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Totally not on recent subjects but I just thought this was cute. Elvis has really been wooing the young girls. Jasmine and Daisy are always by his side. He tidbits to them and they come running. He will hold a blade of grass or whatever in his beak as an offering and let them peck it from his beak. It's just so cute! He is more gentle with the girls. He definitely has some flaws but I like how he treats the girls. I think he is going through a molt? He is losing his tail feathers. I can't wait to see the new ones he gets in. They are looking quite pitiful and stumpy right now. When a chicken goes through a molt, do they only lose certain feathers and does it differ between male and female? Just curious.
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CrazyCrttr75 said:
Need something dark that will attract and hold heat. Black tape or something? I'm not sure how hot tape can get. Is there any kind of adhesive dark rubber type material that can go on the outside. I'm just thinking off the top of my head. Some times you just have to brainstorm. I'm sure you will come up with something. And when you do, you'll be like, "Omgosh! Why didn't I think of this sooner?!?" Isn't that how it always seems to go? LOL!
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Not hot enough, no. It's seriously frigid here during the winter.
The solutions mentioned do help some... but water at 15*F is still just as frozen as water at -40*F.


I've brainstormed many times over the five years I have had ducks and chickens. Alas, a solution has not presented itself; at some point, the laws of energy exchange simply take over.
 
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CrazyCrttr75 said:
Totally not on recent subjects but I just thought this was cute. Elvis has really been wooing the young girls. Jasmine and Daisy are always by his side. He tidbits to them and they come running. He will hold a blade of grass or whatever in his beak as an offering and let them peck it from his beak. It's just so cute! He is more gentle with the girls. He definitely has some flaws but I like how he treats the girls. I think he is going through a molt? He is losing his tail feathers. I can't wait to see the new ones he gets in. They are looking quite pitiful and stumpy right now. When a chicken goes through a molt, do they only lose certain feathers and does it differ between male and female? Just curious.
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Awwww soooo cute!! And they lose them all eventually, they get completely new ones and look great for a while after LOL, but it takes a while to lose them all. From what I have read, some do it really slowly, like a feather or two at a time and you wouldn’t ever know they’re molting, others lose a ton at once and look really naked for a while LOL just depends. And some start at the head/neck, others the back end. Although I think most start near the head. Although I think it’s maybe a little early for a molt? It usually starts late summer early fall or as the daylight starts to decrease. Could something else be stressing him out or maybe the girls are plucking them out? Also how old is he? I think from what I read they usually don’t have the first molt until around 18 months.
 
KDOGG331 said:
Awwww soooo cute!! And they lose them all eventually, they get completely new ones and look great for a while after LOL, but it takes a while to lose them all. From what I have read, some do it really slowly, like a feather or two at a time and you wouldn’t ever know they’re molting, others lose a ton at once and look really naked for a while LOL just depends. And some start at the head/neck, others the back end. Although I think most start near the head. Although I think it’s maybe a little early for a molt? It usually starts late summer early fall or as the daylight starts to decrease. Could something else be stressing him out or maybe the girls are plucking them out? Also how old is he? I think from what I read they usually don’t have the first molt until around 18 months.
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Mine just started molting.
 
KDOGG331 said:
Awwww soooo cute!! And they lose them all eventually, they get completely new ones and look great for a while after LOL, but it takes a while to lose them all. From what I have read, some do it really slowly, like a feather or two at a time and you wouldn’t ever know they’re molting, others lose a ton at once and look really naked for a while LOL just depends. And some start at the head/neck, others the back end. Although I think most start near the head. Although I think it’s maybe a little early for a molt? It usually starts late summer early fall or as the daylight starts to decrease. Could something else be stressing him out or maybe the girls are plucking them out? Also how old is he? I think from what I read they usually don’t have the first molt until around 18 months.
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Hmmm... Then I am confused then. I got him Sept.8, 2018, according to the pic that I took of them. So not quite a yr old yet. Almost 10months old. He hasn't been fighting with Bowie or anything. I haven't seen the girls pecking at him in any way. Not sure why he would pull his own feathers out. I haven't seen him obsessively "grooming" or anything. And I haven't seen him in any kind of distress, other than this heat that we've had. Can heat stress be a factor? Maybe I need to give him a good look over. Idk then. :idunno I just assumed it was some kind of a rooster slow molt type of thing.
 

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