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...
They have their feathers and are going into that teenager look lol I can probably turn it off now.The nights are ok and as they have feathers they can keep warm. I turn it off durring the daytime as it's been 80+.
Thank you.