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  1. M

    Mites or pecking at each other?

    Help! Just noticed this today and I keep a pretty good eye on my chickens. Does this look like mites/lice or like someone was pecking at her? She’s acting completely normal, eating and drinking well, and not itching/picking at all. One other chicken as a similar but less severe look. Some have...
  2. TrevillyanFamilyFarm

    Hen Saddles

    Hello, I make hen saddles to protect the ladies from pecking and rough roosters. Made of machine washable fabric and designed with a ruffle to keep the hen saddle in place. $12.00 each The above picture is after a week and a half. Unlike other hen saddles these are made of durable duck...
  3. G

    How to Stop Self Pecking

    I have a salmon faverolle who had her beard picked at all winter by the rest of the chickens when food froze to her beard. Now she stands in front of the other hens waiting for the feathers on her neck and chest to be pecked, and if they don’t peck them then she does it herself. How can I stop...
  4. B

    Cuckoo Maran not growing feathers back

    Hi I bought two cuckoo maran bantam pullets in mid February. When I got there the seller had lost my order and presumably sold all the good stock because he only had one with a completely bald bottom and one with only three tail feathers left. The seller told me they would grow back in a...
  5. zed07

    HELP! Lethargic chicken collapsed :(

    Hello! Please help~ One of our hens out of three has collapsed. This is the second time after yesterday, but she got up and acted normally after that, however this time she couldn’t manage to get herself up. She had been acting poorly a week and a half ago, she wouldn’t move much and her comb...
  6. Nadilli

    PLEASE HELP Feathers being pulled + bumble foot

    This little girl, named Willow (Willow Ptarmigan) is having some issues, apx 9-10 weeks old . I recently got her from a local breeder, and she’s had issues from day 1, with her own clutch mates! My older chickens don’t bother her at all but her clutch mates constantly pick at her tail feathers...
  7. SophiaLinn

    Chicken has bald back. Not mites or molting.

    Background: I have a hen who is definitely on the bottom of the pecking order, ever since she was introduced with 2 others a year ago (we followed all the rules of integrating chickens). She previously had a pecking wound on her head that I was able to heal. She is still picked on regularly and...
  8. mandersrenee8503

    Hen Pecking at Brahma’s Feet

    Hello, my head hen (a Wyandotte) has suddenly started pecking at one of my Brahma’s feet where she has feathers. I have a mixed flock of 7 total, and 3 of them have foot feathers. Only my dark Brahma is getting pecked and only by one hen. I think what happened is my Dark Brahma broke a foot...
  9. L

    Not sure who the bully is - can it be the pecked hen herself?

    Hi. I've got 10 hens that all appear to get on without any visible (as in I don't see any scrapping, pecking or bullying) signs of upset. However, one hen has always been pecked raw, with another partially so. I have never seen or heard them squabbling and I am out in the garden a lot, around...
  10. MallardMama19

    Feather loss

    Hey guys! It’s been awhile, but I have a question… I apologize if it’s been asked before…. I have a mixed flock of 2 buff Orpingtons, 2 Easter eggers, and 2 reds, all hens. My one Easter egged, Willow, has feather loss. Theee are no woulds, just looks like she has been plucked. I have 2 big runs...
  11. Alex998

    Chicken Trying to Escape

    Hello! New chicken owner here, and I have 17 chickens (1 Rooster 16 Hens). One of them is pretty old and is very small, and the other hens (never the rooster) will peck her head and pick on her. There is no visible damage on her head, and no missing feathers. However, whenever I open the egg...
  12. K

    Baby chick has a prolapse or extended vent?

    Hi there, I have a 4-week old barred rock chick (along with 24 other chicks) and they have all been thriving until yesterday I heard this baby chick screaming for help and all her siblings were attacking her vent. I can't tell if it's a prolapse or just swollen or what the issue is? I've...
  13. 5

    🐓🐓Flock Integration Advice

    Hello chicken enthusiasts! Back in April, I was only able to get two barred rock (due to some specific circumstances). I had them in the run for a few weeks, so that they would know that it was their home and such. My older flock, free ranges and would come and go from the run as they would...
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  14. C

    Little rooster pecking me, how to make it stop pecking.

    So basically i have a very small rooster about a month i think. And he pecks me. He pecks my fingers my toes my skin, anything related to me. First he only did it when he was hungry and wanted food, now he does it all the time. And since hes getting bigger his pecking hurts a lot more now. Is...
  15. chickenGrant

    Pecking each other has gotten worse.

    Hi there. I have three chickens, one golden laced Wyandotte one silver laced Wyandotte and one cinnamon queen. The cinnamon queen seems to be the lead hen and likes to pick on the others. But the golden laced Wyandotte is in second and she picks on the silver laced Wyandotte. Both the...
  16. Mycrazypets

    My Gosling is Ripping Chicks Feathers Out

    I have 2 guard embden goslings and 14 chicks. Recently one of the goslings has gone to each of the chicks and begins pulling and biting their wing like food. The chicks sqauk in pain but it doesn’t stop until it rips out feathers. I need solutions! I have tried distracting them with some spinach...
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    • Forum: Geese
  17. H

    My chicken is in the process of recovering from heat exhaustion and now has some weird behavioral patterns. Help?!

    We had a pretty big heat wave where I live, temperatures well over 110, and my chicken yard was unprepared. My chickens had access to water and shade but just about nothing else to beat the heat (they have a mister, a pool, and a fan now lol). Anyway, one of my chickens was found lying on the...
  18. Disintegration

    Chicks Grabbing/Pecking at Eachother?

    I was letting three of my baby chicks wander on my floor together for a few minutes out of their brooder, and really suddenly they started making a bunch of noise and pecking very sparratically. When I took a close look, they were pecking and grabbing at eachothers toes, to the point where one...
  19. khloee

    How do I get my silkie to regrow her head feathers?

    My silkie Gertrude had this beautiful poof on top her head. She looked magnificent. That is till the other started bullying her really bad. Her head feathers were plucked off. Then they never regrew. It’s almost like it just callused over? It’s been this why for a few months and still nothing...
  20. C

    Older hens killed pullets

    we had 4 pullets about 8 weeks. They’ve all been integrated for a few weeks. Things were going well. Not much bullying just the odd peck here or there. Yesterday we found two pullets scalped. One dead and one almost dead. I can’t say it was 100% the older hens but that’s what I’m guessing. When...
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