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  1. Yoles32

    Blue Swedish Duck hasn't molted primary wing feathers in three years!

    Hello duck people! I have a small flock of three ducks that are four years old. Two Black Swedish and one Blue Swedish. The problem is with the Blue Swedish hen. She hasn't molted her primary wing feathers since she grew her adult feathers! So three years later they are just like sticks on the...
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  2. Alice's Amazing Moult ( Molt )

    Alice's Amazing Moult ( Molt )

    This year my hen, Alice, had the heaviest moult I have ever seen so I am sharing a time line of images to show what chickens can look like when losing and regrowing their feathers. Warning: images of semi-naked and spiky chicken to follow. 25th January 2020 This is Alice (front). Alice is an...
  3. analyticalblonde

    20% of Flock is Doing Weird Molting...To Give Molt Muffins or Not?

    I have 10 girls...2 of each: Ameracunas, Barred Rocks, Lavender & Buff Orpingtons, and New Jersey Reds... First to start molting was one of my Lavender Orpingtons, Legs, about a month ago...she started at the head & neck, skipped the torso and it went directly to her butt...she's bringing in...
  4. Maddy10122

    HELP!!! 2 YEARS, NO MOLTING FROM DUCK

    Hello everyone! Some background: My ducks were born in June of 2017. Being a first time duck/chicken mom, I when they came to age, I promptly trimmed their flight feathers in fear of them flying away. One of the ducks has molted multiple times in the years since, but the other duck still has...
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    • duck duck advice ducks feather condition feathers feathers aren't growing help molt molting no molt
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  5. Arbutus Peregrine

    MITES? Over-preening? Moulting???

    Hi there :) My bantams are 25 weeks old this week and I am noticing feather loss. I noticed it on a few of my D'Uccles first. They really stick together and groom each other a lot...so I thought, maybe it's over-preening. My cockerel was literally "hen-pecked" on his chest about two months ago...
  6. ginny_e

    Complete molt or something else?

    Hello, I've got a year and a half year old cochin hen that is dropping her feathers like crazy. I checked for lice/mites, and nothing. Her skin looks really healthy, but if you touch her, her feathers fall out. She's not picking at them either. Within a day she has huge bald spots. I moved...
  7. lbgreenfield

    Bare Bum in Winter

    Hi everyone! I have a 2 year old Barred Rock that is the top hen in my small flock that has lost almost all of her bum feathers (see attached photos). I thought she was molting because she's been losing a lot of fluffy feathers, but her butt and belly are the only places she's lost feathers...
  8. BackyardZen

    Hens Molting? Egg Laying Stopped for 2+ Months?

    Hello Community! We have 8 hens in a chicken tractor here in Long Island, NY. Some background on our operation: I move the chicken tractor every morning to a fresh spot of grass. We provide a high-quality layer pellet feed available at all times. We provide water available at all times (via 2...
  9. Dance_in_Fire

    What do you think?

    So, i came out this morning and found one of my hens not only outside the coop but outside a fenced yard. She was wet(its been raining) and very cold, shivering. I caught her brought her in and gave her a warm bath to get rid of the mud that was caked on her. Only then i noticed the extent of...
  10. M

    Shivering while molting

    My three year old hen, Nugget, was mid-molt when the temperatures started dropping. During the day we have temperatures in the high 60s but at night it sometimes dips down into the 30s. Tonight I noticed she was shivering when I went to lock up the coop. Is there anything I can do to help her...
  11. Georgeschicks

    Crazy molt... Already?

    Hi! I have four gorgeous chickens normally who turned two this summer. They *kinda* molted last year in mid november. I live in Maryland and this year all my chickens started molting at the end of september. they look terrible right now- here is a pic of one from a few days ago. she has lost...
  12. Urban Waddler

    Wing Molt Issues

    We’ve been going through a lot of issues with my precious 1.5 year old pekin, Loretta these last months. She has a well monitored case of bumblefoot, she was laying weird eggs, and not getting through her molt well at all. We did an implant to stop egg production to give this little girl a much...
  13. WannaBeHillBilly

    What can be made out of Duck Feathers?

    Hi Friends, it seems my ducks have started with their fall molt and all over the garden there are beautiful white feathers like these: There will be a lot of feathers from my 17 Ducks, in many different colors… Have you ever done or made something useful with your duck's feathers? Other than...
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  14. Verbon30

    Silkie molting

    How long does it take for silkie to molt and start laying eggs again. can you help spread it up?
  15. centrarchid

    Molting as Growing Up

    These chicks are day 17 post-hatch. The have already began replacing the flight feathers that were erupting at hatch. The last chick, a pullet, is what looks to my eye to be butterscotch colored.
  16. Thechickentrainer1999

    Missing feathers, red butt.

    I have a buff Orpington hen who molted last fall, she didn't go through a hard molt at all just lost a few butt feathers, here we are months later and those feathers have not grown back and her skin is really red back there? Any suggestions or answers? Could it possibly be another hen plucking...
  17. CanadaEh

    Feather pecking and egg laying

    I am wondering - is feathers loss due to feather pecking and over breeding has similar affect on egg laying as feather loss during molt? I have isolated the feather pecker chicken 2 weeks ago, as well as the rooster that had bloodied tail due to feather pecking. The isolated chicken have been...
  18. dedonx

    Does this look normal?

    My Silver Laced wyandotte is acting weird. She looks all stringy, and walks with a bit of a high-step. Her feathers will not grow back even after I kept my flock on Feather-Fixer all through winter. Her eggshells are very thin as well. I've added oyster shells into their feed to no avail...
  19. L

    How long does Chicken Molt

    Hi, I have a golden top and she has not laid or go broody since November. I can see she has lost some feathers on her chest so maybe it is because she is molting. But it has been few months now and she still has a bald chest. Their daily diet consists layer pellets, bird seeds, meal worms...
  20. Raptorchick

    Regrowing feathers?

    So I have this hen, shes a 4 year old buff orpington, that has been almost bald of feathers for more than a year. Two years ago I had a couple of aggressive roosters, and only 7 hens, which is when the feather loss started. I bought the girls "jackets", to protect from the roosters, but most of...
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