My 2 year old Rhode Island island is loosing feathers, handfuls at a time. Shes in a enclosed coop with a covered run no ther chickens with her but have 6 silkies next to her. Went to feed/water her this a.m. And there are tons of feathers everywhere and I picked her up and she is molting but wow! Feathers just fall all over when you pet her! I hope I didn't do something that hurt her! We live in michigan and its been cold 10s 20s so I read to give crushed red pepper in there food so I've been doing that and added nurti drench a few drops to her water. I've been cooking her eggs for breakfast and she's been eating all normal chicken food except the last 2 days we've been giving her medicated crumble because our feed store ran out of food. She's also had apple cider vinegar crumble and molasses a mash for the last few days too! She seems to be crouching a bit when she walks, she's gone through a molt before but not like this. It's also warmed back up to high 40s! Don't know what to do she's just not herself! Please any help! ( hope I didn't post this twice having trouble). Also she hasn't laid an ehh in over a week, I thought it was the change in weather! I also think her comb/wattles aren't as pretty red as they usually are!
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