Most of the girls are not looking bad now that they are nearly through their moult. Honey though, was the last to begin her moult and she is looking the most shabby of all.
Poor little Honey
She has an almost bare face
Her neck is full of quills
She does look a bit of a sight
Honey seems to look worse this year than I ever remember her looking so I looked back at how she looked last year. It was then that I realised that it’s because it’s the first year she has moulted from being fully feathered. Last year was after we had had the plucking problem and her head and neck had been plucked bare. Therefore there were no feathers to fall out and I could see the pin feathers emerging as tiny dots to start with. They seemed to take forever to grow back in.
This year the pins have been coming through as the neck feathers have been dropping out so the pin feathers are much more advanced. It looks messy but is a good thing as they will soon open out into lovely new feathers and she will be back to normal more quickly.
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Oh, I hate the molt. It’s so hard on me. At least Honey is mostly covered. But I totally agree, those pin feathers look like they must hurt.
She does look a mess but at least there are no totally bare patches. The pins seem to take so long to open though and she looks odd with no tail, although it is just starting to grow.