Oh poor naked Flossy

Oh, poor naked Flossy is having a really rough molt. She has literally dropped every one of her feathers! She is practically naked! We have up'd her protein intake. The colder weather is setting in and she is cold and shivering. We do see the new winter feathers coming in on her wings, but it looks like a turkey was slaughtered with all the feathers scattered everywhere!

GiGi on the left, molted some weeks back and has already grown in her new winter feathers quite nicely! While poor Fossy on the right is as naked as a jay bird! If you are wondering how we tell them apart, GiGi has a red head while Flossy has a blue head.

Strutter also molted some weeks ago and his was quite quick. He has beautiful new tail feathers and is showing them off to everyone!

 

Loosing that one special one

 

When someone says "it's just a chicken", they didn't know our sweet "Broken Girl". We lost her this week and boy there is a void in the coop. As a chick, she came to us with deformed feet but that never stopped her. When she went into her broody state, there was no reasoning with her. She was tough, protected her eggs and when she wanted something I would get the look, up and down and you could feel just what she was thinking. 

She lived a very good and old life, she was at least 8 years old and right up to the end would give me the business when collecting eggs. I'm already missing her special soul, it's just not the same without her.