Derperella, the (weird) Faverolles, & Friends

[Nambroth]

How do you secure the fleece molt cape? I have a little porcelain d'uccle who is having the WOrst molt ever!

It is mostly a rectangle of fleece with rounded corners, and two slots cut where her wings go. I just slide her wings into the slots. If you look up chicken apron patterns it is much the same-- I just prefer to use fleece when they are molting, because I am not looking to protect against stompy rooster feet. I want the fabric to be soft so it doesn't chafe new pinfeathers. I once had a normal hen apron/protector on Chickadee a year ago... it is the type made of heavier canvas cloth to protect against sharp rooster feet... and it chafed her pinfeathers to the point of where it was doing more harm than good during the molting season.

I wouldn't use the cape at all except the others (mostly Moa) have learned that pinfeathers are full of blood and taste good!

 

[artsyrobin]

i found when i have a very uncomfortable hen, a warm bath soothes the prickly pinfeathers, i remember donna my rhode island red had handfuls of feathers coming off, i thought she was sick! put her in the tub, she came out almost naked!

Love the updates and that little roo is stunning!

 

[NovaAman]

Well.. they do dip the chickens in a hot bath to get the feathers off faster... SO, in essence, you just helped her molt faster... LOL. Poor chickie.

 

[artsyrobin]

i had pictures somewhere of the tub full of feathers, poor girl!

 

[Nambroth]

Well.. they do dip the chickens in a hot bath to get the feathers off faster... SO, in essence, you just helped her molt faster... LOL. Poor chickie.

Haha oh dear! Not quite the same, but it's funny!

 

[Tacampbell1973]

Wow I have finally read this whole thread! I love derp, this was an emotional rollercoaster, I laughed a lot and cried too! So I'm a derpy lover too!!

Wow, I have tried and tried to read it all but just cant. I have to take it in in segments. I was half afraid to keep reading for fear that towards the end Im gonna find out she has passed on. I have considered copy and pasting it just for my own reading so that I can read the stories straight through without all the comments, but sometimes the comments are every bit as funny as the story. She is quite a bird, and fudlady is quite a person.

 

[Bens-Hens]

I love this thread Got to go back, I have fallen behind lately.

 

[drumstick diva]

any updates on Baron and Mildred ? Pictures would be very nice too.

 

[Nambroth]

Sure! I gotta wait for another halfway clear day to get them outside and get some photos. It's been rainy and gross.

They are doing well, though, and growing! I hope they stop peeping soon so that they can go outside with the big girls... both of them are already bigger than Derp and Willow!

 

[kitmarlowescot2]

Has Baron made any practice crows yet, probably sounding like a yoddling cat ? And bigger, or not your bully Kua I think is her name, will still probably attack them, Cochins maybe be large but their gentle personality isn't always good when they have to deal with an aggressive bullying hen.