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  1. Please help my molting chicken

    Please help my molting chicken

    My blue lace red Wyandotte started molting a few days ago and the others we think were pecking at her, we have her separated but she started pecking at it herself like pulling on the skin. She is almost down to the bone. She is in the dark so she won’t see it and peck at it any help would be...
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    Need Help! Is she Molting??

    Hi, I have one hen and she is losing feathers on her belly. I bought her as a POL in May this year so I don’t know exactly how old is she, since she started laying in Jun so I assume she is just under 1 year old. Recently I notice her feathers are missing, it starts at very bottom and now I...
  3. K

    Molting or parasites? Or something else?

    Hi there, I have a 10 month old Barred Rock hen who is losing feathers all over her body. It LOOKS like she's molting... but I want to make sure. I initially thought that chickens didn't molt during their first year, but others have told me they can (which made me feel better). But then...
  4. 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...
  5. 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...
  6. BarneyNCyndi

    Molting... isn’t normal or is it?

    We have six girls and they are different ages. Our oldest is 4 1/2years old (Trouble); the name says it all and she is top hen. The next three (Lacey, Lucy &Lucky) are 2-1/2 and the next two (Betty & Beauty) are one. All are different breeds and all are molting except Trouble. No one has bad...
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