I just had this happen to one of our hens, no blood, looked like something grabbed her and she got away, looking closer she had plucked feathers around her head and a big handful from top of her butt... could be a molt but just looked more like she was grabbed. There is no rooser in this group and they are not let out with a rooster just in thier own group.They are our egglayers. At first I thought something grabbed her, then when I saw the feathers missing from her face I thought maybe lice, none of the other birds were affected, so treated the whole flock with the powder as a preacaution....But it seemed to get a little worse, So I set up critter cam, and It seems that after I moved the 2 breeding birds into the breeding pen with the rooster this group of girls got a little pckey with each other, one of the hens just seemed a littel rialed and was really picking at her, she turned around backwards to avoid the facial assalt, and she was ripping at the back of her., maybe because her roost mate was taken away, Im not sure but shes irratable. she walked all the way down the roost bar and pecked my hand when I was setting up the cam we had for foaling mares so we didnt have to walk out every so often, just watch on TV ..Was she mad at me cause I moved her freind? who know what chickens think.first time all year they let up on egg laying too. they dropped from out of 6 hens ...from 5 - 6 eggs per day all winter to 2 or three right now.
