{"id":29798,"date":"2019-09-16T17:57:47","date_gmt":"2019-09-16T17:57:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?p=29798"},"modified":"2019-09-16T17:57:47","modified_gmt":"2019-09-16T17:57:47","slug":"a-moulting-flock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?p=29798","title":{"rendered":"A moulting flock"},"content":{"rendered":"

Over the last week feathers have been dropping from the girls in heaps. I spend more time picking up feathers than poop picking. As the girls move feathers waft from them.<\/p>\n

Some of the girls are looking more tatty than others though. The three bigger girls don’t look bad at the moment. Speckles has had a slow moult this year and she looks good. Her feather dropping has slowed right down now so I think that she may be through it now.<\/p>\n

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Speckles<\/p><\/div>\n

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Speckles from the other side<\/p><\/div>\n

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Ebony<\/p><\/div>\n

You can just see a feather falling from under Ebony’s tail.<\/p>\n

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Ebony from the other side<\/p><\/div>\n

Ebony has retained the white on her head and some white tips to her wing and tail feathers.<\/p>\n

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Flame<\/p><\/div>\n

Flame looks good at the moment but today was the first day that I found lots of her feathers so I suspect she may soon start to look tatty.<\/p>\n

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Cinnamon<\/p><\/div>\n

Cinnamon looks good and her comb is a lovely red colour. She was dropping feathers and had taken a break from laying but has now stopped dropping feathers and is laying again.<\/p>\n

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Jasmine<\/p><\/div>\n

Jasmine doesn’t appear to be dropping any feathers and is still laying. She also has a lovely red comb. She is so curious, look at how she stretches forward to see me with the camera.<\/p>\n

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Smoke<\/p><\/div>\n

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Smoke again<\/p><\/div>\n

It has only been nine days since Smoke came out of her long broody spell and yet she laid an egg yesterday. I have been finding piles of her grey feathers and yet she doesn’t actually look any different apart from the white carotene on her head.<\/p>\n

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Spangle<\/p><\/div>\n

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Spangle again<\/p><\/div>\n

Spangle has messy breast feathers but that is the only sign that she is moulting. She too looks at me with great interest.<\/p>\n

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Salmon<\/p><\/div>\n

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Salmon again<\/p><\/div>\n

Salmon is moulting quite heavily. She has pins on the back of her head and her breast feathers look messy too.<\/p>\n

And then we come to Marmite! Marmite is moulting the heaviest of all the girls and is looking very tatty.<\/p>\n

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Marmite<\/p><\/div>\n

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Marmite again<\/p><\/div>\n

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A very tatty Marmite<\/p><\/div>\n

Look at the gap in her tail feathers. She does have plenty of pins though on her head and neck and throat.<\/p>\n

Poor Marmite! I feel for her but she will soon be looking beautiful again I am sure. This is the first time the amigos have moulted so it’s a new experience. It is also Ebony’s first moult too.<\/p>\n

They have a bit of a loss of confidence when they are moulting. It’s a good thing to get this over now though while it’s still warm. Hopefully they will all be fully feathered before we go into winter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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