Missing feathers back of neck

[Cyprus]

Have you tried Pick No More Lotion by Rooster Booster? Chickens hate the taste of that stuff a lot. It works well.

 

[Kris5902]

Just ordered it on amazon... that will get it to me faster than if I need to go to town for it

 

[aart]

Do not wrap anything around the birds neck!
And no spray on stop pick crap is gonna do a darn thing, except make him wipe his beak.
Really, it's just part of chickeneering.
If it's really a problem, like bloody wounds, separate the cockerel until he grows up a bit and to let girl heal.

 

[Kris5902]

Kicking myself for forgetting we wanted to go to the feed store first our last town day... but My husband got an email about a job offer just before the ferry docked, and we were so focused on setting a time for when we could park the car and take a call about it, and getting the catfood my mother neglected to tell us we were almost out of before our last trip... I forgot about it until they were closed.

 

[Kris5902]

Do not wrap anything around the birds neck!
And no spray on stop pick crap is gonna do a darn thing, except make him wipe his beak.
Really, it's just part of chickeneering.
If it's really a problem, like bloody wounds, separate the cockerel until he grows up a bit and to let girl heal.

You’re about 3 minutes too late from saving me $40 on Amazon! Lol... I’ll try it, seeing as it’s ordered now anyway. Maybe he’ll be a fussy boy and be turned off by it? He’s not bad really, quite the little gentleman so far as chicken mating seems to go. He’s not really overmating anyone yet, their backs are all fine, it’s just the one girls nape of neck.

 

[Mosey2003]

Not to nitpick, but you keep saying he's very gentlemanly, yet he's ripping feathers out of one of them. Doesn't really equate.

 

[Fishkeeper]

Missing feathers are kind of an inevitability when a rooster has a favorite. He's gotta stay on her back somehow, after all.

 

[aart]

You’re about 3 minutes too late from saving me $40 on Amazon! Lol... I’ll try it, seeing as it’s ordered now anyway. Maybe he’ll be a fussy boy and be turned off by it? He’s not bad really, quite the little gentleman so far as chicken mating seems to go. He’s not really overmating anyone yet, their backs are all fine, it’s just the one girls nape of neck.

Cancel it? Probably too late, they are fast.

Not to nitpick, but you keep saying he's very gentlemanly, yet he's ripping feathers out of one of them. Doesn't really equate.

Clumsy boys are not necessarily being aggressive....and she may be weak feathered too.

 

[Kris5902]

Not to nitpick, but you keep saying he's very gentlemanly, yet he's ripping feathers out of one of them. Doesn't really equate.

He’s trying to be gentle, he’s just a bit of a klutz right now. He does all these cute little calls to them, won’t eat treats at all, even mealworms, just gives them to the girls. There’s no damage to the other girls, and I’ve watched him with them too, and many of them are much smaller and lighter. Maybe she is moving her head and neck in some way that’s causing it?

I haven’t been able to figure out exactly how it’s happening. I know it’s not intentional, and he’s not mating her constantly either, maybe once or twice a day, not much more than the other girls. I spend a lot of time out with them now, building stuff near the tractors, so I’m spending a lot of time watching them. And I’m collecting eggs four times a day as well (they’ve only broken one out of 3 dozen, and that was yesterday)