- Aug 15, 2012
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I'm wondering how long it takes for new feathers to grow in a bald spot on ducks and chickens.
Our pekin has "matted" tiny ingrown feathers with yellow gunk plugs on his chest and our vet loosened up the scabby area and extracted a bunch. Today the area soften more, so I was able to extract more plugs and ingrown feathers.
Now he has a bald patch of bare skin the size of a quarter on his chest that was covered with yellow scabby gunk and very tiny fluffy ingrown feather clumps.
The tissue otherwise looks healthy and I cleaned it with antiseptic and he's on oral antibiotics.
I did more of what the vet did yesterday because she said if they aren't cleaned out, they become an abscess full of infection if the feathers remain stuck in there.
Just want to make sure new feathers will grow in that spot and am wondering how long it will take. Will new feathers not grow until he molts? I guess being bald is better than having a big infected abscess, but I'm hoping I didn't permanently pluck a bald spot on my drake!
Our pekin has "matted" tiny ingrown feathers with yellow gunk plugs on his chest and our vet loosened up the scabby area and extracted a bunch. Today the area soften more, so I was able to extract more plugs and ingrown feathers.
Now he has a bald patch of bare skin the size of a quarter on his chest that was covered with yellow scabby gunk and very tiny fluffy ingrown feather clumps.
The tissue otherwise looks healthy and I cleaned it with antiseptic and he's on oral antibiotics.
I did more of what the vet did yesterday because she said if they aren't cleaned out, they become an abscess full of infection if the feathers remain stuck in there.
Just want to make sure new feathers will grow in that spot and am wondering how long it will take. Will new feathers not grow until he molts? I guess being bald is better than having a big infected abscess, but I'm hoping I didn't permanently pluck a bald spot on my drake!
