plucking her feathers out like crazy! And it's gotten bad... please help.

    I live in Wisconsin. This past June when the weather got warm, this girl started loosing the feathers above her tail and around her neck. I attributed it to my rooster (no longer in the picture), so I got her a chicken saddle so she might heal. The chicken saddle made her lose the feathers...
  20. C

    Feather Loss and No Eggs! Help!

    Hi everyone! I live in Australia and gave three backyard chickens, I'm pretty sure they're ISA browns. We've had them about two years, from a few months old. A few months ago the girls all went through molt. But one never grew them back, and has continued losing feathers on her chest, neck...
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