red skin

Good morning! My chicken has started plucking the feathers from under her breast and legs. I’ve checked for mites and lice and thankfully that isn’t the problem. I read that it could mean she is becoming broody but doesn’t show any of the characteristics of being broody other then plucking...

Hi everyone! So I’ve had my flock for 5 years. The last week my rooster Stevie had a redness on his legs and belly I thought/think he was moulting he baths everyday. I just don’t want to make sure it’s not a skin irritation. No one else has it as dr as I can see.

Hello, I’m a first time chicken mom. I know that chickens go through a molting phase, but how long does it take for the feathers to grow back. These ladies still have a feathers missing from the neck and butts. I also noticed the neck and butt one of them is turning red. A few weeks ago I found...

*** Barred Rock, 10 months old, Free Range This was my first year ever having chickens, and I made a mistake back in the summer with one of my hens.. her name is Sweet Pea. The same day I wanted to catch her and trim her bum (because there was a lot of feces globbed into her feathers) was...

Asking on behalf of my sister. She rescued some ex laying birds about 6 months ago now. She’s has on going problems with one bird in particular. She’s completely bald on her bum and looks red raw. All the other have feathered up and are well. She’s been purple spraying to prevent pecking, not...

A few days ago I noticed my amerucana rooster has no feathers on one leg and has lost quite a few tail feathers. Also his skin is very red in those places without feathers. His leg appears to possible be trying to grow feathers back. He is in a pen/coop with 5 hens and they are all perfectly...

I have a sixlink chicken that is 2.5 years old. She has no feathers on her belly or vent. She does eat but is kind of listless. She does not have any fleas or other pests. She’s not broody at all. This has been going on for about one month. Any help would be appreciated.

I checked my rooster today for mites, and there was a huge red spot near his vent that I’m pretty sure is due to lice or mites. I’ve cleaned out the whole coop and the bedding, sprayed it down with poultry lice coop spray (including the roost), and mixed poultry dust with the bedding. I’ll dust...

I diligently dust and spray for mites/lice in all my coops and my birds, so I am at a total loss as to why some of my chickens have bright red skin and missing feathers. I have checked for lice/mites and do not see anything. Some of my feather-footed birds have red feet and have plucked out...

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...

Hey, all! I have 15 birds. A little while back, one of them started looking a bit shabby, losing some feathers, but otherwise acting fine. I thought maybe our turkey was picking on her (I have a male and a female turkey housed with the chickens, they all get along great 95% of the time). Anyway...

Hi all, I have a 1 yr-old Barred Rock hen that has been acting like a bit of a loner lately, free-ranging away from the rest of the flock, but she was eating and drinking so I didn't worry too much. Then when I got out of work last night I noticed she was bedded down at the base of an oak way...

Hello there, So I'm new to chicken raising, and I majorly screwed up. In my mixed flock of 11, I have two Brahmas..a rooster and a hen. Both of them have scaly leg. All the other chickens are fine. It's my fault, I neglected to clean the roost as often as I should have. Here's what's going...

Hi my ISA Brown “Ginger” is not well. On Friday she was laying down near where the others were scratching around. Her comb was and is flopped over and her tail was down. I picked her up and saw she was egg bound. When I came back to get her for a warm bath the egg was gone and she was running...