Question for you awesome, well knowledge chicken folks. I have a sex link that doesn't have many feathers around her vent and her chest. I do have other birds molting, and they are doing fine, some lost a TON of feathers, others barely noticeable. Most went through it fairly quickly, 3 weeks to a month I'd say. Well, this sex link has had a bare bottom I'd say since the beginning of May at the very least. I didn't know she didn't have chest (more abdomen area I guess) feathers until today when I gave her a thorough looking over. I assumed it was molting, but geez, it's been forever and VERY little regrowth. She never lost any on her neck or other areas. She has never been broody, she is towards the top of the pecking order and doesn't really get pecked at much. I looked her over head to toe and I can't find any bugs on her. She has a small what I'd call raw area on her that I'm assuming is from being bare and rubbing on things, it's not infected, just red. She has a few bumps that are raised and red near her rear area, maybe just from the pin feathers. Would you assume this is a molt? If it were mites or something wouldn't some other chickens show signs? If it were a molt wouldn't she have some regrowth in this amount of time? I've tried googling it, but I'm just finding things about molting and mites. Anything else out there cause this? I have raised their protein in the last week to see if that will help. I did put DE on her today.
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