Help! my girl has a red head

[Linda Biermann]

Daisy is a buff orpington.


Picture the skin around a chicken's eye. It is red. Daisy has red patches all over her head. She doesn't look like she has been pecked by the other girls, there is no blood at all, just looks exactly like the skin around her eyes. I thought maybe she was molting, but after 2 weeks she hasn't lost any other feathers and she's still laying. I have her separated from the other chickens. She's not getting any better or any worse and she doesn't act at all sick (except she want to be with her sisters) and her head looks exactly the same.
Advice? Suggestions? I'm clueless!!

Thank you so much,

Linda

 

[Lamaremybabies]

That's called feather pecking. It happens for a couple reasons, one you have a rooster and when he mounts her he grabs the feathers on the back of her head for support. Or two she's towards the bottoms of the pecking order and higher hens are picking on her.

 

[Chicka and Co]

Maybe the early stages of fowl pox?

 

[BYCforlife]

She looks like my extremely mounted hen. If her back starts going bare, then you know that's the cause.

 

[Lamaremybabies]

Maybe the early stages of fowl pox?

No, she looks too healthy. She's being picked on. The same exact thing happens to one of my barred rocks every once in a while. The higher chickens pick on her occasionally in the same spot

 

[Linda Biermann]

Thank you all so much, I have a couple things to look up, but hopefully it is just her being picked on.