Help! Featherless Chicken!

[SuperChickenDude327]

I have a chicken I call Scruffy, 'cause she has NO feathers. What can I do about it? I'll post pics later, but she has little nubs instead of feathers. That's how it's been since the summer.

 

[ChickenCanoe]

she could be a slow moulter?
Separate her a few hours a day and give lots of protein. A flock raiser like 20-27% protein, canned tuna, yogurt, BOSS.

Check her for mites, worms. Moulting birds are extra susceptible to parasites.

 

[Tiramisu]

How old is she? And where are the areas where feathers are missing, or does she not have any feathers at all?

 

[SuperChickenDude327]

Pretty much all her left side is devoid of feathers. And she's only around a year and a half old.

 

[SuperChickenDude327]

A picture of her left side, pretty much looked like this since July.

 

[stormylady]

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One of my silkies was like that ( Lily), I thought she was getting picked on but she never showed any blood on her so...... now at about 1 1/2 years old she is finially getting her feathers in, she has never laid an egg or crowed and she is starting to look like a Roo

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[Gypsi]

I can give my moulting hens tuna? yeah - bought 2 cases when that reactor melted down. (the price of yogurt has eliminated that treat - even the price of milk to make it is too much!

 

[GoldenSparrow]

do you have a rooster?

 

[SuperChickenDude327]

No roo, just 3 other hens. I let them free range when I'm home, and she's pretty high in the pecking order, just one below the top hen.

 

[Sooner]

What do you normally feed?