Thank you! No feather bomb at the moment. The neck feather loss has been happening for at least a few weeks now, the back feather loss just started within the last week.
Can hens molt this time of year? A few birds in our flock are losing their neck feathers below their beak and a couple are also starting to lose feathers at the base of their tail. They are still laying eggs, have been all winter without a supplemental light. We have two ducks so they are all...
Thank you all. The feedback is appreciated especially considering the simple natured question answered with some condescending terminology...guess we should have simply asked male or female LOL! People sure like to make themselves feel good Anyhow seems our suspicions were correct, our next...
Hi! Glad to be joining you all from Colorado. I grew up with backyard chickens,
now have a flock of my own and still learning along the way. Chickens are so much fun to have roaming around the back yard!
I’m trying to determine why one of my chickens was not acting like her normal self today. We live in Denver & this is the first cold/snow for our chickens. We have 6 chickens who were all hatched in the late spring/early summer. They are able free range in the yard throughout the day. They all...