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Disease or just brooding? Yellow skin, refusing to eat...

Discussion in 'Chicken Behaviors and Egglaying' started by dianastar, May 17, 2009.

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  1. May 17, 2009 #1
    dianastar

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    I have a golden-laced cochin about 1 1/2 years old. About two weeks ago one of my hens wouldn't leave her nest box and we have no rooster. I thought she was brooding and she would leave after I collected the eggs, like my other hens do but she still sits in the coop not eating or drinking and today i noticed her usually gray skin had patch of featherless yellow skin on her back. What's going on with my chicken?
     
  3. May 17, 2009 #2
    debilorrah

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    She is right at the age to go through a full molt. Any minute now you will find a boatload of feathers in your coop.
     

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