Welcome! I am from LAH too. I now live in Sunnyvale.
I have in my back yard:
2 BO
2 RIR
3 Velociraptors AKA: Barred Rocks.(well mine are anyways)
They are all starting to Molt right now and theres feathers all over the yard.
ENJOY your stay here it a good source of information.
Nina
My BO's are Molting now and it's funny cause every time they shake their feathers all go flying all over. Looks like I plucked chickens in the back yard!! Blonde feathers all over.
Hello,
My Bordrock ladies have missing feathers and my other ladies, 2 RIR's and 2 Buff's don't. It's not molting related. It's been going on for sometime now. I have cleaned, dusted changed bedding regurally. Fresh water good food / scratch and clean greens. Daily outings in the back yard...
I have laying pellets alfalfa pellets scratch I also got alfalfa cubes too. I usually get greens( organic compost) from the farmers market on Sunday's but it Goes
Bad really fast. So I will make a mixture of grains that I listed and see how that works.
I gently pushed it back in with my finger and she is ok now. Poor baby. Their diet is good, green and scratch and laying pellets. so just a hitch I guess. I also need to get feather Fixer too. Some of my girls are stuck in mid molt and are missing feathers on their bellies and one has no...