Moodleroni
Songster
Not an emergency, but topic best fits this thread since I don't know what this is:
I have 14 chickens total, 3 roosters & 11 hens. I check 1-2 chickens rotating, daily for bugs, visual signs of illness or injury. I dont have the time or energy to check all 14 all the time, and don't want to stress everyone out too much, so I've found this works best for me/us. So far, so good, except yesterday, I found this on the back of his neck, just below his head, of one of my roos.
It's about a 2"×2" area, hidden by his neck feathers, only able to see it when I pick up all his neck feathers. It looks like really thick dandruff, has pin feathers in the area but no full grown feathers in the patch. He has no other signs of anything, no signs of bugs that I can see, and he is acting, eating, drinking, and alfa-rooing like normal. He's about a year & a half, eats flock raiser feed, and fruits/veggies daily. He's the head honcho so he basically wants for nothing.
No one else has anything similar and no one is showing signs of anything that I've seen. No bugs in the coop & I've checked at night under their roosts.
Sorry the pic is blurry, I got bitch-flapped trying to get a pic, apparently I didn't have proper permission/permits to take his picture
Anyone have any ideas? Thanks in advance!
I have 14 chickens total, 3 roosters & 11 hens. I check 1-2 chickens rotating, daily for bugs, visual signs of illness or injury. I dont have the time or energy to check all 14 all the time, and don't want to stress everyone out too much, so I've found this works best for me/us. So far, so good, except yesterday, I found this on the back of his neck, just below his head, of one of my roos.
It's about a 2"×2" area, hidden by his neck feathers, only able to see it when I pick up all his neck feathers. It looks like really thick dandruff, has pin feathers in the area but no full grown feathers in the patch. He has no other signs of anything, no signs of bugs that I can see, and he is acting, eating, drinking, and alfa-rooing like normal. He's about a year & a half, eats flock raiser feed, and fruits/veggies daily. He's the head honcho so he basically wants for nothing.
No one else has anything similar and no one is showing signs of anything that I've seen. No bugs in the coop & I've checked at night under their roosts.
Sorry the pic is blurry, I got bitch-flapped trying to get a pic, apparently I didn't have proper permission/permits to take his picture
Anyone have any ideas? Thanks in advance!