tail feathers

  1. T

    Fluffy Tailfeathers

    Hello, I have one hen that has had fluffy back feathers for maybe a month now. I routinely check her for lice and the q-tip looking egg bundles, but I haven't seen anything of the sort. The feather shafts look normal and my other birds are fine. She does seem a bit smaller/lighter weight than...
  2. S

    Tail feathers are shorter?

    Noticed my chickens tail feathers look like they’ve been chopped off, could it be molting or maybe something else happened to it?
  3. M

    What’s with these tail feathers??

    I’m pretty sure this 6 week old chick is a roo. I’ve noticed this little puff of feathers at the end of their tail that the other chicks don’t have. Does this have a name? Or a way to describe it?
    • MsGloria
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    • baby roo baby rooster easter easter egger rooster chick rooster chicks rooster development tail feather tail feather development tail feathers
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    • Forum: What Breed Or Gender is This?
  4. weavingpachtie

    Hello! Is my 2yo hen turning into a rooster?

    Hello! I have an enormous 2-year-old RI Red who lost a toe in her first summer, 5 Dominiques, and four 4-5 wk old chicks (2 Easter Eggers & 2 Wyandottes). I’ve gotten tips from this forum for a few years now(thanks!), but only recently made an account. I recently read somewhere something like...
  5. AmberLittlejohn

    I accidentally ripped all her tail feathers out!!!

    My olive egger, Periwinkle, was in the trees and we’re about to have a heavy snow. When I tried to grab her she jumped down and I ended up ripping out a fist full of tail feathers. I read there are blood feathers back there but it’s very dark to tell if she’s going to bleed. Her rump is bare now...
  6. D1TrueGod

    Tom Turkey with Broken Tail Feathers

    I have a Bourbon Red Tom that's pushing two-years-old. I noticed a while back that his tail feathers were breaking off. This does not appear to be regular molting. He's the only Tom in the coop and there are only a small number of much smaller roosters. I'm at a loss for what's causing it...
  7. snsr33

    Dog attack

    My neighbor’s dog attacked my chickens. This time none were killed. My rooster, I think, jumped in to protect the hens and lost all of his tail feathers in the fight. There was a lot of painful squawking. Do I need to be treating the area? I don’t see any blood but the area seems to be pretty...
  8. Quailobsessed

    Pheasant keeps losing tail feathers

    So I have two golden pheasants; a male and a female. Over the last couple of days, my male has lost seven tail feathers. Before that he had a very thick tail with many feathers of different lengths, now the poor thing has only one long feather. Why would he be loosing them? Could he be...
  9. O

    How do I help my rooster from being picked on?

    Four months ago, I purchased 10 Australorp straight runs. After a few weeks, we noticed one of the chicks was forming stripes and found out we’d received a barred rock by mistake. I was so excited! A couple of months later, we realized we had 8 roosters and 2 hens! One of those roosters is the...
  10. rozzzatar

    Unsure about the cause of "notches" missing from tail feathers...

    Yesterday I noticed one of my bantam hens had 3 what I would call notches missing from some of her tail feathers. At that point no other birds had anything else like it. Then this morning I noticed one of my roosters and another hen had them as well. Upon further inspection the, whole flock is...
    • rozzzatar
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    • deplumingmites help mites mysterious parasites quillmites tail feathers whats wrong
    • Replies: 29
    • Forum: Predators and Pests
  11. laurenjean

    What's going on with these feathers?

    So my ameraucana(mix) has some craziness going on with her tail feathers, can anyone explain?
  12. Sjbuff

    Spots on tail

    My Buff Orpington has spots on a couple of her tail feathers. Is this normal? I don’t think it’s dirt. She’s had them since she started to get her feathers in.
  13. Phoebus

    Can somebody tell me what's up with these tail feathers?

    One of my 6 week old chicks has these strange feathers sticking out of her tail. They're firmly attached but have this very long shaft, then the feather starts. No one else has these.
  14. hihuckleberry

    Pullet feathers?

    Hi, I have 3 birds between the ages of 6-8 months. They all have no butt feathers (they came like that from the feed barn i bought them from, apparently they would pick at each other). they are just starting to grow back, i see some fluff. is it normal for pullets to have very little tail...
  15. JBYFarm

    Waddling And Tail feathers straight up?

    I searched around for an answer online and cannot find an exact answer. And not to mention, many of the diseases sound the same. My hen is about 10 months old and out of nowhere one day she started acting funny. She sits in one spot for long periods of time and her tail feathers stand straight...
  16. Erin Smith

    Female duck taking on male attributes?

    So, I've been keeping ducks for around 12 years now and currently only have females, but recently I've noticed that my oldest girl(who's hatched many ducklings and is definitely a female)'s tail feathers are starting to curl like a male's. I've often had only females for up to two or three...
    • Erin Smith
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    • ducks female duck gender plumage change tail feathers
    • Replies: 5
    • Forum: Ducks
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