[video] 1 chicken looking haggard.. molting?

[ErikTande]

This happened very suddenly, basically overnight. When I came out yesterday morning to let the flock out there were feathers everywhere and one of my chickens looked like this. She looked fine the day before. Is she getting picked on? Molting?

Should I do anything about it? I'm in Colorado, it's fairly warm here (usually 30s or so).

Here's a vid:

 

[PirateGirl]

It's hard to see in the video, but I think I can see pin feathers coming in on the back of the neck, so she's likely just molting. Some seem to drop a few feathers at a time, others lose them in clumps overnight! Make sure she has a high protein feed and she should be just fine. If she is just missing lots of feathers and you do not see evidence of new ones growing in, then you might have a problem... something like a predator attack where they are grabbed and freak out could cause the loss of a clump of feathers, but there would not be new ones growing in already if this was the case.

 

[aart]

Everything @PirateGirl said.

Look for pin feathers.
How old is she?

 

[staceyj]

That looks like a molt.
Her comb says she’s not currently laying. She looks like my welsummers did 6 weeks ago!
If this is her second (or subsequent) Autumn the timing is right.

(although some birds do molt the first fall/winter, it’s more common for a big molt around 18 months or so of age.)

If you can handle her gently, check her underneath, and lift her feathers near the base of her neck to look at her skin.
I’m pretty positive you’ll see a virtual porcupine of pin feathers coming in.

 

[Wyorp Rock]

It's hard to see in the video, but I think I can see pin feathers coming in on the back of the neck, so she's likely just molting. Some seem to drop a few feathers at a time, others lose them in clumps overnight! Make sure she has a high protein feed and she should be just fine. If she is just missing lots of feathers and you do not see evidence of new ones growing in, then you might have a problem... something like a predator attack where they are grabbed and freak out could cause the loss of a clump of feathers, but there would not be new ones growing in already if this was the case.

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