Chicken bald back

[fantasticjudyann]

Does anyone know why chickens sometimes develop bald bums?

 

I got three new hybrids last June and they were fluffy and pristine but now two have developed bald and marked bums. They are not ill ....eating drinking and being chickeney as usual.

 

They are wormed with Flubenvet feed every four months and I use DE liberally every day when cleaning and in the nest boxes.

 

Although I have 2 Eglus all five of them squash into one at bedtime,silly things!

[Patricia W]

If two are bald and one is pristine- you have a feather plucker! Try anti-peck spray but I have found the only permanent solution is to bumpa bit the culprit.

[fantasticjudyann]

They all have beak rings.

[Patricia W]

Are they the same as bumpa bits?

[fantasticjudyann]

They are similar. They stop the beak from closing on the feathers so the hen cannot pull them out.

[Luvachicken]

If you have ruled out a feather plucker then maybe they moulted on their botties and it is easier to spot this when they moult.

One of mine, Queenie, had most of her feathers when she moulted - although scruffy - apart from her bottie that had no feathers at all.

[fantasticjudyann]

Yes I think that is what has happened. Bluebell had a bare bot and had been losing a few feathers but when I looked today it was all fluffy again. Strange creatures