Keeperofmunchkins
Songster
I've noticed that my lavender Barbu d'Anvers hen, who is almost two years old, has frayed and ragged looking feathers all around her torso. Her head and tail are less affected. The individual feathers are frayed and somewhat dirty looking but she is not missing feathers. She had quite a hard moult earlier this year and i believe her feathers did not look like this, or at least not as bad, before the moult.
What could be the cause? She is the only one affected in my flock of 8 which includes one rooster. They free range during daylight hours in my spacious unkempt yard and are fed 19% protein grower pellets with oyster shell on the side plus occasional treats.
She is quite low on the pecking order so there is a chance the others are damaging her feathers but it doesn't look like that kind of issue to me. She is currently laying but has always been a poor layer, producing about one or two weeks per week. She has only gone broody once, which is unusual for a belgian bantam, and she also had a spate of crowing on and off for while last winter and spring.
Please ignore pinkish stains under her beak in the one photo, she has been eating blackberries from the bushes.
What could be the cause? She is the only one affected in my flock of 8 which includes one rooster. They free range during daylight hours in my spacious unkempt yard and are fed 19% protein grower pellets with oyster shell on the side plus occasional treats.
She is quite low on the pecking order so there is a chance the others are damaging her feathers but it doesn't look like that kind of issue to me. She is currently laying but has always been a poor layer, producing about one or two weeks per week. She has only gone broody once, which is unusual for a belgian bantam, and she also had a spate of crowing on and off for while last winter and spring.
Please ignore pinkish stains under her beak in the one photo, she has been eating blackberries from the bushes.
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