Pullet losing all of her tail feathers

[Ihavesomechickens]

Hi everyone.

I have a pullet that only had 2 real long tail feathers for a long time. She had rooster like tail feathers. Yesterday, she lost one and was left with one feather. When I got up to let them out this morning, I saw she had lost that one too and now she looks ridiculous. Is this normal? She just finished her juvenile molts, and I don’t think she is going to have another one till next year. Will her tail still grow back? I have a cockerel, but he hasn’t been able to mount the pullets yet. She is 15 weeks old. I have checked them for mites, and the whole flock came up clean. Now she is left with only her saddle feathers and some small tail feathers that are normally on the sides of the tail.

Any advice would be welcomed.

 

[Eggcessive]

Perhaps another chicken is pulling out her feathers. Are feathers lying around the coop and run? Is there any overcrowding or not enough protein in the diet?

 

[Ihavesomechickens]

Perhaps another chicken is pulling out her feathers. Are feathers lying around the coop and run? Is there any overcrowding or not enough protein in the diet?

I feed a 20% protein flock raiser to them. They have 60 square feet of space in the coop for 5 LF chickens, and 240 square feet in the run. She is at the top of the pecking order, and I would be hard pressed to find one of the others pulling out her feathers. There are feathers in the run, but some of them are still having their juvenile molts so I blame them on that.