One of my parent's birds has had this issue for the better part of a year now where her feathers haven't grown back after a molt. They're patchy at best, and the ones she has are all twisted, or still in partly in the sheathe.
In the summer it isn't as much of a problem, but come cold weather...
I was raising 6 chicks in a brooder box but one has always been like half the size of the others. ( She's growing, just very slowly.) She was doing okay but I looked in today to see blood all over her tail, and all her back tailfeathers missing! It seems like maybe she broke a blood feather and...
We raise chickens for eggs, but a new Tractor Supply opened nearby with a variety of chicks for sale, so we decided to pick up some Cornish X to raise for meat.
I got them on the weekend of April 3rd and the guy claimed they were hatched the weekend before on the 27th but I think they couldn't...
One of them still has next to no body feathers at 10 weeks of age. She's a Columbian Wyandotte which my searches here tell me can be very slow to feather out.
Since it's winter I've been brooding them indoors instead of out in the garage. I had planned to transfer them out to the garage with a...