#molting

  1. V

    Only one chicken loosing feathers

    I have 15 chickens. Yesterday, I noticed that all the sudden one of my chickens went from having very fluffy feathers to loosing all tail feathers (all vent feathers are still there), but her back (maybe saddle?) Feathers are gone and a little more up the way of the back. However, it looks like...
  2. K

    My chicken is hiding?

    Hi everyone! So I posted about this yesterday, but I wanted to make a new thread to get more answers. My speckled Sussex is hiding under the coop constantly, she will come out to eat , drink and for treats but she’s under there instead of pecking and scratching during the day. She is in a molt...
  3. EasterChickens

    Chicken loosing feathers!! Please help!!

    Hello everyone, I have a 1 year and 5 month old Easter Egger hen and she just started loosing a bunch of feathers starting from 2 days ago. I don't know what to do and i'm very scared something is wrong. When I also touch/pull out her feathers gently, it falls out very easily. Could this be...
  4. L

    Flaky skin on head and getting picked on

    Hi,my chook is molting for her autumn molt but I have noticed some dry, flaky skin around her head and she is getting picked and pecked on by my other hen, she had recently finished being broody and i dont know if this is supposed to happen, how can I help her and what should I do I, is this...
  5. demonic

    Do chickens lose all/most of their feathers when molting?

    I have a 1 year old Leghorn x Delaware hen and she is one of my best layers. She rarely skipped and laid huge brown eggs. However, randomly she stopped. She had 1 small patch of feathers missing on each of her shoulder (both the same size, around the size of a penny) where meat was showing. she...
  6. cadenrupp

    Young Hen losing patches of feathers.

    We got six pullets in April of last year and noticed over the last few days that one of them has been losing a lot of her feathers. I know that she’s too young to be molting and there seems to be too many feathers missing for it to be bullying. Also, the majority of feathers she’s losing are...
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