Silkie molting?

[Matt0chick0love]

We have a white silkie named salt, she has no feathers on her head and neck because a turkey got her, but now all I see are her feathers everywhere, and when I pick her up, more feathers. I thought it was my other silkie peppa that was pulling them out but she's just loosing them.

Is she molting, or something else. Yesterday night I put a few fertile mille fleur eggs under her because the mille fleur was pecking at them like it was food, and I didn't want her to eat them, because she wasnt broody yet. Will salt continue to sit on the eggs, or do the same thing as the mille fleur?

 

[Whittni]

If salt is broody, she'll pick her own feathers out to better warm-up the eggs and for moisture. If she stays on the nest for a few days and doesn't come off she's likely broody, she should also poof up when you approach her. Molting starts happening right about this time of the year, later summer-fall so a molt is also possible. Maybe post a video of her?

 

[Matt0chick0love]

Well she's not really picking them out, she's itching herself (I saw a few Mosquitos around her the other day) and she gets feathers in her mouth, and when I pick her up she leaves feathers all over my hands and arms, so right now it could go either way. I just hope she's broody, because we don't have a rooster, and we got the Mille fleur recently, and the day we got her she was with a rooster, so she's laying fertile eggs, and once she's done laying fertile eggs, she's done because our town doesnt allow roosters. We're seeing if we can get lucky and get a few chicks off her, because she has raised chicks before, they were there with her when we picked her up. I definitely appreciate all of the help I can get because we're new to chickens, and especially broody hens. I'll see if I can upload a video off my iPad and onto a computer.