So I'm wondering, how do you tell if it is plucking or molting? I read a few sites, but they all seemed to be about the first molt and not the years later molts(She is 9).
Rosie has been kind of sensitive for the past week or so, wanting to be fed like a baby and coddled. She has lost a little weight(still within healthy limit, but needs to not lose any more), but I attributed this to either the change in diet or the extreme heat we have been having.
Now she has a lot of random feathers coming out. She is a neck plucker, it is all I've ever seen her pluck, but what I'm seeing now is random and spread out. She lost a couple large feathers right before she started acting funny, now there are little feathers and medium feathers.
How do I know if she is molting? This is only my second summer with her and last year was a very mild summer(barely ever went over 90F, while normal summers easily get to 105F+ with humidity)... she lost a few feathers here and there and wasn't plucking, so I assumed she was shedding some old and growing some new.
This time it is a lot more, but we just came out of a heatwave. I'm wondering if this is a molt? If it is, I should be feeding her different, right? How do I know for sure? Also, any suggestions on foods to help? Should I be giving her egg?
Rosie has been kind of sensitive for the past week or so, wanting to be fed like a baby and coddled. She has lost a little weight(still within healthy limit, but needs to not lose any more), but I attributed this to either the change in diet or the extreme heat we have been having.
Now she has a lot of random feathers coming out. She is a neck plucker, it is all I've ever seen her pluck, but what I'm seeing now is random and spread out. She lost a couple large feathers right before she started acting funny, now there are little feathers and medium feathers.
How do I know if she is molting? This is only my second summer with her and last year was a very mild summer(barely ever went over 90F, while normal summers easily get to 105F+ with humidity)... she lost a few feathers here and there and wasn't plucking, so I assumed she was shedding some old and growing some new.
This time it is a lot more, but we just came out of a heatwave. I'm wondering if this is a molt? If it is, I should be feeding her different, right? How do I know for sure? Also, any suggestions on foods to help? Should I be giving her egg?