beatriceanddaisy
In the Brooder
Experienced chicken people - do you see anything alarming in these photos?
We got this RIR about 3 weeks ago from My Pet Chicken as a 6-week "started pullet" so she's now about 9 weeks old. She's always looked a little scraggly. She hates being picked up but a week after we got her we did a thorough inspection and didn't see any sign of pests or diseases on her body or legs. She had white flakes on her feathers which I read was due to new feather growth. However, 2 weeks later and she still doesn't look that different. These photos are from yesterday. She's eating and drinking fine, poop looks normal, energy seems fine.
We bought two other chickens from MPC along with her (seen in the photos) and neither of them appear to have the same issue. So I'm hoping its really slow molting but I'm brand new to chickens, so I wanted to run it by BYC.
Thank you so much!
We got this RIR about 3 weeks ago from My Pet Chicken as a 6-week "started pullet" so she's now about 9 weeks old. She's always looked a little scraggly. She hates being picked up but a week after we got her we did a thorough inspection and didn't see any sign of pests or diseases on her body or legs. She had white flakes on her feathers which I read was due to new feather growth. However, 2 weeks later and she still doesn't look that different. These photos are from yesterday. She's eating and drinking fine, poop looks normal, energy seems fine.
We bought two other chickens from MPC along with her (seen in the photos) and neither of them appear to have the same issue. So I'm hoping its really slow molting but I'm brand new to chickens, so I wanted to run it by BYC.
Thank you so much!