Our Drake has developed a bald patch on his Chest

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Our Drake has developed a bald patch on his Chest
« on: June 01, 2014, 18:42 »
Hello all,

I was a member of this forum some time ago with a different email address and found an absolute wealth of knowledge from you all!

So we have chickens and ducks now, the ducks being the new arrivals. We have a Welsh Harlequin Drake and two Khaki Campbell layers.

We bought our three ducks about 2 months ago and the girls are laying 2 a day so we are chuffed to bits with that. A pond is now being created in the garden (which was absolutely not the plan!) rather than the current containers full of water. It is so easy to get carried away!

Anyway, we have noticed a bald patch appearing on our boys chest. We had a better look today and took a few photos. I'm hoping somebody is able to shed some light on this and alert us if there is problem.

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Thanks in advance,


Simon

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Sassy

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Re: Our Drake has developed a bald patch on his Chest
« Reply #1 on: June 02, 2014, 09:41 »
Assume you have checked for usual lice etc? Otherwise, sorry, nothing springs to mind, not that I am an expert!  :)
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Re: Our Drake has developed a bald patch on his Chest
« Reply #2 on: June 08, 2014, 20:05 »
Any of your hens feather peckers? That's exactly what my cockerel looked like when one of my Marans took a fancy to him - and it was all around the neck and lower chest area she went for.



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