Honey and Amber’s pin feathers are rapidly growing on their head and neck. I can’t wait to see them with their necks feathered at last.
Honey and Amber have lots of pin feathers on their head and neck
It looks like they will soon have feathered necks at last
On the photo above you can see where Honey, on the left, has had a peck to her comb and above her eye from Honey and Amber’s last spat. Honey has maintained her position above Amber though.
Close up of Amber’s neck
Close up of Honey’s neck
You can see one of Honey’s pins just starting to open into a little black feather. These girls will soon look beautiful again.
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Clovers pin feathers around her neck are coming through already which is good . From what I have read there are two types of feather loss , chickens who lose theirs slowly and others that lose them nearly all at once. Clover who now looks like a feather duster instead of her usual beautiful self is the second type and her pin feathers seem to be coming through nearly as soon as others are lost.
All of mine have lost masses of feathers followed by loads of pin feathers except for Sparkle. She is losing just a few feathers a day and still laying although she has slowed down. Her eggs have also got smaller. The small egg that I was unsure about was her egg and she has laid more like it since. I almost wish she would lose more feathers so that her fluffy bottom would come back.
Honey and Amber have very few tail feathers left at the moment.
They will look beautiful; it’s great when those pins reveal their treasure! Bella and Grayzie, who looked desperate a fortnight ago, are now far more presentable since their neck feathers have come in. My welsummers have both stopped laying and are moulting, but in a much slower and more ‘dignified’ way. Despite the weather and time of year my silkie, Cotton, is now broody again! Hardly any eggs this week.
I love it when the pins start to open. I keep saying they will look beautiful again and my husband says they actually look worse at this stage, a bit alien looking! Sparkle had been laying four eggs a week but only two this week so eggs have almost dried up altogether. Her eggs are tiny too but she is just beginning to get some pins on her bare bottom.