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Hello everyone! I just wanted to follow up on Zoey's condition. It's been a couple months since my original post, and she is finally starting to fill in with new, beautiful feathers! It has been such a relief to see her starting to look like herself again. So I guess this little lady just...

Thank you for this comment! Great info!! She used to have a buddy (her "sister" that she hatched with last year)...but now that buddy has moved on to become a mama. Mama wants nothing to do with Zoey and has turned on her as she's being super protective of the chicks. Hoping maybe when the...

Thank you so much for commenting. We live in Michigan where it's currently summer...our other chickens have molted in fall in the past, so I thought it was strange she'd be molting now. This hen is part Silkie. She has a combination of silkie feathers as well as regular feathers...and she's a...

Thank you for your comment! I hope she is just molting, like you say. I should have mentioned that she is part Silkie, and I've never gone through a Silkie molt (the 2 silkies we had previously both got killed by hawks before they ever got a chance to molt). Maybe they take a bit longer to go...

No we do not have a rooster in the flock. But the two oldest hens are definitely at the top of the pecking order...one of them even tries to crow like a rooster sometimes haha.

Hello... I'm looking for help/advice for our poor Frizzle hen, named Zoey. She is just over 1 year old. Recently we noticed that the rest of the flock (who are a year older than her and definitely the alphas in the flock) have been picking on her. Chasing her, pecking at her, stealing treats...