I was sick for a week(the dreaded flu) and now that I'm finally coming out of the haze....
NOOOOOO!!!!
My best Sumatra hen, Indira, Champion Large Fowl Hen and Best of Show Large Fowl AND Third overall poultry at Oregon State Fair, that I was going to take to the PNPA show in 2 weeks, has gone into an enormous moult!
She looks like a black Araucauna now(minus tufts)! She literally shed her entire tail, and her feathers are all loose and....
Indira, how could you? You have two weeks to grow back every single feather in perfect condition!
Is there anythign I can do to speed this process? If she lost all her feathers in week, it will surely take much longer to grow them back.....I've never paid attention with any of my other birds, mostly because my main showbirds are roosters, who don't tend to do the full body molt as often. Plus, they're frizzles, and nobody can tell anyway.
NOOOOOO!!!!
My best Sumatra hen, Indira, Champion Large Fowl Hen and Best of Show Large Fowl AND Third overall poultry at Oregon State Fair, that I was going to take to the PNPA show in 2 weeks, has gone into an enormous moult!
She looks like a black Araucauna now(minus tufts)! She literally shed her entire tail, and her feathers are all loose and....
Indira, how could you? You have two weeks to grow back every single feather in perfect condition!
Is there anythign I can do to speed this process? If she lost all her feathers in week, it will surely take much longer to grow them back.....I've never paid attention with any of my other birds, mostly because my main showbirds are roosters, who don't tend to do the full body molt as often. Plus, they're frizzles, and nobody can tell anyway.