NHello There,
It’s crazy around the coop these days. A ton of feathers are being lost. It really scared me when I went out to the chicken run to find feathers lying all over the ground. I quickly did a head count to make sure no one was eaten, that’s how many feathers were everywhere.
Red’s molting transformation. . . . .
Believe it or not, my Speckled Sussex, Red went from her beautiful feathered self in the picture on the left to this very naked girl on the right. This process happened in 2 days! She now has prickly new feathers coming out all over her body. All I want to do is pick her up and comfort her, but you are not supposed to handle them since molting is a painful process. If you have never heard of molting before, chickens do it every Fall. They lose feathers and grow new ones. They were young chickens last Fall so we only seen a little feather loss. Believe me, nothing to this extreme.
Close up of Red’s chest and the prickly new feathers poking out. Yikes! When the feathers grow out they look like a quill end that has a wax tip. The chicken will chew the wax tip off and the feather will fluff out. I’m so glad I don’t have feathers, lol.
I am feeding the flock some protein (scrambled eggs etc.) to help them with the molting process. Bunny is molting too (shown next to Red) but not nearly as bad as Red. Molting is different for different chicken breeds, from what I understand.
All I know it sure is an adventure being a chicken owner. Seems I learn something new about them every day.
On another note, today Russ is having surgery to take the heart monitor out of his chest, whoohoo! He is doing so well. Please send healing thoughts his way. 🙂 Also, if you like chickens send some also Red’s way, lol.
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