Today I visited Jackie’s flock, we collected some greens from the allotment for our girls and then she visited my flock. Jackie had sent me a photo of Blossom (used to be my Bluebell) during her first really heavy moult. I had never seen her looking like this before. Jackie said it was a vast improvement from how she looked a week or so earlier.
Blossom is four years old and has laid through her first three winters without a proper break or a full moult. This winter she stopped laying and moulted big time. I took my camera with me when I took Jackie back home.
Bluebell is so shy that I struggled to get a photo of her and only managed one of her trying to escape behind a bush.
Bluebell has moulted and got her feathers back in
Blossom and Chelsea
Poor Blossom looks very shabby but it is Chelsea’s first winter and she is looking fabulous. She has a big red comb and perfect feathers.
A tatty looking Blossom
Blossom and Chelsea
They enjoy some greens while Bluebell is too shy to join in in my presence
It is so odd to see her looking like this but she does have rows of pristine tiny feathers on her back and she will soon be looking beautiful again. She also seems a lot more ginger on the front of her neck but as she was intent on eating greens I couldn’t get a shot of this.
The next photos I put on here will be of Blossom looking back to her glorious best I am sure. What these poor girls have to go through to get their new feathers! It is funny how they all moult in their own way. It was really good to have a catch up.
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Oh poor Blossom , she looks so neglected but as you know Carol she certainly is not. A few weeks ago not knowing she was about to moult she was so poorly and not eating I was about yo take her to the vet.
She now getting her new feathers and eating and drinking again .
Roll on Spring .
They all moult so differently and for some it really takes it out of them. I think it’s probably because she hasn’t moulted fully before that it’s been so hard on her. I know, of course, that she is in the best of hands and know how worried you were about her. She will soon be beautiful again and I agree, roll on spring.