Silkie help!

[Little Buffs]

My silkie looks as if she has lost some feathers around her neck. I was wondering if this is normal if she has something wrong with her?

 

[Poultry parent]

Do you have a rooster?

 

[Little Buffs]

No no rooster, it looks as if she's pulled them out recently. She was with a rooster when we got her a month ago but her feathers were in tact

 

[Poultry parent]

Can you get a better picture of her neck?

 

[Little Buffs]

Will do it tomorrow and post it

 

[Little Buffs]

 

[Little Buffs]

It looks like moulting but that usually happens late summer?

 

[Poultry parent]

Molting does usually happen very late in the summer, though I've had it happen at odd
Times. Does it seem painful or red at all?

 

[Little Buffs]

It does seem a little painful and the bottom on the feather roots are a little red.

 

[Poultry parent]

The red in the feather shafts is normal, it's just blood supplying the new feathers