Help For My Frizzle Cochin - Feather Issues

[Syl2715]

She started losing a few feathers and then it progressed to this. Thought maybe the Roo was being too hard on her so we removed her and she is in her own little house. Now it is to the point her wings are completely bare and she looks like Edward Scissor Hands. She is still laying and eating. I give her crumbles and meal worms and clover and wild strawberries. She went in the sun today and I took the pic. She seems to love laying in the sun and stretching her wings out. Please advise if you know what I should do.

 

[AlleysChicks]

How old is she? She could be molting.

 

[Birds of a Feather]

Are those new feather shafts? If not, could she have feather mites?

 

[Kathy Golla]

Those are depluming mites.
Better get on it, that’s an advanced case.
See Twocrows’ post in this thread for treatment.
https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/feathers-being-eaten-mite.1051617/
You have to treat for 4-5 weeks, then there’s a chance you will have to retreat.
The bird won’t grow a new set of feathers until she molts in the fall, but she should stop breaking her feathers off with treatment.
Observe her carefully, if she has these symptoms best to just start proactive treatment.
https://poultrykeeper.com/external-problems/depluming-mites/

The way you can find out for sure if it’s depluming mites is to take her to a vet and have him do a skin scraping to identify the mites.

 

[Kathy Golla]

She could be molting too. Stress, illness and other factors can cause a molt, but that’s a hard molt.
With a molt you should see pin feathers growing in.
With depluming mites there won’t be new growth. Or rather the mites will eat the feathers as they grow in.

 

[Syl2715]

How old is she? She could be molting.

she's about 1 yr old

 

[Syl2715]

Those are depluming mites.
Better get on it, that’s an advanced case.
See Twocrows’ post in this thread for treatment.
https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/feathers-being-eaten-mite.1051617/
You have to treat for 4-5 weeks, then there’s a chance you will have to retreat.
The bird won’t grow a new set of feathers until she molts in the fall, but she should stop breaking her feathers off with treatment.
Observe her carefully, if she has these symptoms best to just start proactive treatment.
https://poultrykeeper.com/external-problems/depluming-mites/

The way you can find out for sure if it’s depluming mites is to take her to a vet and have him do a skin scraping to identify the mites.

Thank you so much for this information. I will get on it immediately. The Roo she was with did not show any symptoms.

 

[Brahma Chicken5000]

She may be a Frazzle, which is a Frizzle with two frizzle genes. @oldhenlikesdogs knows about them.
She looks quiete similar to my Frizzle (?) hen Jane.

 

[Kathy Golla]

Here is a super similar thread going on.
Molt from illness
Molt from being broody
Early molt
Depluming mites
All are candidates

https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/feathers-are-just-awful.1252248/#post-20095305

 

[Kathy Golla]

@Brahma Chicken5000 is that a molt? Looks similar to the OPs hen.
Oldhenlikes dogs: thoughts?