I hatched some chicks and one is the son of my hen, Emerald, but he has extremely strange textured feathers. Is there anything I can do about this that won’t stress him out? His name is Thumper and he is 1-2 weeks old
I have a 1 year old Leghorn x Delaware hen and she is one of my best layers. She rarely skipped and laid huge brown eggs. However, randomly she stopped. She had 1 small patch of feathers missing on each of her shoulder (both the same size, around the size of a penny) where meat was showing. she...
Hey, I have a 6 week old Muscovy duckling, I’ve had him since he was around 3 weeks old, I’ve held him, he follows me around, eats an drinks very well, but one thing I’m not sure of is when I go to pick him up like I have been for the last 3 weeks, he’s all of a sudden walking/running away or...
I left my ducks in their run for the day, and when I returned I found my female pekin (about 15 weeks old) was missing some feathers on the back of her neck (I have attached some photos below), I also have an Indian runner duck who I believe is a drake by his quack, who is only 11 weeks old. I...
We got six pullets in April of last year and noticed over the last few days that one of them has been losing a lot of her feathers. I know that she’s too young to be molting and there seems to be too many feathers missing for it to be bullying. Also, the majority of feathers she’s losing are...
recently one of my chickens has been losing feathers rapidly. my first thought was that it was being picked on since it was the only chicken in my flock that appeared this way. at first i didn't really notice, and hadn't really noticed any bullying but it's starting to become an issue. one of my...