Help, one of my chickens have feathers!

[PurpleChicken]

Today I noticed one of my chickens had some feathers. It's
acting normal and eating and drinking. I'm just really worried
because I've never seen this before. Any suggestions?

 

[mlmadura]

Im still a fairly new chicken mom,but I'm confused....

Don't all chickens have feathers?

 

[redhen]

okay..calm down now..the first thing to do is..put on some bio-hazard equipment...(mask..gown..gloves)..whatever you do DO NOT touch the bird with your bare hands!...i hate to say it..but its going to have to be put down...but you cant touch it!!...i hope someone else chimes in to help here....and for god sakes man..DONT TOUCH IT!!

 

[Year of the Rooster]

Is this a joke or what????

 

[shelleyd2008]

No I have heard of these before. Does it have purple feathers? If so, It is a verrrrry rare breed, and you have a million dollar bird on your hands!!

If it has pinkd feathers, then I'm with redhen, don't touch it. Get a flame thrower or something to get rid of it ASAP!! May God be with you...

 

[KellyHM]

And make sure you separate it far, far, far away from all your other chickens!!

 

[Imp]

I had the same thing happen to all 5 of my chickens.

OMG then it spead to the cats

 

[shmooborp]

this is worse than i thought... you hole flock will have to be fumagated and restarted.. im sorry man.. so sorry

 

[KellyHM]

Imp - your CAT has FEATHERS?!?!?

 

[Year of the Rooster]

I don't get it! What's going on?! What's wrong with it?