matted feathers

  1. Michael Propst

    Fluff Feathers are Matted. Advise? Bath or Not?

    Here in the midwest we went from the 60's to the mid 90's in a week last month, just skipped spring and went straight to late summer weather. We are still having the mid to high 90's with high humidity. Hitting heat indexes around 110. The extreme shift to heat caused my most of my girls to...
  2. W

    Help!!! Rescued Chicks and They're Dying!

    My boyfriend volunteers for our fair and 50 chicks were not picked up. Instead of leaving them there to die, he brought them home. I fell in love immediately but we are having so many problems. Seven have died at this point and we've had them for 5 days. We have them in our downstairs bathroom...
  3. Gail Laubenthal

    Is this chicken sick?

    One of my 24 week old BO's looks like it has been secreting something on it feathers. I've noticed it for a couple of weeks, but never thought much about it. Today, I took a closer look and didn't find anything crawling around on her, but matted top and down feathers. I decided to give her a...
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