feather loss

  1. G

    Both Roosters and Hens wont grow their feathers back.

    Alright my issue here is that my chickens seem to have lost their feathers during the molt season. Which is natural, but it's getting hot where I am at and I worry. They lost their feathers going into fall and they don't seem to be able to recover. The rooster are fatherless on their backs...
  2. Chickenlover720

    Is this normal for chickens

    does anyone known the cause of this. Is there anything I can do.
  3. C

    Chicken has been missing feathers for over 6 months now and won't regrow

    One of our older girls, Elmira, had a rough go with our rooster over 6 months ago.... she quickly became his chosen hen and she was not a fan of that AT ALL. As a result, she ended up with a treading bald spot on her back. We got rid of the rooster immediately after she started showing signs of...
  4. glloyd203

    Ongoing feather loss! Can't figure it out!

    I hope I put this in the right section; I'm hoping it's not a disease :( I am sooo worried about my girls! I made a post a couple months ago because a couple of my hens have feather loss on their backs, and one is even completely bare on her back between her wings. People were really helpful and...
  5. S

    Chicken bleeding, feathers gone

    Hi. I'm new here. I'm hoping someone can help me figure out what's happening to my hens. First, I had to many roosters (8 hens & 6 roosters). I had one hen about a month ago that had lots of blood coming from the back of her back. Around the area where the tail feathers stick up but like just...
  6. 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...
  7. michelestapley

    Hen losing feathers, no visible lice or mites

    Our 2 year old Isa Brown hen has been losing feathers for around 6 months now. These photos are of her on the roost tonight (please excuse the low quality). I can’t see any sign of mites or lice. I can see blood around some of the feathers though. Do you think one of the other hens might be...
  8. L

    Loosing lots of feathers, why?

    I am very worried about one of my hens who has been loosing lots of feathers on her back increasingly in the last few days. There are some scabby areas too and I feel like the loss is advancing . She is a motled Houdan. She is part of a 6 hen backyard flock. They pasture most of the day in a...
  9. emmylou6847

    An infected shaft of a feather?

    Not the best pictures but I was solo! Haha she is currently molting and about 2yrs of age -
  10. MissMaple

    Losing Saddle Feathers

    I just (About 1 month ago) rescued 3 adult chickens (1 RIR, 2 EE) and I will be getting chicks in April. One of my EE is missing a palm sized patch of feathers in her saddle area. I have not seen any of the other chickens pecking her there but I have seen the rir HEN mount her once. (Is this...
  11. Chippychick123

    Pasty butt and feather loss?

    i have some week old chicks which 2 have come down with some nasty pasty butt i used a warm cotton ball and olive oil to get it off and put some vaseline to try and stop it from happening again one is losing its feathers near her butt is this association with me cleaning her? None of the other...
  12. M

    Female Muscovy duck losing flight feathers in February?

    So I have one mature female Muscovy duck, one juvenile drake and three juvenile females... Like the title states, my mature female Muscovy has lost just about all of her flight feathers in the past week or so... it's early February in Northern Kentucky. None of the other ducks are experiencing...
    • Murphmichael
    • Thread
    • feather loss molting muscovy
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    • Forum: Ducks
  13. glloyd203

    Feather loss - hoping it's not something serious?

    I want to first say that I'm so sorry if this is a dumb question! I am new to chicken keeping, my babies are less than a year old, so I'm seeing everything for the first time! When I first started noticing that my girls' feathers were getting thin in places, I assumed they were molting. Some of...
  14. W

    White Leghorn...is this normal?

    Hi, have been raising backyard chickens with my family for about a year now, and I have a couple of questions. We live in west central Florida, so cold weather was not really a concern for us when we started, but we’ve had some pretty cold temperatures (for us, at least!) in the past couple of...
  15. AthenasOwl

    Chicken Saddles

    This is the first time I have ever posted to sell my Chicken Saddles on a BYC board. If I have something that is not up to BYC standards, please let me know, so I don't do it again. I have 7 different groups of saddles where I am selling 5 saddles for $50, plus shipping. This is a huge...
    • AthenasOwl
    • Thread
    • chicken apron chicken apron with wings chicken protection chicken saddles chicken saddles with wings feather loss hen apron hen protection hen saddle molting
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    • Forum: Everything Else
  16. madisonboe

    Is this moulting or something else?

    My Buff Orpington who is coming up on a year old (she’s around 10 months) has lost some feathers on the back of her neck, it looks like porcupine needles and she is normally very fluffy! She’s the only one who is looking like this. I don’t think any of my hens have gone through moulting yet so...
  17. BigSkyBird

    Missing neck feathers

    Yesterday I noticed that Cleopatra, one of my Australorp pullets, who is seven months old and the queen bee of my little flock, is missing feathers on both sides of her neck. She otherwise is healthy and active, laying large eggs regularly. None of my other chickens are missing feathers. I don’t...
  18. Girly White Silkie

    If a chicken gets stressed, can it pull all its feathers

    I heard there was a parrot stressed and pulled all its feathers and hated everyone.
  19. horsefeathers09

    Hen Pulling out Own Feathers

    2 year old hen pulls out massive feathers mostly at night. Her chest is bald and her fancy pants are almost gone. No mites, but treated anyway just in case. She's a non setter, so not preparing her nest, and not molting. She's separated from the flock because she'll pull out all their feathers...
  20. chickenman507

    HELP needed to diagnose feather loss and scabbing

    This developed over three days ago from when I started to see noticble feather loss. I just thought it was some ruffing of the feathers as we added two small hens a month ago. We have no rosters either unless one of the young birds ends up being a male but I don't think that should look like...
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