Losing feathers - is she lonely?
- From: Bitstreams <bitstream7@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2007 17:06:10 -0000
My Blue Orpington Hen is about point-of-lay and I'm worried about her
because she's losing (or pulling) her feathers. There are no obvious
bald patches, just lots of feathers on the lawn.
She has had a stressful few weeks. Her sister (I hatched them both)
died suddenly and spectacularly of some sort of seizure and two weeks
later we moved house, changing Blossom's coop at the same time.
So she is alone, although she sits close to the bars of the rabbit
hutch and seems to have developed a friendship there. Do Chickens pull
feathers like parrots do or could it be something else (like losing
baby feathers for adult ones?)
There's room in the coop for another hen if that's the answer
Simon
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