Molting

These are some pictures of Freckles that I took and you can maybe see where she is molting more.  I would take better pictures, but Freckles is running from me and it's hard to catch her standing still.  

 

Molting and relaxing

Freckles, the chicken with barely any feathers, is molting.  The reason she doesn't have hardly any feathers is because after a hen goes broody, she will molt all of her feathers at the same time.  She will regrow them back, but it will take awhile.  Freckles walks backwards and staggers sideways and bumps into things because her feathers are gone and she gets off balance and it feels weird to her.  If you look under Freckle's belly, all the feathers are gone and it is just spikes from where the old feathers have fallen out.  The spikes really, really weird...like rubbing your hand on a porcupine with not very pointy quills. I will send an update on Freckles.  

Some of the other chickens in the pictures are molting, but not as bad as Freckles.  But some of the others are just cleaning, taking dust baths and relaxing. 

Freckles

Freckles has bin broody for 3 hole months!  Chickens are not supposed to go broody that long it's not good for them at all.  Her come is all pale and she's lost a pound or two from not eating.  Her is how I broke her from it....one day when she was outside for her 10 minet brake I closed the coop doors so no hen could get in the coop and that forced freckles to stay outside for a couple hours. Then I opens it back up so all hens could drink and eat. Of course freckles sat rite back down on her eggs.  I continued to do this for about 2 more days and on the third day when it was time for chickens to go to sleep freckles was on the roost with the others and has bin broken from it ever since. Yay!

Caroline

Caroline loves to play peoples.

 

 

Boomys snack

Chickens

This is Freckles.  She is the skinniest chicken in the whole coop other than the two silkies and Boomie (Mrs. Boomernickles).  We don't know how it happened, but apparently she cut her comb.  It bled and she started drinking it off the wall while she was on the roost.  Freckles can be very shy to other people, especially if she doesn't know them.  Once she gets to know them, she will let the person hold her. 

This is Rosie. She is laying her egg for the day, so she can go out and relax with the other chickens.  When other chickens are laying their eggs and Rosie has to lay too, she goes out of the coop and jumps on top of the nesting box lid and starts singing the chicken song so we think she's laid her egg.  If there's another hen inside the coop who has to lay her egg too, but the other chicken is still in the box, she chimes in on Rosie's song (she gets mad too because Rosie is mad).  Then the rest chime in.