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  1. Fluster Cluck Acres

    Lavender hen shedding dark feather sheathing during molt?

    This is the first for Willow, but we've had a tough time with crops this summer. Apparently the grass in the yard is extra delicious this year so I periodically need to clear grass impactions.
  2. Fluster Cluck Acres

    Lavender hen shedding dark feather sheathing during molt?

    Of course not. We're doing 7 days of Miconozole now that the impaction is cleared. She arleady seems to be feeling better. She's having more solid stools and acts like she's feeling better.
  3. Fluster Cluck Acres

    Lavender hen shedding dark feather sheathing during molt?

    Thank you for clarifying. Do you know if it's typical or could be an indication of something? She had been struggling with a partial impaction & sour crop, so I wondered if she was dehydrated and that may have contributed. Her crop has been improving and the last 2 days I didn't notice hardly...
  4. Fluster Cluck Acres

    Lavender hen shedding dark feather sheathing during molt?

    I'm glad to hear I'm not the only "picker," LOL! I try to use self control and just not touch my molting birds, but if I do have to touch them, I just want to pull all the casings off! They hate it! So instead I annoy my dogs by picking loose tufts of hair off of them, haha.
  5. Fluster Cluck Acres

    Lavender hen shedding dark feather sheathing during molt?

    Don't give up hope. My Blue Rock was very bold and outgoing as a chick, and had an early comb pop. I worried for a while! Here's a pic of Siggy the Blue Rock (little bird w/ big comb on the left) and her same age flockmate, Chicory, who is a Rhode Island Blue (Blue Australorp x RIR mix). Chicory...
  6. Fluster Cluck Acres

    Lavender hen shedding dark feather sheathing during molt?

    If anyone is curious about the dark spots my lavender hen was shedding, here is a video. It's not the feather casing, but whatever dark material is inside the feather casing.
  7. Fluster Cluck Acres

    Lavender hen shedding dark feather sheathing during molt?

    It took me a long time to spot the barring on my Biele mix cockerels. Granted they were silver birds so it only appeared on their hackles and tails where they had some darker pigment. I only have the one hen from the blue Andalusian x barred rock crossing, so I don’t know what a cockerel would...
  8. Fluster Cluck Acres

    Lavender hen shedding dark feather sheathing during molt?

    He’s gorgeous! As far as barring being sex-linked, I think it has to be a solid (or non barred) rooster over a barred hen. When I bred my not barred barnyard mix Roos to my Bielefelder hens, the cockerels had barring and the pulleys did not. i think the blue Andalusian x barred rock crosses...
  9. Fluster Cluck Acres

    Lavender hen shedding dark feather sheathing during molt?

    Wow. Yours is slower feathering than my guy was! Do you know if it’sa pullet or cockerel?
  10. Fluster Cluck Acres

    Lavender hen shedding dark feather sheathing during molt?

    Willow’s feathers are a lovely lavender color, but she does have that shredder gene. She has dark skin under those feathers which I think gives her a neater look when compared to my lavender Wyandotte hen, who is much more silver/light blue/grey colored. I’m with you on this one! Every time I...
  11. Fluster Cluck Acres

    Lavender hen shedding dark feather sheathing during molt?

    This may be entirely normal and I’ve just never noticed it before. My 2 year old lavender Orpington hen, Willow, is currently molting. But instead of the normal white/grey sheathing, hers is dark. At least, I’m pretty sure that’s what it is. I am currently working on a grass impaction in her...
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