What parasite is this?

[LosOsosChick]

My young roo has what look like tiny white eggs stuck to the base of the feathers around his face... Sorry the picture isn't better, but you can kind of see what I'm talking about near his wattles. Any ideas what this could be, and how I should treat it? TIA!!

 

[sourland]

It looks as if he has been in a partial molt and those are the remains of the sheaths from his pin feathers.

 

[LosOsosChick]

Yeah, he's definitely been molting a bit, growing in his big bird feathers! But these look like eggs, tiny like grains of salt, and stuck in the fluffy part of the feathers around his face. This is not the dust/particles from feather sheaths, though he does have some of that going on too!