Broken blood feathers!

[Avian Allie]

I have ducks that are about two months old and one has broken 4 blood feathers on the same wing in 3 days. One the first day and two the next night and one last night ( I only pulled them last night because the clots had broke and started bleeding badly.) She is getting niacin and good feed. She’s not being bullied as far as I can tell and even though she sleeps in a bathtub at night she has only seemed to break her blood feathers after she’s been outside. When they’re outside they are in their own pen too. There’s enough water and the other two are perfectly healthy. What could possibly be going on?

 

[Isaac 0]

Is there anything in the pen she may be hurting the feathers on?. I would let her out in the pen and watch to see what is happening

 

[Miss Lydia]

I wonder if one of the others is just too interested in those new blood feathers growing in?

 

[Avian Allie]

Thank you so much for your replies. I started watching more carefully if it was the fencing she was hitting her wing on or the others biting. Turns out one of my adult ducks was reaching through the fence to bite her wing and pull her closer so she could groom the baby.

 

[Miss Lydia]

How funny! Well now we know!