egg residue on feathers

[SurferchickinSB]

Thanks! So the feather loss is from the brooding patch, and not the egg mess? That is so helpful to know! I guess I'd never had a reason to look that closely at her tummy under all of that fluff, so I had never noticed it before.

 

[SurferchickinSB]

My BCMarans has one of those and I only noticed it because I was drying her after I gave her a bath. I was really shocked and I thought it was mites or something and then I thought maybe somebody beat her up, but it didn’t look red, skin just looks like baby skin. I looked it up on the Internet and found out it was called a brooding patch. I thought that was kind of odd because she lays an egg almost every day but I have never seen her sit on them, so I never thought she was broody. I guess it must be an instinctual thing that some chickens do whether they are brooding or not.