Losing tail feathers

[hennotrooster]

My hen (who took the place of our lost roo) is now loosing her tail feathers. What can be causing this? Will scratch cause them to make a sound like a squeaky toy? Thanks

 

[Kevin565]

Could she be molting?

 

[PJ22]

My hens occasionally look like their tails have been bobbed. I wondered if they get broken off during mating. My rooster is big and a little clumsy. And that squeaky toy sound? Yes! My hens and rooster make that noise when they are eating scratch. I wondered if it was a sneeze...from that white dust in the scratch.

 

[Frizzle13]

Probably just moulting

 

[hennotrooster]

The squeaky sound is strange and my two older girls did not do this it is the younger ones that seem to make this noise. I almost wonder if the scratch is getting stuck in their throats and this is the way they clear it...maybe.

We no longer have a roo she started to shed her tail feathers a few days ago she now has one dark one left the rest a short soft feathers.

 

[hennotrooster]

I thought she might be molting but she started growing new pin feathers on her lower back so I thought the molting was over. Oh she seems to have a lot of fine white feathers poking through her darker feathers and the feathers around her neck are very shiny and new looking but her tail looks awful and the last 3 days she started to lay again. She is going through something.

Her sister lost most of her back feathers but they are almost all in now I can no longer see her skin

I was putting aloe vera on her because she was getting sunburned this was actually the only time that she let me catch her.