moult

  1. Chickenwithnobrim

    Chicken wont eat

    Hi guys! I have a chicken with no upper beak named Paddy. I need help getting her to eat, as she has recently decided she hates layer pellets, and will only eat scrambled eggs. She is also going through a pretty rough moult that has affected her mood overall, and shes been spending large chunks...
  2. Dee the Feather

    Big moult.... and probably some pecking

    Hi all, your advice would be gratefully appreciated on the following: 2 sister hens, favourite of my rooster Dennis, usually big brassy girls with a good position in the flock, both have taken a very severe moult and I think one of them is being pecked even barer by a lady in the flock who tends...
  3. Laineyloo

    Bald underbelly

    Help please! I’ve been watching one of my hens for the last couple of weeks gradually lose the feathers under her tummy. She doesn’t seem uncomfortable and is still laying. I’ve checked her for mites and made sure she’s not roosting where there’s poop. She does have a few new pin feathers coming...
  4. mybackyardhobbyfarm

    Moulting ?

    I’m assuming this is her first moult ? Her hatch date was Feb 26,2020. Left side is this summer when she started laying and the right side is now. She’s looking pretty scraggly and had stopped laying a couple weeks ago but she hasn’t changed at all in demeanour or activity.
  5. lorric372

    Lack of eggs, aggression, and moult. All connected?

    Hi all, This thread will be as random as the title! My around-a-year-old Welsummer was adopted as part of my original three in April. She was always the bottom of the flock and was also last to lay, however is a happy little soul normally although very flighty and won't be held. About 2.5...
  6. AlexD98

    Moult or sick

    I've just got a new hen for my flock(lavender araucana), the previous owner said she's just started to moult... I've got home and upon further inspection ( hope this makes sense) the strands coming out of the feather root/ centre thing are very short ( on her back) also she has quite watery...
  7. 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...
  8. DimeStoreFarmGirl

    Weird Hens

    Hi! New here! I currently own 4 EE's and 2 red sex links. My EE's are a blast and are pretty regular layers, only about 8 months old. However, about a week ago I got 13 month old red sex links. The guy I bought them from was real weird, he bought about 400 hens from some egg producers in South...
  9. 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...
  10. 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.
  11. alexisrambles

    Feather Cysts? Treat or see if it'll fix itself.

    Hello guys! I think one of my girls, a dark brahma, has feather cysts on her wings. She's about 6-7 weeks old. I thought at first it was just her picking at her first moult, but her wings don't look too fun. She's acting fine, pooping fine. When my girls started moulting, it was really hard on...
  12. coltgrizzz

    Update on Berthas mystery illness

    Hey guys so a while back in November i posted about my chicken Bertha (leghorn) who got sick but had all the symptoms in the book of it just simply being caused by her moulting. Fast forward a bit to this month, Bertha still isn’t laying, has orange feet (compared to my other birds who have pale...
  13. M

    My molters are being mean to my silkie. Please help.

    Hi, I could really use your help. I have 6 hens. 5 are large breeds and all are moulting (2 RI Reds, 1 Sussex and 1 Americauna, 1 silkie). The silkie is the oldest. Historically they have all gotten along great over the last 2 years. Last april we lost a silkie to cocci. All of a sudden, when...
  14. Siyabonga Mama

    Does anyone know how to grow meal worms?

    I just went out and nearly fainted dead away from shock at the sight of (I thought) the world's ugliest chicken lurking among my flock! But apparently the scruffy bald look is in at this time of year. Who knew? In the past my girls have always molted with dignity! Anyway, apparently they...
  15. S

    What Is Going On With My Hen??

    **Edited the chaos of the repeating post** So I got a 12 week old Buff Orphington pullet back in April. It only took her a couple weeks to start laying and quickly became the head hen of the flock. About a month ago, we went broody. But it started while my husband a I were away on vacation for...
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  16. S

    Crowing Hen?

    So I got a 12 week old Buff Orphington pullet back in April. It only took her a couple weeks to start laying and quickly became the head hen of the flock. About a month ago, we went broody. But it started while my husband a I were away on vacation for about 2 weeks and the 'feather baby sitter'...
  17. sooty and sweep

    Chickens haven’t laid for 6 months

    Hi I have two chickens, Who started moulting August last year so they stopped laying eggs. This took a while but they have finished now and they still haven’t started laying again. They have access to food, water, oyster shells and grit. Also one of them has had a dirty and poopyrear feathers...
  18. S

    Moult, picking, or something else?

    We have a very small flock of five chickens - two barred rocks, two light sussexes, and one black sex link. About two weeks ago, the black sex link was hit by a car and died. Since that time, the two barred rock hens have gotten patchy, and we figured that the stress of losing a member of the...
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