BALD BACKS ON 2 HENS, THOUGHT FROM ROO THEY HAD BEFORE I GOT EM, NOT MOLTING?DONT WANT THEM COLD?

[silkymom]

i was given these sexlink girls, i think they are a couple yrs old, 2 of em have bare back, should have come back by now, had em for 2 months,no molting i can see and no feathers chewed up, someones picking i think? i always had silk birds, never had probs, my roo isnt doing it, i do have heat in coop, so they are warm and still laying in freezing weather, ?????



they love green bean casserole and dinner rolls., heheh

 

[Happy Chooks]

Their bare backs are from overmating. They won't grow back in until they go through a molt.

 

[donrae]

Their bare backs are from overmating. They won't grow back in until they go through a molt.

x2

 

[Howlet]

my hen is going through Molt and shes not even a year yet O_O

 

[silkymom]

my roo just started breeding the girls a week ago, i got them that way, had them a month befor i got the young roo????? we had the roo a month before he crowed and started breeding?

 

[silkymom]

wow at this time of year i will get a molt? i guess your all right they came to me that way and 2 with bumblefoot i had to do surgery on, i hope feathers come back but i hate to have them molt in freezing weather, thanks