.........Last Updated: 18 March 2014.........

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Winter 2010

Molting

Before she started to molt.

She lost her tail feathers first.

As you can see,  she's lost most of her feathers and you can see her new feathers are coming in nicely.

Of course,  the temperature has fallen to the high 30s and low 40s.  I placed her in a cage and had a heat lamp going during the day.  She was shivering this morning so knew I had to do something.

Since I hadn't fixed a proper heating shield,  I put back a 100 watt bulb and will tomorrow find my shield and  fix something for her so keep her warm.

Some of the chicken have lost their tails and other feathers around their bodies but haven't lost as much as the chicken shown above.

The youngest  ones may have lost a few feathers but it has not been noticeable as you can see by the chickens shown below..

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