I have an 11 week old chick with scabs on her tail feathers.

[DonnaScott]

I don't see her being picked on but on the root of her tail feathers she has scabs on both sides.

Do I worry?

I thought chicks would be slightly easier than Guineas but it's literally just different worries.

Forgive me for my 200 posts.

 

[ChickenCanoe]

You are forgiven; new worries are fun (sort of).
You must mean scabs on the skin at the base of her feathers, not scabs on the feathers themselves.

 

[DonnaScott]

You are forgiven; new worries are fun (sort of).
You must mean scabs on the skin at the base of her feathers, not scabs on the feathers themselves.

Yes

You are forgiven; new worries are fun (sort of).
You must mean scabs on the skin at the base of her feathers, not scabs on the feathers themselves.

Yes. Sitting in the pen protecting my smaller one I noticed it on a different one.

They are killing me

 

[ChickenCanoe]

How old are the birds and what are they being fed? Type of feed and protein %, what else is in the diet?

 

[Hatch in chicks]

May I please see some pictures?

 

[DonnaScott]

May I please see some pictures?

I'm trying but its my most feral hen. I can only see it when she fluffs out. About the size of a dime scabs on the root of her feathers. Right and left.

 

[sourland]

How much space do they have? Sounds like pecking which frequently is caused by over crowding.

 

[aart]

I'm trying but its my most feral hen. I can only see it when she fluffs out. About the size of a dime scabs on the root of her feathers. Right and left.

Can you get some help holding this bird for pics?
Often easiest to 'catch' them off the roost after dark.

 

[DonnaScott]

How much space do they have? Sounds like pecking which frequently is caused by over crowding.

The run is 3 x 7 and I have 5 birds.

They all squeeze together in the coop on the roost. There is plenty of room on the roost and 2 others but they all squish together.

 

[Muser]

The run is 3 x 7 and I have 5 birds.

They all squeeze together in the coop on the roost. There is plenty of room on the roost and 2 others but they all squish together.

3 x 7 ft or 3 x 7m? Big difference between them