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I've accorted the fact that we have tatty and threadbare chickens but its bloody cold out there now, won't they all drop dead without a full feathery body?

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ladytophamhatt · 29/10/2008 12:18

Some are almost completely bald.......

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oggsfrog · 29/10/2008 12:23

As long as they have somehwere sheltered at night they should be fine.
I've had ones that lived outside all year round and perched on branches at night.
A couple of mine are very bare at moment too - a very late moult.

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ladytophamhatt · 29/10/2008 12:27

this is a plucking problem on top of a moult I think.

one chicken has developed a taste for feathers off every other chicken....

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Bramshott · 29/10/2008 12:32

My friend swears by this stuff

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Callisto · 29/10/2008 13:47

Eat the feather plucker?

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thesockmonsterofdoom · 30/10/2008 15:55

Oh dear are they still bald then.

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