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...
Well we got our money back at least, but they won't take em back so we're stuck. Not sure what to do, we don't have room for more egg layers really and I don't think they'd be worth it for meat. Thankfully we know other people with chickens so we'll see if anyone wants em.
Thanks for all the...
Augh do you really think so?? D: I will be so ****** if they sold us the wrong kind... The signs all said 'Cornish Cross' and everything. I have to stop by for supplies tomorrow so I'll be sure to ask.
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...