Skin issues?

[Cbutler]

Has anybody seen this in their ducks? We just noticed it.

 

[Cbutler]

@Amiga @Miss Lydia

 

[Miss Lydia]

I’ll have to take a look but as long as nothing is crawling around it’s probably normal. I’ll look at my drakes skin once light.

 

[Cbutler]

It’s not all over her, just her back. I don’t know if it’s from over mating, since one of my drakes is aggressive or if something is going on. I will check for bugs when it’s light too

 

[Miss Lydia]

It might just be natural skin flaking which they do I tried to see my drakes skin and his feathers are so tight I couldn’t get to his skin. I’ll have to check one of my females. this is interesting since I’ve never really looked that close at their skin.

 

[Cbutler]

I only noticed it when she got out of the pool and flapped to dry off. It’s directly between shoulder blades (wing blades?) It’s especially weird because she has no feathers there. I have 2 other girls molting, they don’t have this though,so maybe?

 

[Miss Lydia]

Maybe breeding then. That would be where you'd see feather loss.

 

[Cbutler]

I see no bugs, no spots anywhere else. It does come off, but not easily or comfortably for her. I took some better photos

 

[Miss Lydia]

Skin slouching off? Maybe @casportpony has seen this before I just can’t imagine it’s something harmful.

 

[Cbutler]

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