Molting or disease or parasites

[KOelofsen]

Hello Everyone.

I please need your help. One of my chicks seem to have lost all of their feathers on their back and breast. I have tried to google it and I can not seem to identify the problem. I do not see any blood or skin irritation and have not noticed any feathers on the floor. She is also still very active and she is eating very well.

Is she molting?
Or is it a disease or parasite?
Or is she being bullied?

She is the only one out of 8 that this happened to.

 

[Saveria]

Do you think she could have burned them off with the heat lamp? I have seen that before, but that would be a really intense example of it.

 

[KOelofsen]

Do you think she could have burned them off with the heat lamp? I have seen that before, but that would be a really intense example of it.

Ok let me switch off the light. The others seem fine with no loss. And they all huddle togther inder the light when they sleep.

 

[Saveria]

You don't have to switch it off, but if she was too close it could have happened. You can just lift the light up a bit. Does she smell like burned feathers at all?

 

[nuthatched]

If never seen anything like that. Is he getting picked by others?

 

[Saveria]

Oh yes, he. I didn't even notice that comb.

 

[KOelofsen]

You don't have to switch it off, but if she was too close it could have happened. You can just lift the light up a bit. Does she smell like burned feathers at all?

Oh. Sorry. No burned smell or any signs of a burn. Even touching her skin she does not react so it does not even seem to hurt.

 

[Kiki]

How many birds do you have and what size is the space you have them in?

What exactly are you feeding and do you have a heat lamp on them?

 

[KOelofsen]

If never seen anything like that. Is he getting picked by others?

No if anything he is the active one. Walking around and having fun. Jumping on the others and climbing out of the brooder. Even on the dogs. Not a scardy cat at all. They will be going into the coop this week end as they are getting big.

Hmm ok so I have a rooster.

 

[nuthatched]

No if anything he is the active one. Walking around and having fun. Jumping on the others and climbing out of the brooder. Even on the dogs. Not a scardy cat at all. They will be going into the coop this week end as they are getting big.

Hmm ok so I have a rooster.

Cockerel, technically. A young rooster is called a cockerel. I wonder if it's an allergic reaction.