I have 1 chicken and 1 guinea hen left in my flock. I went away for the weekend and when I got back she lost a good portion of her feathers. She has never molted like this before. What else could cause it
I’m not sure if our bird is sick. She had been broody for a while. When she came out she then began molting and lost most of her feathers at the same time. I noticed a soiled back end and thought that she had diarrhea, then I found her sleeping in the nesting box and it was filthy. I also...
The guineas are 16 months. There were 6, now I have three. They are housed with six chickens which all seem to be healthy. They all grew up together from about a week old. Started with hi protein favoring the guineas then switched to layer feed when hens started laying