Polish getting pecked badly!!!!!! Help please!

[Prairie Chick]

I have the same problem with my two 3 week old polish chicks.
We came home after our Fathers Day BBQ and found that the other chicks had plucked the back of their heads and they are almost bald. It looks awful and very painful.
I have them in a seperate pen now. Will their feathers grow back? Will I have to keep them seperate from the others even when they are older?

 

[MissPrissy]

They will grow back. You can boost the along by giving them some scrambled egg every day. Protein helps grow feathers.

 

[ChickenToes]

I had 2 birds that got pecked quite badly. When they both healed up, we put the one bird back in with the others without a problem. When we tried to put our EE back in, holy moley. They attacked her within seconds. The easiest solution we came up with is to just build another little hen house for her. We will eventually put other birds in with her so she can socialize.

 

[Suess hens]

This so explains why my polish just follows feet...or so she seems to. She follows Lucy my Silkie around everywhere...and Lucy is such a mom to anything. But I will have to keep an eye out when my little ones go out there with her.

 

[ThreeBoysChicks]

MissPrissy - Before I left for work this morning, I did give Polly the Polish a trim. She did act different. She could actually see to the side instead of only down. And you really could not even tell she had a trim.

 

[MissPrissy]

She will discover a whole new world today!

 

[zatsdeb]

my polish rooster, the one on my avitar, gets picked too, someone picks on his head, I have never seen anyone do it, but he has a bald patch on his head. I thought they picked because he is the one who causes trouble all the time! He thinks he is the top banana, but really elvis is, my brahma rooster. I am going to try to put something on his head, his feather are growing back, it seems that he gets picked in the winter when they don't go out much.

 

[ZepChick]

Thanx everyone!!!!! If we clip their head-feathers will they eventually grow back?

 

[MissPrissy]

Yes they will and you'll have to trim them back again when they start to cover their eyes.

 

[ChixFlix]

My Polish rooster has to be kept separate - and this is a total "JOB" to do since I only have one coop.

Even 10 minutes alone with the girls, and they peck and twist the newly growing feather shafts off his head.

The RIR gals are really aggressive towards him.

I love him, he follows my white boots (I have trimmed the feathers around his eyes, so he can see) and I give him a piece of tomato every morning as a treat since he has to stay in while the 9 RIRs go out.

I switch them up around 5 pm, so he gets some exercise. This can't go on forever - I'm getting up at 0:dark thirty to switch them out before they eat his brains from his skull.

It's a shame, too. He's just finding out he's a boy and they are girls. He's doing the dance and tries to chase the last one in the coop around before she finds the door.

He looks like a space alien with the long white feather shafts sticking out of his head. Like Pinhead in that scary movie, only more clustered...hahaha!