My flock are all pretty much fully feathered again

This winter the moult seems to have taken forever but I think it’s probably because I have eight girls this winter as opposed to five last year.

Over the last three or four days I have been trying to collate some photos of each flock member to show where they are at during this moult but they haven’t been terribly cooperative. I have many ridiculous shots so thought I might start with one out take.

An out take

Yes, this is what I am up against. Just as I click the girls either turn away, rush too close (Emerald) or simply jump (Peaches). As it was such an action shot I couldn’t resist including this one out take!

The other thing that I realised when looking through the shots was how together Peaches and Barley are. Every set of shots had them totally synchronised unlike any of the other flock members. I decided that will be my next post as there are so many photos.

But I will start off with my star pupil in front of a camera.

Barley is always up for a close up

Peaches

Peaches is not the attention seeking poser that Barley is so this is the best I could get. Being the youngsters they only had their baby moult so are looking pretty pristine.

Sparkle’s now fluffy bottom

Sparkle was the last to moult but isn’t looking quite so shabby now

Topaz still has a ragged tail

Topaz is also two tone. Her new feathers have come in much lighter than before and the darker wing feathers are the old ones which are still falling out.

Amber is still missing a few neck feathers

I was so frustrated that Topaz pulled out some of Amber’s pins from her neck but she is looking much better and only has a small gap now. I think I can see some new pins on her neck so am now quite hopeful that she may actually become fully feathered after all.

Amber has all her head feathers

Honey has all her feathers and her tail feathers have grown

Emerald is still losing feathers

Toffee looks good

Toffee seems to be completely finished whereas whenever I think Emerald is finished she loses another wave of feathers.

All in shot

I couldn’t resist ending with this one as once again despite all doing their own thing all the girls are in shot together and they are all looking so good now. It’s great to see all the new feathers and very special to me this year after the feather plucking problems of the past. I am so proud of my beautiful girls.