Molting or Illness

[clarke2001]

My salmon faverolle is a spastic chicken that seems to always run in a zig zag formation. One day I realize the beard this breed has started to fall out and now she is acting more slow then normal. Is this molting or is she sick?

 

[Crazy for Chickens!]

I would be concerned. Beards don't normally fall out, I don't think.

 

[Chickassan]

Pictures please? Hard to tell without those since something is always going on with faverolles beards and they're already pretty slow. Not picking on the breed, I just have some too.

 

[clarke2001]

Here are 2 pictures of her.

 

[Chickassan]

She's got new beard coming in, so it looks like she molted. How many others is she with and what kind are they? I'm thinking if it isn't molt she got plucked "happens alot with faverolles" but she looks healthy. How old is this girl?

 

[clarke2001]

I have 4 in total. A black Orpington, a Plymouth Rock, and a golden comet. She is 9 months old.

 

[Chickassan]

She molted then, faverolles go through quite a few beard/neck molts and they act a little off when it happens. Don't worry, normal for the breed.

I have 4 in total. A black Orpington, a Plymouth Rock, and a golden comet. She is 9 months old.