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He's finally starting to get tail feathers!! Heya! He's also starting to crow (and I have fairly close neighbors), so he is going to a friend of a friend's farm. Good luck little man!

Has anyone kept a non-feathering chicken past a molt? I wonder if that would help? Hmm. The science of it all is intriguing me.

My Australorp cockerel is now ~4 1/2 months old, and still has less feathers than most chicks would at 2 weeks. Kind of. His neck finally feathered in, a couple days after I started supplementing with high protein feeds. But he *still* does not have any tail feathers at all-- nothing more than...

I have heard/read that extra protein makes chicks grow faster (i.e.- necessary when growing broilers), so I was wondering if extra protein would help these runty chicks? It would make sense at least that it could help their feathering, since I read that chicks without enough protein in their...