So my 2 1/2 year old Black Australorp, Bagheera, has never molted and has never stopped laying. For awhile there, she looked the Rainbow Fish (children’s book) with her random shiny new feathers mixed in with the older, duller ones. Now her head and neck are nice and shiny and new. However, her “skirt”, as I like to call it, has lots of bald areas and no pin feathers. All over the sides of her abdomen, down below her wings, is bald. The skin does not appear to be irritated.
Bagheera seems super healthy otherwise. Lays consistently, high in pecking order, nice red comb, not too skinny, not fat... she does have a bad habit of picking Margo’s back feathers, however.
What could cause this? Could she possibly be in the world’s longest, slowest ongoing molt and eventually these will fill back in?
Here she was in August, but she looks about the same now. See her tattered tail and side feathers, but nice neck feathers?
Bagheera seems super healthy otherwise. Lays consistently, high in pecking order, nice red comb, not too skinny, not fat... she does have a bad habit of picking Margo’s back feathers, however.
What could cause this? Could she possibly be in the world’s longest, slowest ongoing molt and eventually these will fill back in?
Here she was in August, but she looks about the same now. See her tattered tail and side feathers, but nice neck feathers?
