molting

  1. Ellyhutch

    Muscovy duck losing weight

    My 2.5 year old darling Muscovy, Cheech, has me a little concerned. She’s been molting for a couple of months, which obviously takes a lot of energy, but now that winter is settling in, she’s much more fatigued than normal and she’s lost a lot of weight - like 2-3 pounds. Her caruncle looks...
    • Ellyhutch
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    • Forum: Ducks
  2. buffy-the-eggpile-layer

    Coccidiosis or Intestinal Lining?

    When scooping poop from the coop this morning, I noticed two poops had gelatinous/stringy red bits in it resembling blood. Should I go ahead and treat for coccidiosis? All the poops in the run looked normal and all my hens are acting bright, eating, drinking, etc. My hens are all 3.5 y/o; no...
  3. CamTheChknKeeper

    What’s changing my Lav Orp roo??

    I put a much younger (1 year old) lavender Orpington roo in with my first guy last year; they squabbled and Very occasionally the older one (nearly 10 years old now) bullied the younger, but they both crowed and strutted etc especially in front of the hens’ pen next door. This fall was the...
  4. RobinS1217

    Worms?

    Ugh. I’m afraid my chickens(17w) have worms. They’ve been “molting” for 5 weeks. there are 18 of them so not sure if they’ve been molting this whole time or just one after the other. Or if the feather loss is a symptom of a worm issue? They look like healthy birds but I take their run every 2...
  5. B

    Hen Losing Feathers! Bad mites?

    My 1 year old hen, Rosie, is rapidly losing feathers, mostly on her back. She just finished becoming broody, and this is her first "molt" of adulthood. She has overall been pretty healthy, and is a black australorp/ISA brown cross and her parents have no issues. I'm thinking it's bad feather...
  6. Kurakurakulaku

    Chicken suddenly pecks the other

    Hi… I only have 2 chickens I raised since they were 8 weeks. They’ve been so cute together all these times, I called them besties. They walk everywhere side by side. Then, one of the chicken is molting and becomes very aggressive toward the other chicken. She starts pecking the other chicken...
  7. TheBirdBabe

    Opinions on beak needed!

    Can I ask your opinion on this beak? 🤔 It was not like this before. I know it's molting season & everything is out of whack, but is this a chip or something more serious? Is there anything I can do for him? Sorry about picture quality. I was trying to get every angle & he wasn't having it! 😅
  8. buffy-the-eggpile-layer

    Rooster vaguely ill but can't figure out why!

    I recently posted about my 2.5 y/o bantam rooster, who had de-spurred himself. That all has healed up well but something more is off about him and I can't figure out what. A few days before that incident I noticed him slowing down--ex. being slower to leave the run when I let everyone out to...
  9. PhenixJiRa

    Molt & Artificial Lighting - 1 Year Old

    My chickens just turned a year old (Sept 2022) and I am using artificial lighting that comes on at 6:30am which is about 30 minutes before first light. I was planning to continue this for a month or so until it gets further into fall when I might remove the light but not sure yet (this is my...
  10. buffy-the-eggpile-layer

    Signs Chicken is *ABOUT* to Start a Molt

    My flock boss, Willow, a hybrid RIR, is having a rough summer. Health-wise, she'd been great. She's almost 3.5 years old and she's been laying quite well all through the summer--though, slightly less than the previous summer, which I understand to be normal. However, over the last week or two...
  11. K

    Molting?

    Hi!! My two oldest ducks (about 1.5 - 2 years old) appear to be possibly molting. It is the beginning prime summer time where I live (Maine) and it’s starting to get very hot out daily. I’m unsure if it is molting or if they are sick. They are acting normal, eating and drinking, their poop looks...
    • kbgrover
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    • Forum: Ducks
  12. MolliMonster99

    Runner duck molting?

    Hi everyone! My Runner duck Frances seems to be molting? He has a couple of bald spots on his wings and I can see he's got some new feathers starting to grow on the tips of his wings (you can see the feathers growing outwards). He seems to be losing more feathers than the others, but they all...
    • MolliMonster99
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    • ducks ducks molting feathers molting runner ducks
    • Replies: 9
    • Forum: Ducks
  13. T

    Molting or something else

    Hello, two of my hens wing feathers look like feathers are missing. They are acting normal and still laying eggs and comb is still bright red. The wings have been this way about three months. I thought it was possibly their first molt but they have been this way awhile now.
  14. S

    Molting Chicken Keeps Getting Pecked! Advice?

    Hi All, I have a Welsummer chicken (Lucy) who is 1 year old. She began molting back in late December (kinda early but I read that sometimes happens). She is pretty much done but can't seem to grow back her final tail feathers. This is mainly because another hen (Dolly) continues to peck at her...
  15. Thecharmingchickenmama

    Leaky Bum & Missing Neck and Butt Feathers

    Hello, I’m a first time chicken mom. I know that chickens go through a molting phase, but how long does it take for the feathers to grow back. These ladies still have a feathers missing from the neck and butts. I also noticed the neck and butt one of them is turning red. A few weeks ago I found...
  16. A

    Is this roo molting or something else?

    Hi All. Relatively new to keeping chickens, ours are 10 months old. Is our roo molting? Or is something else going on/did he get in a scuffle? Can’t seem to find a picture online of how ours is looking. Any insight is much appreciated :)
  17. R

    Missing feathers, barbs still in tact

    Yesterday, I noticed that one of my girls looked like she had injured her neck. She is one that is very skittish around us, so the only time I could inspect her is at night. I couldn’t see any broken skin, but the back of her neck and onto her back, she’s missing feathers but still has the barbs...
  18. Verbon30

    Chicken molting for 6 months.

    She been molting for 6 months I accidentally triggered a stress molt in 2 hens moving them around 2 coops 1 hen recovered normally. But one is growing feathers back at a extremely slow rate . She also seems to still laying eggs. I have feeding her kalmbach feathers fixer for the last 4 months it...
  19. I

    Naked hen

    My RIR started molting and now temps are below freezing. I made her a nice fleece saddle but the others are attacking her until I took it off. Would it help if the saddle was the same color as her? Any other ideas? The photo doesn't show how few feathers she actually has.
  20. Barredrocker99

    Egg with no shell at all?

    Hey all! With the colder weather approaching, a couple of my girls are going through some pretty gnarly molting. One of my Easter eggers hasn’t been laying for the last couple weeks(I know this because she is the only one out of 16 chickens who lays very light brown eggs) due to her molt. Two...
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