Muscovy ducks plucking each other's wings?

[thoeffel1994]

I just noticed an issue with my young Muscovies plucking each other's wings. They'll reach out and grab another birds wing and yank the feathers out in the process. A few were bleeding. .

What should I do about this and why are they doing this. I've never had this issue before?

 

[HeritageFan]

Please give us more info so we can help more effectively -

How big is your coop? How big is your run?
Are they going after each other more in the coop, or the run?

What are you feeding them?

When they are pulling feathers from their flock mates, it is -usually- either boredom, vying for dominance in too small of an area, or a nutrient deficiency (if the “pluckers” are eating the feathers- that is more likely a deficiency)

Plucking wing feathers can be a big problem.... if they break a feather off, and the feather is bleeding, you have to pull the shaft out of the wing because the bleeding won’t stop on its own.

Adding “clutter” to the run, more feed and water stations, and other things to occupy them may help.
But please let us know your setup and him many ducks you have in the space so we can tag in more people to help if/ as needed