- Mar 23, 2011
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I'm very concerned about my 6 year old Ruby girl!! I noticed she was missing some feathers about 6 weeks ago, but didn't notice anything out of the ordinary. I thought she might be molting? Then, we were gone for a few weeks, and came home to even more missing feathers, and very bumbly looking skin around her vent. She is now also missing a bunch of feathers under her wings and tops of her legs. Non of our other chickens are going through this. She seem so to also have some dark spots under her skin around her vent. And, she does seem on the thin side.
We did clean the coop and put down some DE and wood ash over the past two weeks a few times, but nothing seems to have changed. I can post some pictures in the morning....I'm just wondering if anyone has any mediate input. She seem way more bothered this weekend.
Also, she is laying totally normal, still creating 3-4 beautiful eggs each week.
Help!? Thank you!!
ETA: I also wanted to note, that none of our other chickens have this issue. We currently have 4 chickens and the other 3 are all happy and healthy. I did just send hubby out to the coop to inspect for mites. We have never dealt with any bugs to our knowledge... besides some shaving dust in the air, he didn't notice anything.
We did clean the coop and put down some DE and wood ash over the past two weeks a few times, but nothing seems to have changed. I can post some pictures in the morning....I'm just wondering if anyone has any mediate input. She seem way more bothered this weekend.
Also, she is laying totally normal, still creating 3-4 beautiful eggs each week.
Help!? Thank you!!
ETA: I also wanted to note, that none of our other chickens have this issue. We currently have 4 chickens and the other 3 are all happy and healthy. I did just send hubby out to the coop to inspect for mites. We have never dealt with any bugs to our knowledge... besides some shaving dust in the air, he didn't notice anything.
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