About half my girls, mostly the ones that are about 15 months old (but some on the 3 year olds) are missing feathers almost exclusively on their necks and heads. Is this just a normal molt, do I have feather pickers, or should I treat for mites or lice or something? They are all otherwise...
I am wondering if anything with coloring similar to the original chickens, red jungle fowl, but that are docile and cold hearty exist? Would love to get something with that look, but want it to be happy spending most the time in the decent size run and handle Wisconsin winters.
These are our first 4 chickens. We got them 5 weeks ago and I believe they are about 20-22 weeks old now. We love them so far, even our 2 year old labradoodle. 3 of them look just like the website and are gorgeous, but one of the Australorps is a stumpy little thing. Her crop area seems a...