My lovely yellow goldens.

[ChikaInu]

Someone is clearly influencing your mind!

Living in there rent free.

 

[ChikaInu]

Caught him in the bath for once! Usually the girls are a lot more into their dirt than Prim. He looks a bit bothered.

 

[ChikaInu]

And even the girls new feathers have a bit more of a yellow tint to them - though I seem to remember the same from last year and wonder if the old ones are simply a bit drained of colour through the seasons.

 

[007Sean]

And even the girls new feathers have a bit more of a yellow tint to them - though I seem to remember the same from last year and wonder if the old ones are simply a bit drained of colour through the seasons.

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Did this one lay eggs? Usually if they start getting any colored plumage, it means they have a damaged ovary!

 

[ChikaInu]

Did this one lay eggs? Usually if they start getting any colored plumage, it means they have a damaged ovary!

All my girls laid eggs and I'm not worried, they just seem to grow out like that and then fade. This was them last year with their new feathers:

 

[007Sean]

All my girls laid eggs and I'm not worried, they just seem to grow out like that and then fade. This was them last year with their new feathers:

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Ok, just letting you know that when a hen starts getting male colored plumage, it usually means that they have an ovary that has gotten damaged or some other type of reproductive problem with their ovaries. Here's a photo of one of my hens that has lost her ovaries, I don't know how but she has lost them!

 

[ChikaInu]

Ok, just letting you know that when a hen starts getting male colored plumage, it usually means that they have an ovary that has gotten damaged or some other type of reproductive problem with their ovaries. Here's a photo of one of my hens that has lost her ovaries, I don't know how but she has lost them!
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Oh yes if that happened it would be different! Mine just have a slight change of yellow tint.

I believe some chickens do this if kept in an all female flock as well?

 

[ChikaInu]

Prim is back to displaying! Didn't get the memo that breeding season is over. Looking good though, and he isn't at all as intense as he was this spring. Thank goodness!

 

[ChikaInu]

So I guess I'll find another egg tomorrow. She just won't stop!

 

[Zenmonkey]

I just got another egg from a dark throat a couple days ago. They're stretching the season a bit!