No rooster! I did recently introduce my new batch of 16 week old chicks (that are completely healthy as they’d been quarantined since they were a few days old) so there is some pecking while the reestablishment m of the pecking order is happening, but these two ladies are near the top so they...
They are the Golden Comet in picture 3 and Easter Egger in picture 4. Like I mentioned, it is mostly the downy, white feathers from under their top layer that they are losing. I say “losing” as I haven’t caught them in the act of picking them out. I can try to get better photos of their...
Two of my thirteen ladies are losing lots of feathers! They seem to be acting normal otherwise. It isn’t their usual time to molt and they aren’t losing feathers in a molting pattern, but mostly downy fluff. It has been VERY hot in our area - upper nineties every day! Is this a normal behavior...