molting

  1. Rachel D

    First molt and chicken sleeping alone

    Hello, I have 4 girls: 2 Easter eggers, one barred rock, and one golden Wyandotte, all about 18 months old. My smaller Easter egger Pippi is molting and hasn’t laid an egg in over a week. They have a very secure run, and they all love to sleep outside on their roosting bar, but Pippi has moved...
  2. so_fancy_af

    The Tale of Mystery and Gremlin

    I have two Easter eggers, one of whom is a carbon copy of Hey Hey from the Disney movie Moana (legal name: Mystery), and one who is an anxious escape artist (Laura Houdini Gremlin). For the past few weeks I’ve been dealing with a string of chicken issues and so I’ve been a little…high strung. A...
  3. Kiariana

    Wound on molting hen- from picking? Need to do anything??

    One of my molting hens has a scabbed wound on her butt, where she's started molting. I think it is probably from picking and already sprayed the birds with stop-pick, but the area is swollen and firm to the touch. I want to make sure this isn't something to worry overmuch about. I've given her a...
  4. E

    Not getting better

    Hi all! I need help with one of my hens. We have had some really bad flooding in Florida, and as a consequence of that, cocci and mold we lost lost at least 7 baby chicks. It has been rough this year. Now everyone seems to be doing better, I've been providing probiotics and electrolytes in the...
  5. buffy-the-eggpile-layer

    Need Help! De-worming Sickly Flock During Molt

    I'm in a bit of a bind. During the last month or so of summer a few of my chickens started to have laying issues (weird shell-less, soft shelled, and otherwise wonky eggs; illness before laying a weird egg, then no eggs but acting like laying; suspected internal laying). It's been such a...
  6. F

    Help with molting

    I only have one laying hen that I bought a few weeks ago that laid two eggs for me then stopped laying! I thought maybe it was the stress of the move being with all new chickens but it’s going on too long for it to just be stress. My guess is molting since she’s missing some feathers around her...
  7. C

    Silkie hen sick or just dumb?

    Hi everyone, Long time lurker here, I have a silkie hen that was…not always the brightest but now she is either getting dumber or sick… I got her as a day old and she was quite energetic, actually I thought she was a boy while she was growing up because she was always running around and fighting...
  8. V

    Mites during molting?

    How do you know if your quail has mites, and if they are gone? They are molting, I see the one with baby feathers replacing for adult feathers. Sometimes I see a broken feather, is it because I stress them out so much because I keep checking them, or would it be mites? I don't really see...
  9. NatureGirl74

    molting or rooster damage?

    Several hens have been pecked or gotten their feathers broke by the roo. This one is different. She's not losing saddle feathers like the others. She's only losing wing feathers. Is it possible that she's molting already or is this also from the roo? I've never had a chicken molt so I don't know...
  10. E

    Hen stopped laying eggs for 5 months!

    Hello! I have searched this website endlessly with no definite answers to my problem. Hopefully you guys can help me. I have an almost 3 year old hen that stopped laying eggs for the past 5 months. I wanted to specifically collect her eggs so I could incubate them, so I moved her, the...
  11. D

    My new chicken has bald spots… I’m new!

    Hello all! I got two chickens today from a place off of the road in a rural town. The chickens there seemed to have a large pen and it was not over crowded. I got handed two chickens- one with a full set of feathers and another with some bald spots of raw red skin ://. It was pouring so in the...
    • Daniluchau
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    • advice advice appreciated bald diet feathers missing hen molting new addiction pecking at each other questions
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    • Forum: New Member Introductions
  12. M

    Chicken with a dirty bum?

    I have a chicken (around 2y.o.) in my flock of 4 that has started to lose her neck feathers and the feathers on her back end are getting very dirty. Noticed loss of neck feathers and dirty bum a few days ago (we just had a heat wave for 3 days, around 100F). Her behavior is still normal, eating...
  13. old mama hen

    Molting in Bovan browns

    We bought 15 Bovan brown layers March 26 from an egg producer. They were 1 year old and just going into molt. It's been 13 weeks and the most eggs we have gotten in one day is 3. Wondering if this is normal for this breed. Any thoughts?
  14. S

    Saddle feathers not growing back

    Hello! I have four chickens, and this last winter, three of them molted off their back/saddle feathers. To keep them warm, I gave them aprons which they wore all winter, but when I took them off in spring, the feathers were still missing. I haven't observed any feather picking between them...
  15. averyyr

    Lice and Molting

    Hi! I recently discovered a lice problem on my chickens and I’ve been trying to figure a way to treat it but it seems all my chickens are molting. They have all the signs and I would like to treat them for the lice but I’m not sure how to do it without hurting/stressing them. They have been dust...
  16. H

    Novice owner. Chicken losing feathers, recently started acting funny too.

    Hello, I'm very thankful there is a community for something like this. I am relatively new to chickens. My flock is 3 laying hens. My oldest is sick. She was my first chicken as we found her abandoned in the Australian bush. We took her to the vet when we first decided to adopt her. He said...
  17. Lanari

    Black Australorp rooster

    We have a black Australorp rooster that I thought was molting but he’s looked this way for about 3 months now. Any clue what’s going on with him?
  18. M

    Beyond Molting?

    We had 17 Pekin ducks hatch Mother's Day 2020 (pandemic incubation Science project). We kept 3 hens & 1 drake and rehomed the rest. One of our hens is... "molting"?? I read other threads and I'm wondering it there's something more than molting going on. During the winter we consistently got 3-4...
    • member 569347
    • Thread
    • housing ducks molting nutirition pekins
    • Replies: 2
    • Forum: Ducks
  19. Molt or something else?

    Molt or something else?

    My Rooster seems to be missing neck and lower back feathers. He is in a coop with 7 other hens. They are not quite a year old yet. My Rooster is a real Bastard so I can not get close to really check him out. All other hens looks good and don't seem to be loosing feathers. Is this a molt, or...
  20. fancyfarm

    1 yr Australorps bullying or molting? bald back of necks. Help

    hi y’all. I’ve read through several threads and haven’t found anything to help with my concerns. I have 3 Australorps that were a year on March 4. there is a pecking order that was established quite a while ago but never had serious issues. within the past couple of weeks, two of my girls have...
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