Losing breast feathers

[firsttimehenmom]

Yep cold water helps them cool off faster which will help molting. when it gets 85 degrees Fahrenheit or above i give my chickens watermelon, they love it and it cools them down

Mine will not eat anything but their food and cracked corn. They are afraid of everything else. I just put cherry tomatoes in the other day and they moved them around a bit but never ate them! They are super picky. Thank you for all your help tonight, I appreciate it!

 

[Wyorp Rock]

Can you show a better picture of the skin where the feathers are missing?
Likely she has plucked the feathers out, but seeing the bare area would be helpful.

And yes...she does have Bumblefoot. Here's some reading for you http://www.the-chicken-chick.com/bumblefoot-causes-treatment-warning/

 

[firsttimehenmom]

Can you show a better picture of the skin where the feathers are missing?
Likely she has plucked the feathers out, but seeing the bare area would be helpful.” [\QUOTE]

Ok so here’s an update...it was the wrong chicken losing feathers. The other chicken is absolutely fine other than the foot issue which I have bought everything to try and fix it without doing surgery so hopefully I can help her, thank you for the information. So I noticed yesterday my other chicken (I only have 2), had weird tail feathers, so I picked her up and was checking her out. She is just coming out of being broody for a second time in two months. She is about almost a year and a half. I checked out her tail and it looked really dark but she wouldn’t let me touch it so today after researching a ton I was convinced she had fly strike so I gave her a nice epsom salt bath and realized no fly strike, I shouldn’t have freaked out about that. I do think she is molting. She did go through a mini molt last year in December around her neck, is it possible that her backside could be molting? Here are the pictures from around the areas I noticed, I think those are pin feathers that are coming in but maybe not? That is dirt on her feathers and not mites, I did examine that thoroughly. Thanks for your help!