Hi everyone,
Please take a look at my EE Daisy Mae and let me know what you think. She has what looks like broken feathers and lots of bare skin.
I do not see any evidence of bugs. I have looked in at night under the roost and haven't seen any signs of lice or mites. I thought she was molting but this has been going on for maybe 8 good weeks now.
We had a rooster a while back that was very hard on her, even made her neck bleed, so we re-homed him. That was about 3 weeks ago. We have another rooster, a bantam that mates with her. I was wondering since he is smaller than her that he is the problem because he jumps up on her back right where the bald skin is.
We have her in with 2 roos and 8 other hens. One roo is a bantam cochin, in the picture, and the other is a polish roo, he is a gentlemen towards her and I have never seen him mate with her, just the little bantam and he is just starting to mate with the girls.
Any thoughts?
By the way, that is not the main coop, that is a broody coop in the picture.
Please take a look at my EE Daisy Mae and let me know what you think. She has what looks like broken feathers and lots of bare skin.
I do not see any evidence of bugs. I have looked in at night under the roost and haven't seen any signs of lice or mites. I thought she was molting but this has been going on for maybe 8 good weeks now.
We had a rooster a while back that was very hard on her, even made her neck bleed, so we re-homed him. That was about 3 weeks ago. We have another rooster, a bantam that mates with her. I was wondering since he is smaller than her that he is the problem because he jumps up on her back right where the bald skin is.
We have her in with 2 roos and 8 other hens. One roo is a bantam cochin, in the picture, and the other is a polish roo, he is a gentlemen towards her and I have never seen him mate with her, just the little bantam and he is just starting to mate with the girls.
Any thoughts?
By the way, that is not the main coop, that is a broody coop in the picture.
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