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<\/a>Amber up close and chatting to me<\/p><\/div>\n
Amber’s neck is becoming more bare. Amber is easy to get a close up of because when I crouch down she runs over to me chatting away. It’s just a case of clicking before she is too close. She is always chatting and photos of her are often open beaked like this. I look at this photo and can almost hear her.<\/p>\n
<\/a>Honey is now also getting a bare neck<\/p><\/div>\n
<\/a>Dotty is getting her head plucked too<\/p><\/div>\n
The light patch on the back of her head is where she is losing feathers.<\/p>\n
This really saddens me as I felt I could just about bare her neck being plucked if she didn’t get her head plucked. Steve, my eldest son, did warn me that the most likely outcome was that the same pattern would just repeat itself.<\/p>\n
The awful thing is, that after just a few months of being fully feathered, they will probably have another year of being partly bare.<\/p>\n
<\/a>As before Pepper is intact except for a bare patch on her bottom<\/p><\/div>\n
<\/a>Bluebell has a bare neck<\/p><\/div>\n
<\/a>Pepper has a small bare patch on her bottom which I know from experience will get bigger<\/p><\/div>\n
<\/a>Bluebell has some of her head crest feathers broken<\/p><\/div>\n
It is also sad that Bluebell, as a crested bird, has no crest most of the time.<\/p>\n
I have been through all this before and know that there is nothing more I can do. The girls are happy and healthy and laying well and I know it doesn’t bother them, it only bothers me.<\/p>\n
On a lighter note little Honey laid three days in a row for the first time ever and Amber laid another hard shelled egg with only one missed day in between so it seems the little girls have really got the hang of egg laying now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I am so sad to see the girls getting gradually more and more plucked. Sadly last years pattern is repeating itself. Amber’s neck is becoming more bare. Amber is easy to get a close up of because when I crouch … Continue reading