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Congratulations on your new chicks and hens. Your new hen may be just molting or there is a possibility that she is taking time to get adjusted on her new home and will lay soon. A third possibility is that she is an older hen which was taken to auction as she has slowed down...
I have been giving them some hulless sunflower seed chips and also a handful of high protein dry kitten food (40% protein) everyday. I also try to give them some meat scraps whenever I have some until it warms up enough for the bugs to come out. Maybe I should try the BOSS with shells on...
I have 6 hens (3 BO & 3 SLW) and 5 of them look very similar to yours and the 6th one (Rosie - BO) has no feathers msissing at all. The problem is that Rosie is a "feather picker". She pulls the feathers out of all of the other ones and they just let her do it.
She does it when they are...