Chickennewbie72
In the Brooder
- Jan 8, 2022
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We cannot figure out what's wrong with our chickens. Several months ago a couple hens started losing back feathers. We had too many roosters at the time so we thought it was from over-mating. So we got rid of the extra roosters. We now have 2 roos for 17 hens. But more hens started losing back feathers. So then we thought lice and did a thorough clean out of the coop and treated all the chickens. But we have checked all the hens multiple times and never seen any lice or eggs and they don't seem particularly itchy and i have never seen any pull feathers out. Now recently they have stopped laying eggs. Then we realized the younger hens were not losing feathers, so we suspected overmating again and separated all adult roosters. But today I noticed some of the younger chickens have frayed feathers! They're not losing them yet but they look terrible! What in the world is wrong with our chickens??